Governing Decarbonisation : The State and the New Politics of Climate Change
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Summary, in Swedish
Popular Abstract in English
The new climate politics of decarbonisation address the prospects for moving society away from its current dependence on fossil carbon energy. In this compilation dissertation, Hildingsson explores the role of the state as a critical site for progressive climate action, and examines its capacity to govern decarbonisation by transforming systems, structures and practices that generate carbon emissions. Based on insights from the development of climate governance arrangements and institutional conditions for public policy in Sweden, Hildingsson proposes that the modern (environmental) state holds untapped capacities to govern decarbonisation. These capacities can be progressively explored to advance and scale up the efforts to reorient societal development. Thus, a decarbonising state can be made more actively engaged in steering and enabling the processes of low-carbon transitions, and in developing new ways for orchestrating a wide range of low-carbon initiatives and developments.
The new climate politics of decarbonisation address the prospects for moving society away from its current dependence on fossil carbon energy. In this compilation dissertation, Hildingsson explores the role of the state as a critical site for progressive climate action, and examines its capacity to govern decarbonisation by transforming systems, structures and practices that generate carbon emissions. Based on insights from the development of climate governance arrangements and institutional conditions for public policy in Sweden, Hildingsson proposes that the modern (environmental) state holds untapped capacities to govern decarbonisation. These capacities can be progressively explored to advance and scale up the efforts to reorient societal development. Thus, a decarbonising state can be made more actively engaged in steering and enabling the processes of low-carbon transitions, and in developing new ways for orchestrating a wide range of low-carbon initiatives and developments.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2014
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Lund Political Studies
Issue
172
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
Lund University
Ämne
- Political Science
Nyckelord
- climate politics
- the environmental state
- decarbonisation
- low-carbon transition
- energy transformation
- authoritative steering
- enabling
- orchestrating
- Sweden
Aktiv
Published
Projekt
- Governing transitions towards Low-Carbon Energy and Transport Systems for 2050
Forskningsgrupp
- Miljöpolitik
Handledare
- Annica Kronsell
- Johannes Stripple
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0460-0037
- ISBN: 978-91-7623-182-1
- ISBN: 978-91-7623-181-4
Försvarsdatum
5 december 2014
Försvarstid
10:15
Försvarsplats
Edens hörsal, Paradisgata 5 H, Lund
Opponent
- James Meadowcroft (Professor)