The Politics of Transition

Amy Burnett is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research (CEEDR), Middlesex University Business School, UK, and a member of the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) network. She is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work focuses on the role of civil society groups, social enterprises and networks in promoting innovative and sustainable development in the context of planning and regeneration, policy influence and organisational design.
 

Introduction: Research summary: sustainability transitions in times of uncertaintly.- 1:  Transition and the New Economy: a global movement for relocalisation and the Commons.- 2: Planning Beyond the Mainstream.- 3: Placemaking - identity and sustainabilty transitions in a planning context.- 4: Localism and Neighbourhood Planning - tools of placemaking transitions?.- 5: Findings: Frome - context to 'The Home of Localism'.- 6: Discussion: planning for transition in a post-Brexit political landscape.