Rescaling Sustainability Transitions

Maija Halonen is a University Lecturer at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies at the University of Eastern Finland.Moritz Albrecht is an Associate Professor in Environmental Political Geography at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland.Irene Kuhmonen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä.

• Chapter 1. Introduction to rescaling sustainability transitions (Maija Halonen, Moritz Albrecht & Irene Kuhmonen).- Part I: National rescaling.- Chapter 2. (Re)Territorialising policy narratives and their role for novel bioeconomy sectors in the EU (Moritz Albrecht & Oliver Klein).- Chapter 3. Tourism and sustainability transitions: A scalar analysis of agency in Costa Rica (Laura Sariego-Kluge and Diana Morales).- Chapter 4. Energy transition as space making:  Rescaling of accelerated transformations in the context of Estonia (Tarmo Pikner).- Chapter 5. Rescaling Renewable Energy Communities in Portugal: Expert imaginaries of business-as-usual, the empowered citizen and the smart network (Ross Wallace and Susana Batel).- Chapter 6. From centralisation to decentralisation? Transition visions of circular bioeconomy in rural Finland (Irene Kuhmonen, Tuomas Kuhmonen & Annukka Näyhä).- Chapter 7. Grounded Sustainability Transitions:  Unfolding controversy towards a policy implementation in Colombia (Germán A. Quimbayo Ruiz).- Part II : Regional rescaling.- Chapter 8. Exploring ‘Just’ Transitions in Regional Aotearoa New Zealand: Cases of Taranaki and Southland (Sean Connelly, Etienne Nel & Danielle Lomas).- Chapter 9. isaggregating sustainable transitions through power and governance arrangements in municipal enterprises: A case study of the Canmore Community Housing Corporation ( Laura Ryser, Sean Markey, Greg Halseth, Martin Mateus & Lars Hallstrom).- Chapter 10. From Lignite Regions to Transition Labs. Rethinking Regional Politics of Lignite from the Perspective of the “Politics of Scale” (Sören Becker & Matthias Naumann).- Chapter 11. South Africa’s sustainability transition: the case of the Mpumalanga province and its coal-dependent communities (Etienne Nel and Lochner Marais).- Chapter 12. Sustainability transition in peripheral small-scale forest industries: Case studies from Finland and Sweden (Maija Halonen & Linda Lundmark).