The Political Prospects of a Sustainability Transformation - Couverture souple

 
9780367676728: The Political Prospects of a Sustainability Transformation
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ISBN 10 : 0367676729 ISBN 13 : 9780367676728
Editeur : Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Half a century ago, many democratic states started to respond to environmental pressures that had arisen in the wake of rapid industrialization. They set up environmental ministries and agencies and issued legislation to control the pollution of air and water and to manage industrial processes, wastes and toxic substances. This was the birth of the environmental state. With planetary ecological challenges like climate change spiraling out of control and dwarfing the environmental state's classical tasks of environmental management, new questions about the transformative capacities of the state are becoming acute today. How large is the state's capability to transform enhanced industrial societies into sustainable post-carbon societies? Do its new environmental functions empower the state to prioritise ecological goals over economic growth? Can the state's environmental management capabilities be radicalised to turn it into a 'sustainability state'? Can democracies be enhanced to enlarge the state's transformative capacities?

The Political Prospects of a Sustainability Transformation: Moving Beyond the Environmental State explores these and other questions from a variety of theoretical and empirical angles, covering the fields of democratic theory, theories of the state, political economy, political sociology, rhetoric and political philosophy.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Environmental Politics.

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À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Hausknost is Assistant Professor in Politics at the Institute of Social Change and Sustainability at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.

Marit Hammond is Lecturer in Politics at the School of Social, Political and Global Studies, Keele University, UK.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0367676729
ISBN 13 
9780367676728
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Éditeur
Hausknost Daniel, Hammond Marit
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780367676711: The Political Prospects of a Sustainability Transformation: Moving Beyond the Environmental State

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ISBN 10 :  0367676710 ISBN 13 :  9780367676711
Editeur : Routledge, 2021
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