The politics of green transformations /

"Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It analyses how green transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The book emph...

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Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Scoones, Ian (Editor), Leach, Melissa (Editor), Newell, Peter (Peter John) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Series:Pathways to sustainability series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It analyses how green transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The book emphasises the role of the state and 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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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