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Grassroots Environmentalism and Low-Carbon Cities

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Grassroots environmentalism has emerged as a key driver for low-carbon cities. This chapter describes and analyses three cases of grassroots environmentalism: the transition town movement, the ecovillage movement, and community renewable energy initiatives. It shows that, rather than business-as-usual, advocates of grassroots environmentalism envision a fundamental transformation of everyday practices based on community building, resilience, economic localisation, and dematerialisation.

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    Kevin Lo

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  1. School of Environment, Resources and Development, and Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand

    Shobhakar Dhakal

  2. School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Matthias Ruth

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Lo, K. (2017). Grassroots Environmentalism and Low-Carbon Cities. In: Dhakal, S., Ruth, M. (eds) Creating Low Carbon Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49730-3_5

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