THE POLITICS OF GREEN
TRANSFORMATIONS
Multiple ‘green transformations’ are required if humanity is to live sustainably
on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes
the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It examines how green
transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of
capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The role of the state
is emphasised, both in terms of the type of incentives required to make green
transformations politically feasible and the way states must take a developmental
role in financing innovation and technology for green transformations. The book
also highlights 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. The chapters in the book draw on international examples to emphasise
how contexts matter in shaping pathways to sustainability
Written by experts in the field, The Politics of Green Transformations will be of
great interest to researchers and students in environmental studies, international
relations, political science, development studies, geography and anthropology, as
well as policymakers and practitioners concerned with sustainability.
Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS),
Sussex, UK and Director of the ESRC STEPS Centre.
Melissa Leach is Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex,
UK.
Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex,
UK.
TRANSFORMATIONS
Multiple ‘green transformations’ are required if humanity is to live sustainably
on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes
the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It examines how green
transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of
capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The role of the state
is emphasised, both in terms of the type of incentives required to make green
transformations politically feasible and the way states must take a developmental
role in financing innovation and technology for green transformations. The book
also highlights 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. The chapters in the book draw on international examples to emphasise
how contexts matter in shaping pathways to sustainability
Written by experts in the field, The Politics of Green Transformations will be of
great interest to researchers and students in environmental studies, international
relations, political science, development studies, geography and anthropology, as
well as policymakers and practitioners concerned with sustainability.
Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS),
Sussex, UK and Director of the ESRC STEPS Centre.
Melissa Leach is Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex,
UK.
Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex,
UK.