This paper discusses the transformative role of people and the places which they inhabit. It
advocates the richness and multiplicity of actors and understandings to drive sustainable …

Highlights•Place is unbounded and the point of intersection of spatially differentiating,
ordering processes.•Sustainable place-shaping is a transformative capacity.•Transformation …

This article explores social innovation as a tool for the promotion of place-based sustainable
development. The literature highlights the satisfaction of basic needs and situations of crises …

Among scholars in sustainability science, there is an increasing recognition of the potential
of place-based research in the context of transformative change towards sustainability. In …

The eight papers in this Special Feature result from the EU funded SUSPLACE collaborative
programme that aimed to explore the transformative capacity of sustainable place-shaping …

Transformations to sustainability are increasingly the focus of research and policy
discussions around the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the different roles played …

In this chapter we discuss social innovation and sustainable development as two
approaches that can jointly contribute to the formulation of more harmonious human …

How can action research further new research orientations towards sustainability? This
book, empirically situated in the field of upstream public engagement, involving local …

The term sustainable development is often criticized for having lost credibility due to a lack of
clear-cut delineation. The same holds true for education designed to foster sustainable …

To address the challenge of achieving social learning in support of transformative change to
sustainability, this paper develops an analytical framework that applies a social practice …