Highlights•Constraining climate change to 1.5 C requires urgent decarbonization.•Questions
arise about the political feasibility of such transformations.•Social justice is an orienting …

This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining
ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long …

In 2015, the UN adopted a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to eradicate
poverty, establish socioeconomic inclusion and protect the environment. Critical voices such …

'Bringing the state back in'to research on comparative, inter-, and trans-national
environmental politics and policy will contribute to better understanding of the limits and …

The European Union (EU) is influential in environmental politics and policy-making across
its 28 member states, around its periphery, and globally. Building on a diverse analytical and …

" Iron Will lays bare the role of extractivist policies and efforts to resist these policies through
a deep ethnographic exploration of globally important iron ore mining in Brazil and India …

The second edition of this popular textbook combines coverage of public policies in different
countries with the conceptual and methodological frameworks for analysing them. This new …

Many policy problems require taking costly action today for future benefits. Examining the
case of climate change, this paper examines how two institutions—electoral rules and …

A framework is presented for thinking about state intervention in developed capitalist
economies in two domains: social policy and environmental policy (and, within that, climate …

Despite the existence of a comprehensive set of environmental regulations, China's
environmental issues continue largely unabated and are increasingly leading to discontent …