Many democracies find it difficult to act swiftly on problems such as climate change and
biodiversity loss. This is reflected in long-standing debates in research and policy about …

Coordinating and integrating different policies and public sector organizations is a major
challenge for practitioners and a continuing topic of interest for researchers. This Viewpoint …

'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 limits of the environmental state in the context of the provision of economic growth are
addressed by applying materialist state theory, state-rescaling approaches and the …

Growth-dependent welfare states contribute to climate emergency. The ecological
economics, degrowth, and sustainable welfare literatures demonstrate that to re-embed …

Social policy developed as a research field and academic discipline to ensure protection
from social risks in the era of emerging capitalism and industrialization. While welfare states …

This article makes two contributions to the COVID-related green recovery literature, which is
dominated by optimistic and speculative opportunity narratives. Mobilising insights from …

Climate change is arguably the single most important political issue in the world today. As
yet, however, there has been little research on the relationship between climate change and …

While the social consequences of environmental policies are extensively evaluated in
sustainability research, few studies exist on the ecological impact of social benefits and the …

The emerging concept of sustainable welfare attempts to integrate environmental
sustainability and social welfare research. Oriented at a mid-term re-embedding of Western …