Marius Christen
Biographic Data
| ID | 117475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marius Christen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marius |
| FAMILY NAME | Christen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0551-8063 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The sustainable state
While there are established concepts of the green or environmental state, no clear idea exists of what constitutes a sustainable state and by what standards to evaluate such a state. This article aims to clarify the notion of the sustainable state in terms of a framework of sustainability-oriented meta-governance functions. To this end, a comprehensive idea of sustainability is linked with a meta-governance perspective on the contemporary state. …
Mainstreaming sustainability through sustainability offices
Public administrations must change toward sustainability to play a meaningful role in sustainable policy‐making. However, little is known about how and why sustainability‐oriented change unfolds in public administrations. This article aims to advance conceptual and empirical knowledge by examining sustainability mainstreaming through sustainability offices (SO) as a specific type of sustainability‐oriented administrative change. Based on a framew…
Staatliche Governance-Kapazität für Nachhaltigkeit
Regierungen und Verwaltungen richten ihr Handeln vermehrt auf Nachhaltigkeit aus. Doch wie erfolgreich sind sie dabei? Wir stellen ein Instrument zur Messung nachhaltigkeitsbezogener interner Governance-Kapazität vor. Die Anwendung auf Schweizer Kantone offenbart deutliche Kapazitätsunterschiede und zeigt Möglichkeiten zur Stärkung staatlicher Governance-Kapazität auf.Sustainability has become an important guiding principle that has not only foun…
A New Generation of Sustainability Governance
Governments and administrations at all levels play a central role in shaping sustainable development. Over the past 30 years, many have developed differentiated sustainability governance arrangements (SGAs) to incorporate sustainability into their governing practice. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which the UN adopted in 2015, brings with it some significant conceptual shifts in sustainability thinking that, in turn, entail new gove…
Navigating between Complexity and Control in Transdisciplinary Problem Framing
Referring to a problem-oriented research mode, transdisciplinarity faces the challenge of dealing with the complexity of real-world problems in a methodologically controlled manner. As the first step in transdisciplinary research, problem framing aims at identifying the problem that will serve as a common orientation point for the subsequent research process. Existing approaches to integrative problem framing seek collaboration of practical and s…
A Sustainability-Fitting Interpretation of the Capability Approach
Combining the Capability Approach (CA) with Sustainable Development (SD) is a promising project that has gained much attention. Recently, scholars from both perspectives have worked on narrowing gaps between these development approaches, with a focus on the connection between the CA as a partial justice theory and SD as a concept embracing justice and ecological fragility and relative scarcity. We argue that to base an SD conception on the CA, th…
A Formal Framework for Conceptions of Sustainability – a Theoretical Contribution to the Discourse in Sustainable Development
In the sustainability discourse we find much disagreement about the idea of sustainability resulting in the unsatisfactory situation that this idea is limited by arbitrariness and therefore looses its action guiding power. Examining various strategies to solve this challenge we argue for a meta‐perspective. In the central part of this paper we describe a formal framework for conceptions of sustainability consisting of fundamental and practical mo…
A Formal Framework for Conceptions of Sustainability – a Theoretical Contribution to the Discourse in Sustainable Development
In the sustainability discourse we find much disagreement about the idea of sustainability resulting in the unsatisfactory situation that this idea is limited by arbitrariness and therefore looses its action guiding power. Examining various strategies to solve this challenge we argue for a meta‐perspective. In the central part of this paper we describe a formal framework for conceptions of sustainability consisting of fundamental and practical mo…
A Sustainability-Fitting Interpretation of the Capability Approach
Combining the Capability Approach (CA) with Sustainable Development (SD) is a promising project that has gained much attention. Recently, scholars from both perspectives have worked on narrowing gaps between these development approaches, with a focus on the connection between the CA as a partial justice theory and SD as a concept embracing justice and ecological fragility and relative scarcity. We argue that to base an SD conception on the CA, th…
Mainstreaming sustainability through sustainability offices
Public administrations must change toward sustainability to play a meaningful role in sustainable policy‐making. However, little is known about how and why sustainability‐oriented change unfolds in public administrations. This article aims to advance conceptual and empirical knowledge by examining sustainability mainstreaming through sustainability offices (SO) as a specific type of sustainability‐oriented administrative change. Based on a framew…
A New Generation of Sustainability Governance
Governments and administrations at all levels play a central role in shaping sustainable development. Over the past 30 years, many have developed differentiated sustainability governance arrangements (SGAs) to incorporate sustainability into their governing practice. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which the UN adopted in 2015, brings with it some significant conceptual shifts in sustainability thinking that, in turn, entail new gove…
A Formal Framework for Conceptions of Sustainability – a Theoretical Contribution to the Discourse in Sustainable Development
In the sustainability discourse we find much disagreement about the idea of sustainability resulting in the unsatisfactory situation that this idea is limited by arbitrariness and therefore looses its action guiding power. Examining various strategies to solve this challenge we argue for a meta‐perspective. In the central part of this paper we describe a formal framework for conceptions of sustainability consisting of fundamental and practical mo…
A Sustainability-Fitting Interpretation of the Capability Approach
Combining the Capability Approach (CA) with Sustainable Development (SD) is a promising project that has gained much attention. Recently, scholars from both perspectives have worked on narrowing gaps between these development approaches, with a focus on the connection between the CA as a partial justice theory and SD as a concept embracing justice and ecological fragility and relative scarcity. We argue that to base an SD conception on the CA, th…
Navigating between Complexity and Control in Transdisciplinary Problem Framing
Referring to a problem-oriented research mode, transdisciplinarity faces the challenge of dealing with the complexity of real-world problems in a methodologically controlled manner. As the first step in transdisciplinary research, problem framing aims at identifying the problem that will serve as a common orientation point for the subsequent research process. Existing approaches to integrative problem framing seek collaboration of practical and s…
Staatliche Governance-Kapazität für Nachhaltigkeit
Regierungen und Verwaltungen richten ihr Handeln vermehrt auf Nachhaltigkeit aus. Doch wie erfolgreich sind sie dabei? Wir stellen ein Instrument zur Messung nachhaltigkeitsbezogener interner Governance-Kapazität vor. Die Anwendung auf Schweizer Kantone offenbart deutliche Kapazitätsunterschiede und zeigt Möglichkeiten zur Stärkung staatlicher Governance-Kapazität auf.Sustainability has become an important guiding principle that has not only foun…
A New Generation of Sustainability Governance
Governments and administrations at all levels play a central role in shaping sustainable development. Over the past 30 years, many have developed differentiated sustainability governance arrangements (SGAs) to incorporate sustainability into their governing practice. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which the UN adopted in 2015, brings with it some significant conceptual shifts in sustainability thinking that, in turn, entail new gove…
Mainstreaming sustainability through sustainability offices
Public administrations must change toward sustainability to play a meaningful role in sustainable policy‐making. However, little is known about how and why sustainability‐oriented change unfolds in public administrations. This article aims to advance conceptual and empirical knowledge by examining sustainability mainstreaming through sustainability offices (SO) as a specific type of sustainability‐oriented administrative change. Based on a framew…
The sustainable state
While there are established concepts of the green or environmental state, no clear idea exists of what constitutes a sustainable state and by what standards to evaluate such a state. This article aims to clarify the notion of the sustainable state in terms of a framework of sustainability-oriented meta-governance functions. To this end, a comprehensive idea of sustainability is linked with a meta-governance perspective on the contemporary state. …
Political science (5 works) · Sustainability (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Geography (3 works)