Welfare systems across the OECD face many combined challenges, with rising inequality,
demographic changes and environmental crises likely to drive up welfare demand in the …

The concepts of sustainable development (SD) and sustainable communities (SCs) are
firmly on policy agendas. Conceptual clarity is essential for the selection of high‐quality …

While the notion of degrowth has gained traction in recent times, scholarship on degrowth
transformations has yet to provide a conceptualisation that captures key attributes of what …

Coral reefs underpin a range of ecosystem goods and services that contribute to the well‐
being of millions of people. However, tropical coral reefs in the Anthropocene are likely to be …

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 …

Degrowth scholars and activists have convincingly argued that degrowth in developed
nations will need to be part of a global effort to tackle climate change, and to preserve the …

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 …

Climate change mitigation research is fundamentally motivated by the preservation of
human lives and the environmental conditions which enable them. However, the field has to …

What would it take for a degrowth paradigm shift to take place? Drawing on contemporary
critical political economy scholarship, this article identifies four prerequisites for socio …

The history of welfare states is tightly linked to industrial capitalism and a mode of regulation
where production and consumption patterns increased in parallel. This has gone hand in …