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Contributors

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Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Socio-technical transitions in farming: key concepts

3 Understanding the diversity of European rural areas

4 Utilizing the multi-level perspective in empirical field research: methodological considerations

5 Lifestyle farming: countryside consumption and transition towards new farming models

6 More than just a factor in transition processes? The role of collaboration in agriculture

7 High nature value farming: environmental practices for rural sustainability

8 Transition processes and natural resource management

9 On-farm renewable energy: a ‘classic case’ of technological transition

10 ‘The missing actor’: alternative agri-food networks and the resistance of key regime actors

11 Local quality and certification schemes as new forms of governance in sustainability transitions

12 Transdisciplinarity in deriving sustainability pathways for agriculture

13 Conceptual insights derived from case studies on ‘emerging transitions’ in farming

14 Conclusions

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