Description
Social Innovation and Sustainable Consumption
Research and Action for Societal Transformation
Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption Series
Coordinators: Backhaus Julia, Genus Audley, Lorek Sylvia, Vadovics Edina, Wittmayer Julia
Language: EnglishSubjects for Social Innovation and Sustainable Consumption:
Keywords
Social Innovation Initiatives; Si; societal transformation; Sustainable Consumption; Environmental studies; Transformative Social Innovation; social innovation; Public Administration; energy; Dominant Institutions; food studies; Sustainability Transformation; environmental policy; Social Innovation Processes; environmental sociology; Good Life; Audley Genus; Energy System; Julia M; Wittmayer; Energy Policy; Alex Haxeltine; CE Initiative; Flor Avelino; Sharing Economy; Iris Kunze; Core Mission Statement; Noel Longhurst; Food Assembly; Adina Dumitru; Cohousing Project; Tim O'Riordan; Social Innovation Networks; Harro van Lente; UK Broadsheet Newspaper; René Kemp; Transition Management Approach; Michael Jonas; Practice Theory Perspective; Marcelline Bonneau; Transition Management; François Jégou; CE Project; Keighley McFarland; UK Energy System; Iain Soutar; Practice Theory Approaches; Bnt Bal; Michaela Leitner; Beate Littig; Edina Vadovics; Simon Milton; Philip J; Vergragt; Satoru Mizuguchi; Sylvia Lorek
Publication date: 05-2019
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 12-2017
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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This book showcases strategic policies for and processes of societal transformation, which are required to address the challenge of sustainability. Based on the latest thinking at the interface of social innovation, sustainable consumption and the transformation of society, the book provides:
- in-depth discussions at the nexus of sustainable consumption, social innovation and social transformation, highlighting their significance to sustainability-related policy and practice;
- detailed case studies of social innovation in energy, food, housing and policy which illustrate emerging practice and promising policy, business and civil society interventions; and
- critical reflections and commentaries on the contribution of social innovation to societal transformation.
Bringing together aspiring scholars and leading thinkers on this topic, this book leads to compelling new insights for an international audience into the potential of social innovation for sustainable consumption and the transformation of society. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable consumption, sustainable development, (social) innovation studies and environmental sociology.
Chapter 1 – Introduction: the Nexus of Social Innovation, Sustainable Consumption and Societal Transformation, Julia Backhaus, Audley Genus, and Julia Wittmayer Chapter 2 – Conceptualising the Role of Social Innovation in Sustainability Transformations, Alex Haxeltine, Flor Avelino, Julia Wittmayer, Iris Kunze, Noel Longhurst, Adina Dumitru, and Tim O’ Riordan Chapter 3 – The Idea(l) of a ‘Sustainable Sharing Economy’: Four Social Science Perspectives on Transformative Change, Julia Backhaus, Harro van Lente, and René Kemp Chapter 4 – Societal Transformation, Social Innovations and Sustainable Consumption in an Era of Metamorphosis, Michael Jonas Chapter 5 – Local Authorities and their Development of New Governance Approaches: Distilling Lessons from a Social Innovation Project, Marcelline Bonneau and François Jégou Chapter 6 – Hitting a Policy wall: the Transformative Potential and Limitations of Community Pick-Up Point Schemes, Keighley MacFarland and Julia Wittmayer Chapter 7 – Community Energy as a site for Social Innovation , Iain Soutar Chapter 8 – Community Agriculture and the Narrative Construction of Change, Emese Gulyás and Bálint Balázs Chapter 9 – Towards Sustainable Practices: a Practice-theoretical Case Study of a Cohousing Project, Michaela Leitner and Beate Littig Chapter 10 – The Search for Social Innovations that are within Ecological Limits as well as more Just, Edina Vadovics and Simon Milton Chapter 11 – North-American Perspectives of Societal Transformation, Philip J. Vergragt Chapter 12 – Commentary from a Japanese Perspective: Tapping into Traditions for Transitions and Societal Transformations, Satoru Mizuguchi Chapter 13 - Conclusions: How Social Innovations Become Transformative and Help Increase Sustainability, Edina Vadovics and Sylvia Lorek
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