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The politics of green transformations

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posted on 2023-06-08, 22:51 authored by Peter NewellPeter Newell, Ian ScoonesIan Scoones, Melissa Leach
Multiple ‘green transformations’ are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It examines how green transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The role of the state is emphasised, both in terms of the type of incentives required to make green transformations politically feasible and the way states must take a developmental role in financing innovation and technology for green transformations. The book also highlights the role of citizens, as innovators, entrepreneurs, green consumers and members of social movements. Green transformations must be both ‘top-down’, involving elite alliances between states and business, but also ‘bottom up’, pushed by grassroots innovators and entrepreneurs, and part of wider mobilisations among civil society. The chapters in the book draw on international examples to emphasise how contexts matter in shaping pathways to sustainability

History

Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Routledge

Pages

220.0

Place of publication

Abingdon and New York

ISBN

9781138792890

Series

Pathways to Sustainability

Department affiliated with

  • International Relations Publications

Notes

his is an edited book edited by Peter Newell, Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Peter Newell, Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach

Legacy Posted Date

2015-10-20

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