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Chapter 1 -Digital food provisioning in a time of multiple crises: an introduction -- Chapter2 - Online food provisioning services and where to find them: Pipelines, platforms and the rise of dark stores -- Chapter 3 - Sustainable and Purchasing Behavior of Online Food Shoppers: Survey Results from Italy, Ireland, and Germany -- Chapter 4 -Driving the digital and sustainable transition through law: assessing the food consumer's legal toolkit -- Chapter 5 -Infrastructure, impulsivity, and waste. Exploring the (un)sustainable routines of mainstream food shoppers -- Chapter 6 –Making the Consumption of Food Circular: The Karma App and the Re-qualifications of Surplus Food -- Chapter7 -From grassroots to platforms: how digitalization reconfigures learning and engagement with food. Chapter 8-Food, Health and Sustainability: Choice, Care, Alternatives.

How do you turn a tradition of non-cooperation to cooperation? How do you create cooperation in an environment with no tradition of cooperation? The solution to the so-called collaborative problem has been awarded the Nobel Prize, and engaged researchers for over thirty years. While some communities were permeated by widespread distrust, high corruption, distrust of government non-cooperation, the second were characterized by high trust, missed classes by corruption, high tolerance and the spirit of cooperation. While knowledge is high on the characteristics of the two balanced positions, it is the former studies on mechanisms that are in motion when people leave a state of non-cooperation to cooperation. Adapted from the source document.

Examines the intensity & forms of Italian environmental protest, 1988-1997, drawing on an analysis of 328 national-level events, 313 events in Milan, 222 events in Florence, & 168 events in Naples as reported in local newspapers. Protest peaked during the 1988-1990 period & fell of dramatically in 1996/97; possible explanations for the decline are provided, pondering if it was real or a function of changing political conditions & media orientations. Regional variation in the intensity of protest is next considered, finding a concentration in the north. Four major issues around which people mobilized included nature conservation, energy, pollution, urban & industrial claims, & animal welfare. Analysis of forms of protest reveals the overwhelming predominance of pressure over protest actions, which supports claims that the evolution of the Italian environmental movement is part of a broader cycle originating in the 1960s. Variation in mobilizations around different issues is briefly addressed before turning to the profile of environmental organizations involved in protest events; patterns of organizational cooperation are scrutinized, finding no clear trends in networking. Legambiente is seen to be a key environmental organization; media coverage of the issues that Legambiente & other prominent groups is explored, along with the characteristics of movement institutionalization & the notion of "problem ownership." It is concluded that, during this period, Italian environmental protest only partially resembles a sustained & large-scale movement. 10 Tables, 7 Figures. J. Zendejas

Examines the intensity & forms of Italian environmental protest, 1988-1997, drawing on an analysis of 328 national-level events, 313 events in Milan, 222 events in Florence, & 168 events in Naples as reported in local newspapers. Protest peaked during the 1988-1990 period & fell of dramatically in 1996/97; possible explanations for the decline are provided, pondering if it was real or a function of changing political conditions & media orientations. Regional variation in the intensity of protest is next considered, finding a concentration in the north. Four major issues around which people mobilized included nature conservation, energy, pollution, urban & industrial claims, & animal welfare. Analysis of forms of protest reveals the overwhelming predominance of pressure over protest actions, which supports claims that the evolution of the Italian environmental movement is part of a broader cycle originating in the 1960s. Variation in mobilizations around different issues is briefly addressed before turning to the profile of environmental organizations involved in protest events; patterns of organizational cooperation are scrutinized, finding no clear trends in networking. Legambiente is seen to be a key environmental organization; media coverage of the issues that Legambiente & other prominent groups is explored, along with the characteristics of movement institutionalization & the notion of "problem ownership." It is concluded that, during this period, Italian environmental protest only partially resembles a sustained & large-scale movement. 10 Tables, 7 Figures. J. Zendejas

"This volume shines a light on Sustainable Community Movement Organisations (SCMOs), an emergent wave of non-hierarchical, community-based socio-economic movements, with alternative forms of consumption and production very much at their core. Extending beyond traditional ideas of cooperatives and mutualities, the essays in this collection explore new geographies of solidarity practices ranging from forms of horizontal democracy to interurban and transnational networks. The authors uniquely frame these movements within the Deleuzian concept of the 'rhizome', as a meshwork of alternative spaces, paths and trajectories. This connectivity is illustrated in case studies from around the world, ranging from protest movements in response to austerity measures in Southern Europe, to the Buen Vivir movement in the Andes, and Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) in the Caribbean and Canada. Positioning these cases in relation to current theoretical debates on Social Solidarity Economy, the authors specifically address the question of the persistence and the durability of the organizing practices in community economies. This book will be a valuable tool for academics and students of sustainable consumption, environmental policy, social policy, environmental economics, environmental management and sustainability studies more broadly."

Political consumerism has become one of the most promising research fields in social movement and political participation studies. However, most research has focused mainly on the more personalized and less collective version of such forms of action, leaving largely unexplored the nature and dynamic of some new local grassroots organizations (such as the so-called Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale, or Solidarity Purchasing Groups [SPGs] in Italy). The influence of such forms of political participation in contemporary democracies has been scarcely investigated. The aim of this article is to provide an in-depth exploratory case study of SPGs in Italy, which more specifically focuses on the main definitional, organizational, and sociodemographic features of SPG participation. The article shows that the Italian SPGs are locally based hybrid pressure movements that go beyond conventional forms of political consumerism by adopting innovative organizational and participatory tools.