Democratising sustainability transformations: Assessing the transformative potential of democratic practices in environmental governance

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Democratising sustainability transformations: Assessing the transformative potential of democratic practices in environmental governance
 
Pickering, Jonathan; Hickman, Thomas; Backstrand, Karin; Kalfagianni, Agni; Bloomfield, Michael; Mert, Aysem; Ransan-Cooper, Hedda; Lo, Alex Y.
(2022) Earth System Governance, volume 11, pp. 1 - 14
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Abstract
Many democracies find it difficult to act swiftly on problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss. This is reflected in long-standing debates in research and policy about whether democratic practices are capable of fostering timely, large-scale transformations towards sustainability. Drawing on an integrative review of scholarly literature from 2011 ... read more
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Keywords: Earth system governance, Ecological democracy, Environmental democracy, Environmental governance, Sustainability transformations, Transformative governance, Geography, Planning and Development, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2021.100131
ISSN: 2589-8116
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Note: Funding Information: We presented earlier versions of this article at the Earth System Governance conference and the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance in 2019. We also explored the dimensions of sustainability transformations outlined in the article at the 2019 and 2020 meetings of the Earth System Governance Project’s Working Group on Democracy and Earth System Governance. We are very grateful to all participants in these events for insights and feedback. Moreover, we thank two anonymous reviewers for valuable and constructive comments and suggestions for strengthening the main contribution of the article. This research was supported under the Australian Research Council's Laureate Fellowship funding scheme (project number FL140100154 ). Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Authors
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