Institutionalising environmental sustainability transitions in New Zealand and Australia: Introduction to the special issue

IF 1.2 4区 社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Science Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI:10.1080/00323187.2022.2037440
Sam Crawley, V. Dinica
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ABSTRACT Politics is critical to understanding the pathways to a sustainable future. In recent years, a scholarly field has emerged, seeking to understand whether transitions towards more sustainable societies and economies occur and, if so, how they unfold. However, this field has not always fully incorporated the role of politics in shaping discourses, institutions and economic visions, or considered regions outside of Europe and North America. In this introduction to the special issue, we briefly review the field of sustainability transitions, highlighting the need to better capture the role played by political factors, institutions and (debates on) economic innovations in these transitions. We explain that sustainability is a contested concept, with two dominant conceptualisations: weak and strong sustainability. The framework of sustainability transitions allows us to position the contributions of the articles included in this special issue, which examine governance and institutions, media discourses, the role of industry and alternative economic models. The special issue focuses on two jurisdictions infrequently discussed in the literature on sustainability transitions: New Zealand and Australia. The special issue thus contributes new theoretical and empirical perspectives on the role of politics, political institutions and economic visions in sustainability transitions in the South Pacific.
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新西兰和澳大利亚环境可持续性转型的制度化:特刊导论
摘要政治对于理解通往可持续未来的道路至关重要。近年来,出现了一个学术领域,试图了解是否会向更可持续的社会和经济转型,如果是,转型将如何展开。然而,这个领域并不总是完全纳入政治在塑造话语、制度和经济愿景方面的作用,也不总是考虑欧洲和北美以外的地区。在本期特刊的引言中,我们简要回顾了可持续性转型领域,强调需要更好地了解政治因素、体制和(关于)经济创新在这些转型中发挥的作用。我们解释说,可持续性是一个有争议的概念,有两个主要概念:弱可持续性和强可持续性。可持续性转型的框架使我们能够定位本期特刊中文章的贡献,这些文章审查了治理和机构、媒体话语、行业的作用和替代经济模式。这期特刊的重点是关于可持续性过渡的文献中很少讨论的两个管辖区:新西兰和澳大利亚。因此,该特刊为政治、政治体制和经济愿景在南太平洋可持续性转型中的作用提供了新的理论和经验视角。
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期刊介绍: Political Science publishes high quality original scholarly works in the broad field of political science. Submission of articles with a regional focus on New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific is particularly encouraged, but content is not limited to this focus. Contributions are invited from across the political science discipline, including from the fields of international relations, comparative politics, political theory and public administration. Proposals for collections of articles on a common theme or debate to be published as special issues are welcome, as well as individual submissions.
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