Local governments around the world are formulating different ways to address climate
change. However, the compounding and overlapping vulnerabilities of historically …

Most public health research on the commercial determinants of health (CDOH) to date has
focused on a narrow segment of commercial actors. These actors are generally the …

COVID-19 is proving to be the long awaited 'big one': a pandemic capable of bringing
societies and economies to their knees. There is an urgent need to examine how COVID-19 …

Given the call for societal transformations to foster sustainability transitions, we consider in
what way the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) contributes to a more circular society. We …

Multiple 'green transformations' are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet
Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge …

Those who opt to make history and change the course of events themselves have an
advantage over those who decide to wait passively for the results of the change.(Arizmendi …

A new political moment is underway. Although there are significant differences in how this is
constituted in different places, one manifestation of the new moment is the rise of distinct …

In the current economic crisis, social movements are simultaneously facing two types of
challenges: first, they are confronting institutions which are less able (or willing) to mediate …

Social innovation (SI) has, in the last decade or so, become an important idea and concept
in policy, practice and scholarship surrounding human development. It is often seen as an …

Emerging in the mid-2010s, the Foundational Economy has been heralded as 'a compelling
counter-project against neoliberalism'and 'an alternative pathway…[for] progressive political …