Le changement climatique et l'épuisement des ressources provoqueront des crises toujours plus dramatiques si nous ne réagissions pas très rapidement. La bonne nouvelle, c'est que des solutions existent et qu'elles n'ont rien de punitif : elles peuvent au contraire nous permettre de vivre mieux. Engager la transition écologique, ce n'est pas proposer un simple verdissement du système actuel, c'est adopter un nouveau modèle économique et social, rompant avec la dictature du PIB. Un modèle qui renouvelle nos façons de consommer, de produire, de travailler, de vivre ensemble. Qui fait la part belle au plaisir, aux liens, au temps libre. Qui permet et encourage la participation des citoyens. C'est une société plus juste et plus douce qui est ici présentée. Un "mode d'emploi" pour réconcilier le nécessaire et le souhaitable. [4e de couv.]

Dans une société menacée d’effondrements économiques, politiques et sociaux, le revenu de transition écologique est un outil à disposition des politiques publiques pour créer de véritables projets de territoires à la fois résilients et révélateurs d’innovations sociétales. Fondé sur l’hypothèse de la nécessaire alliance du social et de l’écologie et faisant le pari que le travail choisi reste une opportunité à saisir, le revenu de transition écologique s’inscrit dans une filiation historique datant du XIXe siècle. Il constitue un outil de sensibilisation écologique et un levier pour créer les conditions d’employabilité des personnes engagées dans la transition écologique et solidaire. Comment fonctionne ce dispositif ? Quelles sont les conditions pour en bénéficier ? À qui s’adresse-t-il ? Qu’est-ce qu’une coopérative de transition ? Quels sont les territoires pionniers d’expérimentation ? Autant de questions pratiques auxquelles se livre apporte des réponses concrètes.

Reading this book will lead to new insights compelling to an international audience into how cities address the sustainability challenges they face. They do this by not repeating old patterns but by searching for new and innovative methods and instruments based on shared principles of a transitions approach. The book describes the quest of cities on two continents to accelerate and stimulate such a transition to sustainability. The aim of the book is twofold: to provide insights into how cities are addressing this challenge conceptually and practically, and to learn from a comparison of governance strategies in Europe and Asia. The book is informed by transition thinking as it was developed in the last decade in Europe and as it is increasingly being applied in Asia. The analytical framework is based on principles of transition management, which draws on insights from complexity science, sociology, and governance theories. Only recently this approach has been adapted to the urban context, and this book is an opportunity to share these experiences with a wider audience. For scholars this work offers a presentation of recent state-of-the-art theoretical developments in transition governance applied to the context of cities. For urban planners, professionals, and practitioners it offers a framework for understanding ongoing developments as well as methods and instruments for dealing with them. The content is potentially appealing to post-graduate and graduate students of environmental management, policy studies, and urban studies programs.

What steps are needed to make life better and more convivial? The Second Convivialist Manifesto (2020) has presented a short diagnosis of the current crises and sketches of a possible and desirable future. It has been a necessary work of theoretical synthesis, but preserving a viable world also requires passion. It is thus urgent to show what people would gain from a shift to a post-neoliberal and post-growth convivialist future. This volume includes a theoretical debate on convivialism which reflects dystopias and shows the multiple and major obstacles that convivialism will have to face. Mainly, however, the contributors to this volume create sketches of a convivial future and collect accounts of another future world which is attractive for as many as possible.

Faced with the scale and intensity of the ecological crisis, environmental transition is underway, consisting of a first phase of technological mutation, aimed at replacing technologies harmful to the environment with those which have no destructive effects on the earth system and its equilibrium. This book examines the roots of the concept of environmental transition, identifying and characterizing the negative effects of technology on the environmental crisis. We will then identify the technological mutations that have the potential to contribute to environmental transition, and demonstrate how these changes are already forming part of a new emerging "technological system". We will conclude by addressing the question of the limits of technological responses to the environmental crisis, demonstrating the importance of the dimensional factors of human activity and weight of growth in this crisis, thus raising the issue of global reconsideration, with reference to the place and articulation of human activity in the Earth system.

A street-level people’s view of one of the world’s beloved cities, in a stunning debut that blends cutting-edge reporting and sweeping political analysis of a changing Paris “Working-class Paris is still around today, as real as the cobblestones, gray zinc roofs, and dusty railyards cutting through its neighborhoods.” —from the introduction The Paris of popular imagination is lined with cobblestone streets and stylish cafés, a beacon for fashionistas and well-heeled tourists. But French-American journalist Cole Stangler, celebrated for his reporting on Paris and French politics, argues that the beating heart of the City of Light lies elsewhere—in its striving, working-class districts whose residents are being priced out of their hometown today. Paris Is Not Dead explores the past, present, and future of the City of Light through the lens of class conflict, highlighting the outsized role of immigrants in shaping the city’s progressive, cosmopolitan, and open-minded character—at a time when politics nationwide can feel like they’re shifting in the opposite direction. This is the Paris many tourists too often miss: immigrant-heavy districts such as the 18th arrondissement, where crowded street markets still define everyday life. Stangler brings this view of the city to life, combining gripping, street-level reportage, stories of today’s working-class Parisians, recent history, and a sweeping analysis of the larger forces shaping the city. In the tradition of Lucy Sante and Mike Davis, Paris Is Not Dead offers a bottom-up portrait of one of the world’s most vital urban centers—and a call to action to Francophiles and all who care about the future of cities everywhere.