This book focuses on the potential and possibilities for socially
innovative responses to the climate emergency at the local scale.
Climate change has intensified the need for communities to find creative
and meaningful ways to address the sustainability of their environments.
The authors focus on the creative and collaborative ways local- scale
climate action reflects the extra-ordinary measures taken by ordinary
people. This includes critical engagement with the ways in which novel
social practices and partnerships emerge between people, organisations,
institutions, governance arrangements and eco-systems.
The book successfully highlights the transformative power of socially
innovative activities and initiatives in response to the climate crisis;
and critically explores how different individuals and groups undertake
climate action as 'quiet activism' - the embodied acts of collective
disruption, subversion, creativity and care at the local scale.