#environmentalstate

Delivered a lecture on the #environmentalstate to masters’ students @uclgeography.bsky.social, with the provocation: is the ‘environmental state’ incoherent, useless, possible or needed, as a concept and a practice? Or, as @replacethestate.bsky.social argues, should the state be replaced altogether?

Structural limitations of the decarbonization state - Nature Climate Change The implementation gap between national climate targets and actual policies has been seen as a main barrier for decarbonization. Here researchers show it is rooted in the structural limitation of stat...

Might be a useful companion piece to @ulrichbrand.bsky.social and co-authors recent, excellent article in Nature Climate Change: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... I think we largely agree, but we see more scope for bureaucratic agency to overcome the structural limitations of the #environmentalstate.