Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sustainable societies : committed people in supportive conditions / Laura Henn and Florian G. Kaiser -- 'It has to be reasonable' : pragmatic ways of living sustainably in Danish eco-communities / Anette Hi̜te Hansen -- Stronger together : how Danish environmental communities influence behavioural and societal changes / Quentin Gausset -- Are vegetables political? : the traces of the Copenhagen Food Coop / Jens Hoff and Mine Islar -- Rethinking environmentalism in a 'ruined' world : lessons from the permaculture movement / Laura Centemeri -- Urban green communities : towards a pragmatic sociology of civic commonality in sustainable city-making / Anette Gravgaard Christensen, Jakob Laage-Thomsen and Anders Blok -- The stop wasting food movement as a community of potentialities / Simon Lex and Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen -- There was no 'there' there any more : an Australian story about knowledge, power and resistance / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Labour organising against climate change : the case of fracking in the UK / Vivian Price -- Why does everyone think cities can save the planet? / Hillary Angelo and David Wachsmuth -- Imagining the net zero emissions city : urban climate governance in the city of Melbourne, Australia / Stephen Pollard -- Governing the transnational : exploring the governance tools of 100 resilient cities / Anne Bach Nielsen -- Sustainability, democracy and the techno-human future / Clark A. Miller.

"This book argues that there is no way to make progress in building a sustainable future without extensive participation of non-state actors. The volume explores the contribution of non-state actors to a sustainable transition, starting with citizens and communities of different kinds and ending with cities and city-networks. The authors analyse social, cultural, political and economic drivers and barriers for this transition, from individual behaviour to structural restraints, and investigate interplay between the two. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies from the UK, Australia, Germany, Italy and Denmark, and a number of comparative case studies, the volume provides an empirically and theoretically robust argument that highlights the need to develop, widen and scale up collective action and community-based engagement if the transition to sustainability is to be successful. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, sustainability and environmental policy"-- Provided by publisher.

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