Governing Decarbonisation

The new climate politics of decarbonisation address the prospects for movingsociety away from its current dependence on fossil carbon energy. In thiscompilation dissertation, Hildingsson explores the role of the state as a criticalsite for progressive climate action, and examines its capacity to govern decarbonisationby transforming systems, structures and practices that generatecarbon emissions. Based on insights from the development of climate governancearrangements and institutional conditions for public policy in Sweden,Hildingsson proposes that the modern (environmental) state holds untappedcapacities to govern decarbonisation. These capacities can be progressivelyexplored to advance and scale up the efforts to reorient societal development.Thus, a decarbonising state can be made more actively engaged in steering andenabling the processes of low-carbon transitions, and in developing new waysfor orchestrating a wide range of low-carbon initiatives and developments.Roger Hildingsson works as researcher and teacher in environmental politics andclimate governance at the Department of Political Science, and this book is hiscompleted PhD thesis. His tutors have been Annica Kronsell and Johannes Stripple.