This book draws upon diverse approaches and understandings of sustainability transformations, social transitions and environmental accountabilities. It presents case studies that highlight real-world consequences of changing ideas about how best to achieve effective and durable sustainability transformations and examines how environmental accountabilities and social transitions influence sustainability transformations. Each chapter provides insights regarding how new knowledge and perspectives matter for whether, when, and how people, governments, corporations and international organisations seek and pursue solutions to social-ecological challenges and sustainability dilemmas. It pays sustained attention to whether and how understandings and applications of accountability can improve international sustainability transformations. The chapters presented in this book consider some pressing questions concerning social transitions and environmental accountabilities: how can they contribute to sustainability transformations, how do they influence the scalability of sustainability transformations, and, how can such sustainability transformations become durable?

Multi-disciplinary focus on sustainability transformations social transitions and environmental accountabilities Integrated case studies of real world consequences of ideas about sustainability New research of dynamics between social transitions environmental accountabilities and sustainability transformations

Autorentext

Beth Edmondson is an independent researcher based in Australia. Her work focuses on international responses to global climate change, the possibilities for order in the international political system, the nature of sovereignty and the scope of international law in constructing governmental capacities.

Inhalt

1. Sustainability transformations, social transitions and environmental accountabilities: past and present entanglement.- 2. Evaluating Transformation Means Transforming Evaluation.- 3. Climate ethics in carbon footprints.- 4. Nature, Democracy, and Sustainable Urban Transformations.- 5. Sustainability transformations and environmental accountability.- 6. Accountable solar energy transitions in financially constrained contexts.- 7. Building socio-environmental resilience.- 8. Accountable environmental outcomes: collaborative governance and sustainability transformations.- 9. Environmental stewardship for sustainability transformations.- 10. Tackling the environmental and climate footprint of food systems: How transformative is the EU's Farm to Fork Strategy? - 11. Just Transitions in the Context of Urgent Climate Action .- 12. Sustainability transformations, social transitions and environmental accountabilities: emerging opportunities.