Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions

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1. Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems

   Edited by Jacqueline Broerse, John Grin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions

   Over the past decades, a series of reform initiatives have been going through health systems of advanced welfare states, including the control of cost development, the tenability of health systems in globalizing economies, dissatisfaction about quality of treatment or quality of life, and the...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Governing the Energy Transition

   Reality, Illusion or Necessity?

   Edited by Geert Verbong, Derk Loorbach

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions

   The Energy Transition, the inevitable shift away from cheap, centralized, largely fossil-based energy systems, is one of the core challenges of our time. This book provides a coherent and novel insight into the nature of this challenge and possible strategies to accelerate and guide such...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Food Practices in Transition

   Changing Food Consumption, Retail and Production in the Age of Reflexive Modernity

   Edited by Gert Spaargaren, Peter Oosterveer, Anne Loeber

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions

   This edited volume presents and reflects upon empirical evidence of ‘sustainability’-induced and -related transition in food practices. The material collected in the various chapters contributes to our understanding of the ways in which ideas and preferences, sociotechnological developments and...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
4. Automobility in Transition?

   A Socio-Technical Analysis of Sustainable Transport

   Edited by Frank W. Geels, René Kemp, Geoff Dudley, Glenn Lyons

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions

   Is the automobility regime experiencing a transition towards sustainability? To answer that question, this book investigates stability and change in contemporary transport systems. It makes a socio-technical analysis of transport systems, exploring the strategies and beliefs of crucial actors...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
5. Transitions to Sustainable Development

   New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change

   By John Grin, Jan Rotmans, Johan Schot

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions

   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...

   Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge