While the quantity of sustainability governance initiatives and systems has increased
dramatically, crises persist over whether specific governance systems can be trusted as …

This article presents an historical sketch of the insights and applications provided by social
science scholars on environmental governance. The authors begin with a review of the …

This article examines a range of potential causal variables of state legitimacy using a
globally representative set of 72 countries accounting for 83 percent of the world's …

The emergence of the concept of ecosystem services has resulted in a paradigm shift in the
ethical and political foundations of biodiversity conservation, from conserving nature due to …

Basic oppositions between economic growth and environmental protection are well
understood by sociologists, but the state's role in environmental protection and regulation is …

The politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state
acted as a “neutral broker” rather than protecting the common good. In Science and …

ABSTRACT Has the Swedish Climate Policy Framework–including the new Swedish
Climate Act–adopted in June 2017, been conducive to advancing climate mitigation, and if …

The limitations and possibilities of the state in solving societal problems are perennial issues
in the political and policy sciences and increasingly so in studies of environmental politics …

A major focus of social research on mobilizations for environmental justice in the US has
been a cataloguing of the various ways in which citizens' groups are adopting the methods …

The present research aims to investigate the role of states in governing the sustainability
trajectories and decisions of companies and their local communities. Drawing on Dean's …