D Hausknost
Biographic Data
| ID | 28758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Hausknost |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Hausknost |
| SIGNATURE | HAUSKNOST D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0496-5526 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Legitimacy and the practice of judgment
The past two decades have seen a resurgence of debates about how to understand legitimacy in political theory.One of the reasons for this resurgence has been the recent realist turn, with its call to pay more attention to questions of (authorized) power rather than to principles of justice (Sleat, 2015).Such a realist perspective has led theorists to shed new light on many facets of legitimacy, for example the relationship between legitimation an…
Die strukturellen Grenzen des Dekarbonisierungsstaates
Um die Klimaziele zu erreichen, haben viele OECD-Staaten ihre Bemühungen zur Dekarbonisierung ihrer Wirtschaften verstärkt. Dennoch besteht eine gravierende Umsetzungslücke, die durch den aktuellen klimapolitischen Backlash noch vergrößert wird. Ausgehend von der These eines entstehenden »Dekarbonisierungsstaates« argumentieren wir, dass ein tieferes Verständnis des liberal-kapitalistischen Staates und seiner Grundfunktionen dazu beitragen kann, …
When the lifeworld colonises the system: The Uncertain Political Prospects of Eco-Social Transitions
What are transformations, anyway
Can liberal democracies thrive with consumption limits? Barriers to implementing consumption corridors
Consumption limits and sufficiency approaches face growing opposition in today’s political landscape. While proponents of consumption corridors (CCs) assume that setting upper consumption limits is achievable in liberal democracies, we argue that the tensions between CCs and liberal democracy are more profound than suggested. We examine the role of (high) consumption in liberal democracies to better understand the barriers to achieving a good lif…
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: Synthesizing the insights
Strategies toward ambitious climate targets usually rely on the concept of ‘decoupling’; that is, they aim at promoting economic growth while reducing the use of natural resources and GHG emissions. GDP growth coinciding with absolute reductions in emissions or resource use is denoted as ‘absolute decoupling’, as opposed to ‘relative decoupling’, where resource use or emissions increase less so than does GDP. Based on the bibliometric mapping in …
Nachhaltige Nicht-Nachhaltigkeit: Warum die ökologische Transformation der Gesellschaft nicht stattfindet
Auch wenn die Dringlichkeit einer sozial-ökologischen Transformation zur Nachhaltigkeit längst von praktisch allen Seiten anerkannt wird - moderne Gesellschaften verteidigen ihren Wohlstand und Lebensstil entschiedener denn je. Beharrlich wird eine sozial und ökologisch zerstörerische Politik der Nicht-Nachhaltigkeit betrieben. Die Konjunktur des Rechtspopulismus signalisiert, wie sehr das ökologisch-demokratische Projekt vergangener Jahrzehnte b…
The environmental state and the glass ceiling of transformation
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 transformation. First, the structure of state imperatives does not allow for the addition of an independent sustainability imperative without major contradictions. Second, the imperative of legitimation is identified as a crucial component of the glass ceil…
Beyond the environmental state? The political prospects of a sustainability transformation
About half a century ago, modern democratic states started to respond to environmental pressures that had arisen in the wake of rapid industrialization. Initially, governments set up environmental
A Transition to Which Bioeconomy? An Exploration of Diverging Techno-Political Choices
To date the concept of the bioeconomy—an economy based primarily on biogenic instead of fossil resources—has largely been associated with visions of “green growth” and the advancement of biotechnology and has been framed from within an industrial perspective. However, there is no consensus as to what a bioeconomy should effectively look like, and what type of society it would sustain. In this paper, we identify different types of narratives const…
Degrowth and Democracy
Degrowth and Democracy - 1
There never was a categorical ecological imperative: A response to Ingolfur Blühdorn
This is a reply to:Bluhdorn, Ingolfur. 2017. “Post-capitalism, post-growth, post-consumerism? Eco-political hopes beyond sustainability.” Global Discourse. 7 (1): 42–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1300415
‘Society Can’t Move So Much As a Chair!’—Systems, Structures and Actors in Social Ecology
Decision, choice, solution: Agentic Deadlock' in Environmental Politics
The combined challenges of climate change and resource depletion demand a rapid socioecological transition on a global scale. However, environmental politics in liberal democracies is caught in an ‘agentic deadlock’ inhibiting the implementation of effective transformative measures. I offer a conceptual framework for the analysis of this agentic deadlock and its structural root causes, building on the analytic distinction between three ‘agentic o…
All aims achieved? The Austrian Greens and the environment in the 2006 general election
The environmental state and the glass ceiling of transformation
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 transformation. First, the structure of state imperatives does not allow for the addition of an independent sustainability imperative without major contradictions. Second, the imperative of legitimation is identified as a crucial component of the glass ceil…
Beyond the environmental state? The political prospects of a sustainability transformation
About half a century ago, modern democratic states started to respond to environmental pressures that had arisen in the wake of rapid industrialization. Initially, governments set up environmental
Decision, choice, solution: Agentic Deadlock' in Environmental Politics
The combined challenges of climate change and resource depletion demand a rapid socioecological transition on a global scale. However, environmental politics in liberal democracies is caught in an ‘agentic deadlock’ inhibiting the implementation of effective transformative measures. I offer a conceptual framework for the analysis of this agentic deadlock and its structural root causes, building on the analytic distinction between three ‘agentic o…
There never was a categorical ecological imperative: A response to Ingolfur Blühdorn
This is a reply to:Bluhdorn, Ingolfur. 2017. “Post-capitalism, post-growth, post-consumerism? Eco-political hopes beyond sustainability.” Global Discourse. 7 (1): 42–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1300415
All aims achieved? The Austrian Greens and the environment in the 2006 general election
Decision, choice, solution: Agentic Deadlock' in Environmental Politics
The combined challenges of climate change and resource depletion demand a rapid socioecological transition on a global scale. However, environmental politics in liberal democracies is caught in an ‘agentic deadlock’ inhibiting the implementation of effective transformative measures. I offer a conceptual framework for the analysis of this agentic deadlock and its structural root causes, building on the analytic distinction between three ‘agentic o…
‘Society Can’t Move So Much As a Chair!’—Systems, Structures and Actors in Social Ecology
A Transition to Which Bioeconomy? An Exploration of Diverging Techno-Political Choices
To date the concept of the bioeconomy—an economy based primarily on biogenic instead of fossil resources—has largely been associated with visions of “green growth” and the advancement of biotechnology and has been framed from within an industrial perspective. However, there is no consensus as to what a bioeconomy should effectively look like, and what type of society it would sustain. In this paper, we identify different types of narratives const…
Degrowth and Democracy
Degrowth and Democracy - 1
There never was a categorical ecological imperative: A response to Ingolfur Blühdorn
This is a reply to:Bluhdorn, Ingolfur. 2017. “Post-capitalism, post-growth, post-consumerism? Eco-political hopes beyond sustainability.” Global Discourse. 7 (1): 42–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1300415
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: Synthesizing the insights
Strategies toward ambitious climate targets usually rely on the concept of ‘decoupling’; that is, they aim at promoting economic growth while reducing the use of natural resources and GHG emissions. GDP growth coinciding with absolute reductions in emissions or resource use is denoted as ‘absolute decoupling’, as opposed to ‘relative decoupling’, where resource use or emissions increase less so than does GDP. Based on the bibliometric mapping in …
Nachhaltige Nicht-Nachhaltigkeit: Warum die ökologische Transformation der Gesellschaft nicht stattfindet
Auch wenn die Dringlichkeit einer sozial-ökologischen Transformation zur Nachhaltigkeit längst von praktisch allen Seiten anerkannt wird - moderne Gesellschaften verteidigen ihren Wohlstand und Lebensstil entschiedener denn je. Beharrlich wird eine sozial und ökologisch zerstörerische Politik der Nicht-Nachhaltigkeit betrieben. Die Konjunktur des Rechtspopulismus signalisiert, wie sehr das ökologisch-demokratische Projekt vergangener Jahrzehnte b…
The environmental state and the glass ceiling of transformation
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 transformation. First, the structure of state imperatives does not allow for the addition of an independent sustainability imperative without major contradictions. Second, the imperative of legitimation is identified as a crucial component of the glass ceil…
Beyond the environmental state? The political prospects of a sustainability transformation
About half a century ago, modern democratic states started to respond to environmental pressures that had arisen in the wake of rapid industrialization. Initially, governments set up environmental
What are transformations, anyway
Can liberal democracies thrive with consumption limits? Barriers to implementing consumption corridors
Consumption limits and sufficiency approaches face growing opposition in today’s political landscape. While proponents of consumption corridors (CCs) assume that setting upper consumption limits is achievable in liberal democracies, we argue that the tensions between CCs and liberal democracy are more profound than suggested. We examine the role of (high) consumption in liberal democracies to better understand the barriers to achieving a good lif…
Die strukturellen Grenzen des Dekarbonisierungsstaates
Um die Klimaziele zu erreichen, haben viele OECD-Staaten ihre Bemühungen zur Dekarbonisierung ihrer Wirtschaften verstärkt. Dennoch besteht eine gravierende Umsetzungslücke, die durch den aktuellen klimapolitischen Backlash noch vergrößert wird. Ausgehend von der These eines entstehenden »Dekarbonisierungsstaates« argumentieren wir, dass ein tieferes Verständnis des liberal-kapitalistischen Staates und seiner Grundfunktionen dazu beitragen kann, …
When the lifeworld colonises the system: The Uncertain Political Prospects of Eco-Social Transitions
Legitimacy and the practice of judgment
The past two decades have seen a resurgence of debates about how to understand legitimacy in political theory.One of the reasons for this resurgence has been the recent realist turn, with its call to pay more attention to questions of (authorized) power rather than to principles of justice (Sleat, 2015).Such a realist perspective has led theorists to shed new light on many facets of legitimacy, for example the relationship between legitimation an…
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