Title: Transitions to Sustainable Development: New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change (Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415898048
ISBN 13: 9780415898041
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Good

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Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing awareness of the risks and realities of climate change, and the energy and food crises. This sense of urgency includes an awareness that our entire social system is in need of fundamental transformation. But like the earlier transition between the 1750's and 1890's from a pre-modern to a modern industrial society, this second transition is also a contested one. Sustainable development is only one of many options. This book addresses the issue on how to understand the dynamics and governance of the second transition dynamics in order to ensure sustainable development. It will be necessary reading for students and scholars with an interest in sustainable development and long-term transformative change.

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John Grin is professor in policy sciences at the Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam. He is scientific director of the Amsterdam School of Social Science Research (ASSR), in which some 160 political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists cooperate in an interdisciplinary research programme.

Jan Rotmans is one of the founders of Integrated Assessment (IA), and has outstanding experience in IA modeling, scenario-building, uncertainty management and transition management. Since 2004 he has been a full professor in Transitions and Transition Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where he founded the DRIFT-institute: Dutch Research Institute For Transitions. He was vice-president of The Integrated Assessment Society (TIAS), and founder and director of the Dutch Knowledge Network on System Innovations and Transitions (KSI) and co-founder of the Urgenda Foundation. He is currently advisor of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative (RCI) and of the Rotterdam Stadshavens.

Johan Schot is professor in social history of technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is research director of the Foundation for the History of Technology, and of the Foundation for System Innovation and Transitions towards Sustainable Development. He is a fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute for Social and Economic history, and co-founder and chairing (with Ruth Oldenziel) the Tensions of Europe Collaborative Network and Research Program.

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