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Introduction to Rescaling Sustainability Transitions (2025)
Halonen, M., Albrecht, M., & Kuhmonen, I. (2025). Introduction to Rescaling Sustainability Transitions. In M. Halonen, M. Albrecht, & I. Kuhmonen (Eds.), Rescaling Sustainability Transitions : Unfolding the Spatialities of Power Relations, Governance Arrangements, and Socio-Economic Systems (pp. 1-13). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69918-4_1
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Halonen, Maija; Albrecht, Moritz; Kuhmonen, Irene
Parent publication: Rescaling Sustainability Transitions : Unfolding the Spatialities of Power Relations, Governance Arrangements, and Socio-Economic Systems
Parent publication editors: Halonen, Maija; Albrecht, Moritz; Kuhmonen, Irene
ISBN: 978-3-031-69917-7
eISBN: 978-3-031-69918-4
Publication year: 2025
Publication date: 29/10/2024
Pages range: 1-13
Number of pages in the book: 299
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication: Cham
Publication country: Switzerland
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69918-4_1
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Open Access channel
Abstract
Sustainability transitions are employed as a key conceptual term in science, politics and societal debate. While often employed as an umbrella term for policy programmes aiming for a more environmentally and socially conscious shift of societal conduct, the understanding of its variegated processes has sparked an array of epistemological frameworks and approaches. Much research is criticised for an insensitivity to the socio-spatial complexities and multi-scalar relations of becoming, and the domination of large-scale, centralised and urban-oriented socio-economic development pathways calls for a rescaling of sustainability transitions with small-scale, localised and rural approaches. The rescaling of sustainability transitions in this sense plays out in multiple forms and rather than confining research to a streamlined conceptual frame, we see value in drawing on partially aligned, yet diverse accounts. Through engagement with different shades of rescaling, this book aims at a deeper, more diverse understanding of how sustainability transitions manifest in different spatial contexts, are framed by multi-scalar and continuously shifting socio-spatial relations and the role of (contested) spatial imaginaries on the capacities for ‘rescaled’ future trajectories.
Keywords: sustainable development; green transition
Free keywords: sustainability transitions; rescaling; socio-spatial relations
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Ministry reporting: Yes
VIRTA submission year: 2024
Preliminary JUFO rating: 2
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