Transformative Pathways to Sustainability: Learning Across Disciplines,
Cultures and Contexts
by Pathways Network; Routledge, London, 2021, DOI: 10.4324/9780429331930,
ISBN: 9780429331930.
Abstract: Transformations to sustainability are increasingly the focus of
research and policy discussions around the Sustainable Development Goals.
However, the different roles played transdisciplinary research in
contributing to social transformations across diverse settings have been
neglected in the literature. Transformative Pathways to Sustainability
responds to this gap presenting a set of coherent, theoretically informed
and methodologically innovative experiments from around the world that
offer important insights for this growing field. The book draws on content
and cases from across the ‘Pathways’ Transformative Knowledge Network, an
international group of six regional hubs working on sustainability
challenges in their own local or national contexts. Each of these hubs
reports on their experiences of ‘transformation laboratory’ processes in
the following areas: sustainable agricultural and food systems for healthy
livelihoods, with a focus on sustainable agri-food systems in the UK and
open-source seeds in Argentina; low carbon energy and industrial
transformations, focusing on mobile-enabled solar home systems in Kenya and
social aspects of the green transformation in China; and water and waste
for sustainable cities, looking at Xochimilco wetland in Mexico and Gurgaon
in India. The book combines new empirical data from these processes with a
novel analysis that represents both theoretical and methodological
contributions. It is especially international in its scope, drawing inputs
from North and South, mirroring the universality of the Sustainable
Development Goals. The book is of vital interest to academics, action
researchers and funders, policy makers and civil-society organisations
working on transformations to sustainability. The Open Access version of
this book has been made available under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. The publication is
dedicated to the memory of Dr. Pravin Kushwaha, JNU-TRCSS.
Table of Contents
Section 1 | Introduction
Introduction | Adrian Ely
The ‘Pathways’ transformative knowledge network | Adrian Ely, Anabel
Marin
Section 2 | Emerging themes across the transformative knowledge network
Transformations: Theory, research and action | Adrian Ely
Transdisciplinary methods and T-Labs as transformative spaces for
innovation in social-ecological systems | Laura Pereira, Per Olsson,
Lakshmi Charli-Joseph, Olive Zgambo, Nathan Oxley, Patrick Van Zwanenberg,
J Mario Siqueiros-García, Adrian Ely
Section 3 | Insights from different international contexts
Towards a more sustainable food system in Brighton and Hove, UK | Adrian
Ely, Elise Wach, Rachael Taylor, Ruth Segal, Rachael Durrant
Bioleft: A collaborative, open-source seed breeding initiative for
sustainable agriculture | Anabel Marin, Patrick Van Zwanenberg, Almendra
Cremaschi
Kenya: Making mobile solar energy inclusive | Victoria Chengo, Kennedy
Mbeva, Joanes Atela, Rob rne, David Ockwell, Aschalew Tigabu
China: The economic shock of a green transition in Hebei | Lichao Yang,
Chulin Jiang
Wetlands under pressure: The experience of the Xochimilco T-Lab, Mexico |
Hallie Eakin, Lakshmi Charli-Joseph, Rebecca Shelton, Beatriz Ruizpalacios,
David Manuel-Navarrete, J. Mario Siqueiros-García
Enabling Transformations to Sustainability: Rethinking Urban Water
Management in Gurgaon, India | Dinesh Abrol, Pravin Kushwaha
Section 4 | Conclusion
Reframing sustainability challenges | Fiona Marshall, Patrick Van
Zwanenberg, Hallie Eakin, Lakshmi Charli-Joseph, Adrian Ely, Anabel Marin,
J. Mario Siqueiros-García
Emerging insights and lessons for the future | Adrian Ely, Anabel Marin,
Fiona Marshall, Marina Apgar, Hallie Eakin, Laura Pereira, Lakshmi
Charli-Joseph, J Mario Siqueiros-García, Lichao Yang, Victoria Chengo,
Dinesh Abrol, Pravin Kushwaha, Edward Hackett, David Manuel-Navarrete, Ritu
Priya Mehrotra, Joanes Atela, Kennedy Mbeva, Joel Onyango, Per Olsson
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