TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scoones,Ian
AU  - Leach,Melissa
AU  - Newell,Peter
TI  - The politics of green transformations
SN  - 9781138792906 (paperback)
AV  - JA75.8 .P648 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Green movement
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
N2  - "Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It analyses how green transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The book emphasises the role of the state and 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"--
ER  -