Crisis, transformation, and agency: Why are people going back-to-the-land in Greece?

K Benessaiah, H Eakin - Sustainability Science, 2021 - Springer
Transformations are fundamentally about agency: human intention, motivation, and power to
influence and to resist. Most studies focus on deliberate system-level transformations …

Theorising the role of crisis for transformative adaptation

W Novalia, S Malekpour - Environmental science & policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Crisis as a result of global environmental change, such as extreme floods, droughts,
bushfires, and planetary health issues such as pandemic, is becoming more common …

The economic crisis as a game changer? Exploring the role of social construction in sustainability transitions

D Loorbach, F Avelino, A Haxeltine, JM Wittmayer… - Ecology and …, 2016 - JSTOR
Continuing economic turbulence has fuelled debates about social and political reform as
much as it has stimulated actions and initiatives aimed at a more fundamental transition of …

Linking transitions to sustainability: A study of the societal effects of transition management

N Schäpke, I Omann, JM Wittmayer… - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
Sustainability transitions as processes of fundamental change in societal systems are open-
ended, nonlinear and uncertain. Respective research and governance approaches, eg …

Stories of transformation: a cross-country focus group study on sustainable development and societal change

V Wibeck, BO Linnér, M Alves, T Asplund, A Bohman… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Societal transformation is one of the most topical concepts in sustainability research and
policy-making. Used in many ways, it indicates that nonlinear systematic changes are …

Drivers of sustainability transformations: leverage points, contexts and conjunctures

BO Linnér, V Wibeck - Sustainability science, 2021 - Springer
While increasing hopes are being attached to deliberate societal transformative change to
achieve the targets of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, questions remain about …

Reconnecting to nature amidst crisis: harnessing capacities and mobilities for livelihood and land transformations in the Greek back-to-the-land trend

K Benessaiah - Journal of Rural Studies, 2021 - Elsevier
The 2008 Greek crisis has resulted in unexpected social-ecological transformations,
including a back-to-the-land trend whereby people seek to reconnect to land-based …

The role of crises in transformative change towards sustainability

C Pahl-Wostl, ON Odume, G Scholz… - Ecosystems and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Path-breaking transformative change is needed in human-environment relations to move
towards more sustainable development trajectories at local, national and global scales …

[图书][B] Sustainability transformations across societies: Agents and drivers across societies

BO Linnér, V Wibeck - 2019 - books.google.com
Societal transformations are needed across the globe in light of pressing environmental
issues. This need to transform is increasingly acknowledged in policy, planning, academic …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the governance and politics of transformations towards sustainability

J Patterson, K Schulz, J Vervoort, S Van Der Hel… - … Innovation and Societal …, 2017 - Elsevier
The notion of 'transformations towards sustainability'takes an increasingly central position in
global sustainability research and policy discourse in recent years. Governance and politics …