Theorising transition -- Transitions: social and natural science debates -- Reconceptualising transition: the complexity of transitory systems -- Productivist agriculture -- Post-productivist agriculture -- Post-productivism or non-productivism? -- Contemporary conceptualisations of multifunctionality -- (Re)conceptualising multifunctionality -- Multifunctional agricultural transitions
Summary
In a time of great agricultural and rural change, the notion of 'multifunctionality' has remained under-theorized and poorly linked to the debates in the social sciences. This book analyses the extent to which the proposed transition towards post-productivist agriculture holds up to scientific scrutiny, and proposes a new transition theory
