Agroecological transitions, between determinist and open-ended visions / / Claire Lamine, [and three others], editors.

• Superior document: EcoPolis
• TeilnehmendeR: Lamine, Claire,
• Place / Publishing House: Bruxelles : : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: French
• Series: EcoPolis.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 pages).
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Claire Lamine, [and three others], editors.

Debates around agroecology most often focus on the depth and radicality of the change and relate to different visions of agroecology, which tends to eclipse the ontological relationships of actors (or researchers) to the very 'change process' itself. This book is an endeavor to explicate relationships to change in agroecological transitions, referring to two contrasting and ideal-typical ontological relationships to change, the determinist perspective and the open-ended perspective. These conceptions or interpretations of the change process are based respectively on whether objectives and means are predetermined, or defi ned during the change process and while accounting for the uncertainty and complexity of mechanisms of change as well as for the diversity of actors'visions. Many diverse cases of agroecological transitions are discussed in this book, in order to highlight the fact that these perspectives are not always exclusive in transition process but that they can be articulated successively or combined complementarily, in different ways - thus reinforcing the potential diversity of transition pathways.