Mass timber construction as an alternative to concrete and steel in the Australia building industry: a PESTEL evaluation of the potential

PD Kremer, MA Symmons - International Wood Products …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The present paper is the first to conceptually assess the viability of mass timber construction
(MTC) as an alternative construction material/method in Australia. It fulfills an identified need …

Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma

N Räthzel, D Uzzell - Global Environmental Change, 2011 - Elsevier
Trade unions are actively engaging with the climate change agenda and formulating climate
change policies. Although governments are placing considerable effort on changing …

Agents of transition or defenders of the status quo? Trade union strategies in green transitions

T Kalt - Journal of industrial relations, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Green transitions create major challenges to union power in carbon-intensive economies as
well as opportunities for the renewal of union power. This research asks why sometimes …

[HTML][HTML] Trade unions' interpretation of a just transition in a fossil fuel economy

HE Normann, SM Tellmann - Environmental innovation and societal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Trade unions have received little attention in sustainability transitions research, despite their
capacity to influence policy decisions. This article presents a study of how key unions in …

[LIBRO][B] Workers and trade unions for climate solidarity: Tackling climate change in a neoliberal world

P Hampton - 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union
engagement with climate change over the last three decades. It offers a rigorous critique of …

The labour–nature relationship: Varieties of labour environmentalism

D Stevis, D Uzzell, N Räthzel - Globalizations, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This special issue is a contribution to environmental labour studies, which aims to
investigate the practices and theories that integrate labour and nature, by focusing on labour …

[LIBRO][B] Just transitions: Promise and contestation

D Stevis - 2023 - cambridge.org
Just transition prompts us to explore a number of important dimensions of Earth System
Governance research, including sustainability transformations, inequality, power and justice …

Climate change and industrial relations: Reflections on an emerging field

F Flanagan, C Goods - Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
What does climate change mean for the field of industrial relations? In this article, we argue
that a meaningful disciplinary response to climate change requires more than simply …

Intermediating climate change: the evolving strategies, interactions and impacts of neglected “climate intermediaries”

P Tobin, FM Farstad, J Tosun - Policy Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Climate change governance systems comprise a wide variety of actors. Here, we introduce
“climate intermediaries” as one potentially influential yet often neglected type of actor …

Moving beyond class: A critical review of labor‐environmental conflicts from the global south

S Satheesh - Sociology Compass, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Popularly referred to as the “Blue‐Green conflicts,” the tensions between labor and
environmental movements have received extensive scholarly attention as it exposes the …