Pathways, Transitions and Backcasting for low-carbon and sustainable lifestyles: Introduction and overview

Pathways, Transitions and Backcasting for low-carbon and sustainable lifestyles: Introduction and overview

Quist, J.N.
Wittmayer, J.
Umpfenbach, K.
Bauler, T.
Bach, M.

Technology, Policy and Management

Engineering Systems and Services

2013-10-07

On 7-8 October, the InContext project, in collaboration with the Low Carbon at Work and the CRISP projects and SCORAI Europe, convened a two-day workshop on Pathways, Transitions, Backacasting for sustainable and low-carbon lifestyles.Workshop proceedings have just become available as SCORAI workshop proceedings on the SCORAI website at http://scorai.org/rotterdam-workshop-2013/ . The workshop brought together a range of multi-disciplinary contributions and perspectives on pathways, transitions and participatory methods for low-carbon and sustainable consumption and communities, involving researchers, action researchers and practitioners. It addressed multiple scales ranging from individual change and small local alternative practices to large-scale transitions, as well as a range of participatory methods and cases for creating visions, scenarios and pathways. It highlighted new approaches that may address some of the issues related to behavioural approaches, existing local approaches, and green innovation oriented approaches in sustainable consumption and local sustainability. In this way, it contributes to the path set by the SCORE! Project and the aims of the SCORAI network. The workshop not only included dissemination and exchange of state-of-the art academic thinking and results, but also facilitated both implementation-oriented and conceptual discussions.

pathways
transitions
backcasting
sustainable lifestyles
sustainable consumption

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Proceedings of SCORAI Europe & InContext Workshop, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 7-8 October 2013; Sustainable Consumption Transitions Series, Issue 3

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