Social Innovation and Sustainable Consumption (eBook, ePUB)

Research and Action for Societal Transformation
Redaktion: Backhaus, Julia; Wittmayer, Julia; Vadovics, Edina; Lorek, Sylvia; Genus, Audley

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351782340
• Artikelnr.: 50402524

Autorenporträt

Julia Backhaus, Edina Vadovics

Inhaltsangabe

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