Participatory Networks and the Environment

<p>Seeking innovative answers to global sustainability challenges has become an urgent need with the onslaught of environmental and ecological degradation that surrounds us today. More than ever there is a need to carve new ways for citizens and different industries and institutions to unite - to cooperate communicate and collaborate to address growing global sustainability concerns.</p><p></p><p>This book examines one such global collaboration called The BGreen Project (BGreen): a transnational participatory action research project that spans the United States and Bangladesh with the aim of addressing environmental issues via academic-community engagement. By analysing and unpacking the architecture of BGreen Hasan teases out the key factors that are required for the continued momentum of environmentally focused academic-community partnership projects in order to present a workable model that could be applied elsewhere. This model is based around a unique conceptual framework developed by the author - transnational participatory networks - which is drawn from participatory action research and actor network theory with the specific aim of addressing the common challenge of building evolving stable and sustainable networks. </p><p></p><p>This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental communication citizen participation environmental politics environmental sociology and sustainable development.</p>