This book focuses on understanding farming transition pathways towards sustainability, using case studies from Europe. It assesses the utility of the multi-level perspective in transition theory for addressing contemporary issues and identifies future research needs, making it an essential read for researchers of rural or agricultural change.
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| Contributors |
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| Glossary |
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| Acknowledgements |
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2 Socio-technical transitions in farming: key concepts |
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3 Understanding the diversity of European rural areas |
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4 Utilizing the multi-level perspective in empirical field research: methodological considerations |
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5 Lifestyle farming: countryside consumption and transition towards new farming models |
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6 More than just a factor in transition processes? The role of collaboration in agriculture |
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7 High nature value farming: environmental practices for rural sustainability |
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8 Transition processes and natural resource management |
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9 On-farm renewable energy: a 'classic case' of technological transition |
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10 'The missing actor': alternative agri-food networks and the resistance of key regime actors |
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11 Local quality and certification schemes as new forms of governance in sustainability transitions |
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12 Transdisciplinarity in deriving sustainability pathways for agriculture |
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13 Conceptual insights derived from case studies on 'emerging transitions' in farming |
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Lee-Ann Sutherland, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK Ika Darnhofer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria Geoff Wilson, University of Plymouth, UK Lukas Zagata, Czech University of Agriculture, Czech Republic
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