This book explores how the State can play a role as an enabler of citizen-led social innovations, to accelerate the shift to viable sustainable and socially just lifestyles.

Olivier De Schutter is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. De Schutter previous served as Secretary General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, a mandate which he fulfilled between 2008 and 2014. He is also a Professor of Law at UCLouvain and at SciencesPo, France, and is a member of the Global Law School Faculty at New York University, USA. He is the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Food as a Commons (2018).

Tom Dedeurwaerdere is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He is director of the research unit BIOGOV and co-founder of the Open partnership research on Ecological and Social Transition. He is the author of Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability (2014).

1. The dusk of the consumer society and the role of social innovation 2. Obstructing myths 3. How social innovations relate to societal transformation: four scenarios 4. The new activism 5. Enabling societal transformation without the myths 6. The missing Sustainable Development Goal: enabling social innovations 7. The state as enabler of social innovations