Max Koch
FD och habilitation i sociologi från Freie Universität Berlin | Professor
The state in the transformation to a sustainable postgrowth economy
Författare
Summary, in English
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 degrowth/postgrowth literature. I compare state roles in a capitalist growth economy and in a postgrowth economy geared towards bio-physical parameters such as matter and energy throughput and the provision of ‘sustainable welfare’. In both cases state roles are analysed in relation to the economy, welfare, and the environment, as well as state spatiality. Finally, I address the state in a transition from a growth economy to a sustainable postgrowth economy. I argue that materialist state and sustainable welfare theories are capable of informing state-led ‘eco-social’ policies that, if integrated in a comprehensive policy strategy, have the potential to overcome the growth imperative in the economy and policymaking and break the growth-related glass ceiling of the environmental state.
Avdelning/ar
- Socialhögskolan
Publiceringsår
2020-01-03
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
115-133
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Environmental Politics
Volym
29
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Nyckelord
- Environmental state
- materialist state theory
- Degrowth/Postgrowth
- steady-state economy
- sustainable welfare
- eco-social policies
Status
Published
Projekt
- Sustainable Welfare for a New Generation of Social Policy
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0964-4016