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Einband - fest (Hardcover). Condición: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. 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, Po. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 210 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…