Authors
Niki Frantzeskaki, Adina Dumitru, Isabelle Anguelovski, Flor Avelino, Matthew Bach, Benjamin Best, Constanze Binder, Jake Barnes, Giuseppe Carrus, Markus Egermann, Alex Haxeltine, Michele-Lee Moore, Ricardo Garcia Mira, Derk Loorbach, David Uzzell, Ines Omann, Per Olsson, Giorgia Silvestri, Richard Stedman, Julia Wittmayer, Rachel Durrant, Felix Rauschmayer
Publication date
2016/10/1
Source
Current opinion in environmental sustainability
Volume
22
Pages
41-50
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Civil society plays different roles in urban sustainability transitions beyond civil advocacy.
- Civil society is increasingly recognized as a cog for sustainability transitions.
- Civil society is an innovator and a self-servicing actor of social needs.
- Marketisation of civil society organizations contracts their missions and value propositions.
- Civil society activities can (unintentionally) reinforce an uneven neoliberalism.
Understanding the diversifying role of civil society in Europe’s sustainability pathway is a valid proposition both scientifically and socially. Civil society organisations already play a significant role in the reality of cities, what remains to be explored is the question: what is the role of civil society in the future sustainability of European cities? We first examine the novelty of new forms of civil society organization based on a thorough review of recent case studies of civil society initiatives for sustainable transitions …
Scholar articles
N Frantzeskaki, A Dumitru, I Anguelovski, F Avelino… - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2016