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 …

This article begins with a review and synthesis of some of the key theories, scholars, case
examples, debates, methods, and (multiple) interpretations of environmental justice (EJ), as …

Economic development, technological innovation, and policy change are especially
prominent factors sha** energy transitions. Therefore explaining energy transitions …

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 …

When and why do governments promote women's rights? Through comparative analysis of
state action in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, this book shows how different women's …

The paper sets out a proposal for bridging and linking three approaches to the analysis of
transitions to sustainable and low-carbon societies: quantitative systems modelling; socio …

Environmental justice is a major movement and organizing discourse in the environmental
politics arena, and both the movement and the idea have had a large influence on the way …

This article examines the limits and potential of the state in orchestrating sustainability
transitions from the standpoint of critical theory on the green state. Two interrelated …

What are the capacities of the state to facilitate a comprehensive sustainability transition? It
is argued that structural barriers akin to an invisible 'glass ceiling'are inhibiting any such …

Concepts of ecological and environmental democracy seek to reconcile two normative
ideals: ensuring environmental sustainability while safeguarding democracy. These ideals …