The failure of recent international negotiations to progress global action on climate change has shifted attention to the emergence of grassroots sustainability initiatives. These civil society networks display the potential to implement social innovation and change processes from the ‘bottom up’. Recent scholarship has sought to theorise grassroots community-based low carbon practices in terms of their sustainability transition potential. However there are few empirical examples that demonstrate the factors for success of community-based social innovations in achieving more widespread adoption outside of their local, sustainability ‘niche’.
1. Introduction 2. The Social Construction of Climate Change 3. Individualization of Responsibility and the Politics of Behaviour Change 4.Rise of the Grassroots 5. People Like Me: The Role of Agency in Voluntary Climate Change Action 6. Social Transitions from the Local to the Global 7. Future Pathways for Community Action on Climate Change
Biography
Jennifer Kent is an Honorary Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney and Senior Environmental Officer at the Green Living Centre, a community sustainability resource center in Sydney, Australia.
"This is a book that offers a useful insight into the experience and characteristics of Australian CAGs, and some food for thought on possible theoretical developments in the study of community action and climate change." – Giuseppe Feola, University of Reading, UK
