James Meadowcroft
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3635776 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James Meadowcroft |
| PRENOMES | James |
| SOBRENOME | Meadowcroft |
| ASSINATURA | MEADOWCROFT J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0901-0195 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 824 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2027 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Toward a Canadian agenda for sustainability transition research
Sustainability transitions research has expanded well beyond its original empirical settings, yet questions remain about how transition perspectives can be meaningfully translated across political economies with distinctive configurations of institutional, geographic, environmental, and historical characteristics. In Canada, these questions are especially salient, as political-economic particularities both complicate the application of transition…
The anatomy of failed historical transitions
Transition research has yielded substantial insight regarding how large-scale changes in systems unfold but has paid comparatively little attention to failed transitions: historical episodes where efforts to adjust socio-technical systems did not result in systemic change. Despite calls to attend to these failures, analytical challenges continue to hold back engagement with this fertile empirical terrain. In response, this paper develops an appro…
The acceleration of low-carbon transitions
Given that several low-carbon transitions are now accelerating, what can we say about the drivers, conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics of acceleration? This question is widely discussed in policy and academic circles, but so far there is little attempt to develop a more comprehensive answer that considers the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of what acceleration is, how it comes about, and how it can be studied moving forward. To provide a m…
Net zero by 2050
How does the goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 influence our understanding of green industrial policy? While industrial policy has moved to the forefront of climate debates, the literature provides conflicting messages about good practices for developing and implementing it effectively. By reviewing key theoretical perspectives informing research on green industrial policy and key reports that model a net-zero future, we argue that loo…
Pluralizing Debates on the Anthropocene Requires Engaging with the Diversity of Existing Scholarship
A recent article in this journal (Jackson 2021 Jackson, M. 2021. On decolonizing the Anthropocene: Disobedience via plural constitutions. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111 (3):698–708. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1779645.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) validly emphasized that debates about the Anthropocene need to recognize a diverse range of perspectives, worldviews, and forms of knowledge. In…
Sélection thématique de livres
Cette rubrique signale des ouvrages rcemment parus. Ils sont classs en trois catgories : les ouvrages thmatiques par objet d'tude ; les ouvrages sur la science et ses rapports avec la socit ; les ouvrages de rflexion sur les sciences. Pour une description plus dtaille, cliquez sur le titre
Canadian Federalism and the Political Economy of Energy and the Environment
These two books draw attention to the role of Canada's oil-producing provinces—“petro-provinces” for Angela Carter and “carbon provinces” for Douglas Macdonald—in the politics of energy, environment and climate change, but they do so in very different ways. Carter's volume examines the erosion of environmental protections in the oil-rich provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador, while Macdonald's focuses on the way intere…
The Practical Fit of Concepts
Conceptual innovations are a central feature of global environmental governance. Confronting degradation and unsustainability, scholars and practitioners turn to new concepts to identify, make sense of, and chart new directions towards meaningful governance solutions. But why do some concepts create lasting changes to governance institutions and governance practices, while others do not? Ideational theories of international relations highlight th…
Stability and climate policy? Harnessing insights on path dependence, policy feedback, and transition pathways
Transition Experiments
Canada is embarking on a low-carbon energy transition that will involve the diffusion of innovations and the reconfiguration of energy systems. This article examines the potential contribution that transition experiments can make to this process. Transition experiments can be understood as deliberate interventions that test novel configurations of social and technical elements that could lead to substantial low-carbon change. The analysis suggest…
Critical choices and the politics of decarbonization pathways
Framing the sun
Let's Get This Transition Moving
This paper makes four basic points about movement toward a low carbon economy in Canada: first, that it is important for political leaders, policy analysts, and researchers to approach the issue in terms of a transition to a carbon-emission–free society; second, that in Canada the development of regional pathways to a low-carbon economy is crucial; third, that we need “green development strategies” if we are to maximize the opportunities presente…
Greening Leviathan
‘Bringing the state back in’ to research on comparative, inter-, and trans-national environmental politics and policy will contribute to better understanding of the limits and prospects of contemporary approaches to environmental politics and the overall evolution of contemporary states once environmental issues become central. The rationale for the state as an analytical perspective in environmental policy and politics is explained, and an empir…
Governing societal transitions to sustainability
Our paper addresses the inherent tension between the open-ended and uncertain process of sustainability transitions and the ambition for governing such a process. We explore this tension from two theoretical angles: the sustainability and the governance angles; by showing the implications of sustainability targets in governance processes and governance attempts. We propose transition management as a governance approach that has the potential to o…
Navigating the Anthropocene
The United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro in June is an important opportunity to improve the institutional framework for sustainable development.
Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability
Decarbonizing the Welfare State
Over the twentieth century the welfare state emerged as one of the most conspicuous features of the modern polity. Together with a market-mediated economy with concentrated private ownership of the principal productive assets, and political systems with multi-party elections and fairly extensive individual rights, the welfare state helps define the basic character of contemporary developed societies. This article focuses on linkages between clima…
The political economy of technology support
The politics and policy of carbon capture and storage
Engaging with the politics of sustainability transitions
What about the politics? Sustainable development, transition management, and long term energy transitions
Jesp symposium
Climate change is surely one of the most encompassing and egregious threats in Europe today, so it is appropriate that we consider its implications for social policy in Europe. It is true that climate change is a separate agenda, the preserve of a distinct academic and epistemic community, scholarly discourse, policy community, institutional structures and modes of governance; but the linkages between these two issues – climate change and its pol…
Who is in Charge here? Governance for Sustainable Development in a Complex World
This paper explores one of the major challenges associated with governance for sustainable development: managing change in a context where power is distributed across diverse societal subsystems an...
The liberal political tradition
This book reassesses the liberal political tradition in the light of recent intellectual and political developments. Featuring work by analysts of liberal thought, this volume examines the links between modern liberalism and earlier liberal variants, addresses contemporary challenges to liberalism, and considers prospects for the future. The contributors offer both analytical and historical approaches to understanding liberal thought. Engaging wi…
What about the politics? Sustainable development, transition management, and long term energy transitions
Engaging with the politics of sustainability transitions
Greening Leviathan
‘Bringing the state back in’ to research on comparative, inter-, and trans-national environmental politics and policy will contribute to better understanding of the limits and prospects of contemporary approaches to environmental politics and the overall evolution of contemporary states once environmental issues become central. The rationale for the state as an analytical perspective in environmental policy and politics is explained, and an empir…
Jesp symposium
Climate change is surely one of the most encompassing and egregious threats in Europe today, so it is appropriate that we consider its implications for social policy in Europe. It is true that climate change is a separate agenda, the preserve of a distinct academic and epistemic community, scholarly discourse, policy community, institutional structures and modes of governance; but the linkages between these two issues – climate change and its pol…
Environmental political economy, technological transitions and the state
Stability and climate policy? Harnessing insights on path dependence, policy feedback, and transition pathways
Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability
Sustainable Development
The politics and policy of carbon capture and storage
Planning, Democracy and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
Over the past decade sustainable development has increasingly been adopted as an objective of government policy, and “planning for sustainable development” is now a real-world activity of officials and ministries. A survey of conceptual issues, of three environmental economists' proposals to achieve sustainability, and of initial practical experience in the industrialised countries suggest that planning for environmentally sustainable development…
Critical choices and the politics of decarbonization pathways
The Politics of Sustainable Development
There has been a remarkable evolution in environment-related policy-making at both national and international levels during the ten years since the Report of the Brundtland Commission formulated its well-known appeal for sustainable development. This article examines three developments in industrialized countries which appear to be closely associated with national efforts to engage with sustainable development: (1) the preparation of national env…
The acceleration of low-carbon transitions
Given that several low-carbon transitions are now accelerating, what can we say about the drivers, conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics of acceleration? This question is widely discussed in policy and academic circles, but so far there is little attempt to develop a more comprehensive answer that considers the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of what acceleration is, how it comes about, and how it can be studied moving forward. To provide a m…
The political economy of technology support
Planning for sustainable development
Over the past decade European political leaders have increasingly come to refer to ‘sustainable development’ as a legitimate focus of government activity. Starting from the premises that sustainable development is a complex and contested ideal, and that experiences with state planning in the twentieth century have been deeply ambiguous, this article reflects on the insights which political science can shed on the new social project of ‘planning f…
Let's Get This Transition Moving
This paper makes four basic points about movement toward a low carbon economy in Canada: first, that it is important for political leaders, policy analysts, and researchers to approach the issue in terms of a transition to a carbon-emission–free society; second, that in Canada the development of regional pathways to a low-carbon economy is crucial; third, that we need “green development strategies” if we are to maximize the opportunities presente…
Net zero by 2050
How does the goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 influence our understanding of green industrial policy? While industrial policy has moved to the forefront of climate debates, the literature provides conflicting messages about good practices for developing and implementing it effectively. By reviewing key theoretical perspectives informing research on green industrial policy and key reports that model a net-zero future, we argue that loo…
The Practical Fit of Concepts
Conceptual innovations are a central feature of global environmental governance. Confronting degradation and unsustainability, scholars and practitioners turn to new concepts to identify, make sense of, and chart new directions towards meaningful governance solutions. But why do some concepts create lasting changes to governance institutions and governance practices, while others do not? Ideational theories of international relations highlight th…
Transition Experiments
Canada is embarking on a low-carbon energy transition that will involve the diffusion of innovations and the reconfiguration of energy systems. This article examines the potential contribution that transition experiments can make to this process. Transition experiments can be understood as deliberate interventions that test novel configurations of social and technical elements that could lead to substantial low-carbon change. The analysis suggest…
State, ‘statelessness’ and the British political tradition
Conceptualizing the State
This book is concerned with the way in which the concept of the state was invoked in British political argument between 1880 and 1914. Its central claim is that the decades bracketing the turn of the century witnessed a significant change in the prevailing terms of British political discourse, that the concept of the state, hitherto a relative stranger to British debate, emerged as a key component of the idiom in which critical reflection on poli…
State, ‘statelessness’ and the British political tradition
Democracy and the Environment
A complex relationship exists between democratic politics and the management of the environment. Democracy and the Environment presents major new work on the challenges and dilemmas which environmental problems pose for the processes of democratic politics.
Taking issue with Unced's critics
Planning, Democracy and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
Over the past decade sustainable development has increasingly been adopted as an objective of government policy, and “planning for sustainable development” is now a real-world activity of officials and ministries. A survey of conceptual issues, of three environmental economists' proposals to achieve sustainability, and of initial practical experience in the industrialised countries suggest that planning for environmentally sustainable development…
Planning for sustainable development
Over the past decade European political leaders have increasingly come to refer to ‘sustainable development’ as a legitimate focus of government activity. Starting from the premises that sustainable development is a complex and contested ideal, and that experiences with state planning in the twentieth century have been deeply ambiguous, this article reflects on the insights which political science can shed on the new social project of ‘planning f…
The Politics of Sustainable Development
There has been a remarkable evolution in environment-related policy-making at both national and international levels during the ten years since the Report of the Brundtland Commission formulated its well-known appeal for sustainable development. This article examines three developments in industrialized countries which appear to be closely associated with national efforts to engage with sustainable development: (1) the preparation of national env…
Sustainable Development
Neutrality, perfectionism, and the new liberal conception of the state
This chapter will consider the British new liberal theorist L. T. Hobhouse in light of three different sorts of assumption often made today about the character of liberal political argument. The first assumption is that liberals are “individualists.” An atomistic conception of society, an image of the human “self” abstracted from all social ties, and an affirmation of the ethical primacy of the individual are considered typical of liberalism. In …
The New Liberalism
The 'New Liberalism' of the late nineteenth/early twentieth century is an unjustifiably neglected strand of the liberal tradition. By emphasising community as well as rights and liberty, thinkers such as T. H. Green, J. A. Hobson and L. T. Hobhouse support, but in distinctive ways, recent challenges to the established dichotomy between communitarianism and liberalism. These essays examine new liberal thinking and conclude that liberal and communi…
Planning Sustainability
Planning for sustainable development
Yet experiences with state planning initiatives in the twentieth century have been deeply ambiguous. On one hand, the complex planning mechanisms through which governments seek to structure and orient patterns of social and economic interaction have been associated with real achievements. On the other hand, planning and planners have been linked to a steady stream of policy fiascos and disasters. It is not just that planning techniques have been …
Participation and Sustainable Development
This book is an original study of the challenge of implementing sustainable development in Western democracies. It highlights the obstacles which sustainable development presents for strategic governance and critically examines how these problems can best be overcome in a variety of different political contexts.
From Welfare State to Ecostate
Environmental political economy, technological transitions and the state
Who is in Charge here? Governance for Sustainable Development in a Complex World
This paper explores one of the major challenges associated with governance for sustainable development: managing change in a context where power is distributed across diverse societal subsystems an...
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Jesp symposium
Climate change is surely one of the most encompassing and egregious threats in Europe today, so it is appropriate that we consider its implications for social policy in Europe. It is true that climate change is a separate agenda, the preserve of a distinct academic and epistemic community, scholarly discourse, policy community, institutional structures and modes of governance; but the linkages between these two issues – climate change and its pol…
What about the politics? Sustainable development, transition management, and long term energy transitions
Decarbonizing the Welfare State
Over the twentieth century the welfare state emerged as one of the most conspicuous features of the modern polity. Together with a market-mediated economy with concentrated private ownership of the principal productive assets, and political systems with multi-party elections and fairly extensive individual rights, the welfare state helps define the basic character of contemporary developed societies. This article focuses on linkages between clima…
The political economy of technology support
The politics and policy of carbon capture and storage
Engaging with the politics of sustainability transitions
Governing societal transitions to sustainability
Our paper addresses the inherent tension between the open-ended and uncertain process of sustainability transitions and the ambition for governing such a process. We explore this tension from two theoretical angles: the sustainability and the governance angles; by showing the implications of sustainability targets in governance processes and governance attempts. We propose transition management as a governance approach that has the potential to o…
Navigating the Anthropocene
The United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro in June is an important opportunity to improve the institutional framework for sustainable development.
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