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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 editorsHalonen, Maija; Albrecht, Moritz; Kuhmonen, Irene

Parent publicationRescaling Sustainability Transitions : Unfolding the Spatialities of Power Relations, Governance Arrangements, and Socio-Economic Systems

Parent publication editorsHalonen, Maija; Albrecht, Moritz; Kuhmonen, Irene

ISBN978-3-031-69917-7

eISBN978-3-031-69918-4

Publication year2025

Publication date29/10/2024

Pages range1-13

Number of pages in the book299

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

Place of PublicationCham

Publication countrySwitzerland

Publication languageEnglish

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69918-4_1

Publication open accessOpenly available

Publication channel open accessOpen 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.


Keywordssustainable developmentgreen transition

Free keywordssustainability transitions; rescaling; socio-spatial relations


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Ministry reportingYes

VIRTA submission year2024

Preliminary JUFO rating2


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