Urban Sustainability Transitions

This book provides new insights into how sustainability transitions unfold in different types of cities across the world and explores possible strategies for governing urban transitions, emphasizing the co-evolution of material and institutional transformations in socio-technical and socio-ecological systems. With case studies of mega-cities such as Tokyo, New York, and Adelaide, medium-sized cities such as Stockholm, Cape Town, Portland, and nonmetropolitan cities such as Ghent and Brighton, the book provides an opportunity to reflect upon the comparability and transferability of theoretical/conceptual constructs and governance approaches across geographical contexts.