Agents and Drivers across Societies
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Köp båda 2 för 731 krDrawing on concepts in political economy, political ecology, justice theory, and critical development studies, the authors offer the first comprehensive, systematic exploration of the ways in which adaptation projects can produce unintended, undes...
'This deeply researched project, produced by two Swedish professors of environmental change, extracts the meanings of sustainability transformation from national and international policy documents, and completes the portrait through analysis of vivid focus group interactions from sites in Cabo Verde, Guangzhou (China), Fiji, Sweden, and Boulder (US) ... Linnr and Wibeck (both, Linkping Univ.) conclude that strong, inclusive, and transparent institutions are essential for pursuing the path forward. The book includes an excellent bibliography, and will benefit advanced students and their instructors in international relations, public policy, and environmental studies.' D. B. Robertson, Choice
Bjrn-Ola Linnr is Professor of Environmental Change atLinkpings Universitet, Sweden. He leads internationally recognized research on transnational climate governance and geopolitics of sustainability transformations. He has long experience as advisor in international climate governance and sustainable development research policy. He is author of The Return of Malthus(2003) andco-author of The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation (2015). Victoria Wibeck is Professor of Environmental Change at Linkpings Universitet, Sweden. Her research focuses on communication studies. She is a recognized authority on sense-making of complex sustainability challenges, social representations of climate change, and communicative aspects of environmental management by objectives. Wibeck has internationally unique expertise in methodology for cross-country focus group research.
Part I. Making Sense of Transformations: 1. How do we change the world?; 2. Sense-making analysis; 3. How societies change: theories of transformation; Part II. Varieties of Transformations to Sustainability: 4. Global arenas of transformations; 5. Localizing transformations; 6. Transformation narratives; Part III. Manoeuvring in a Multi-Transformational World: 7. Governing transformations; 8. Our transforming world; References; Index.