This book explores new questions about the transformative capacities of the state vis-a-vis environmental sustainability.

Daniel Hausknost is Assistant Professor in Politics at the Institute of Social Change and Sustainability at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.

Marit Hammond is Lecturer in Politics at the School of Social, Political and Global Studies, Keele University, UK.

Preface

Marit Hammond and Daniel Hausknost

Introduction

Daniel Hausknost and Marit Hammond

1. The environmental state and the glass ceiling of transformation

Daniel Hausknost

2. The legitimation crisis of democracy: emancipatory politics, the environmental state and the glass ceiling to socio-ecological transformation

Ingolfur Blühdorn

3. The 'glass ceiling' of the environmental state and the social denial of mortality

Richard McNeill Douglas

4. The environmental state between pre-emption and inoperosity

Luigi Pellizzoni

5. Inventing the environmental state: neoliberal common sense and the limits to transformation

Sophia Hatzisavvidou

6. The state in the transformation to a sustainable postgrowth economy

Max Koch

7. Potential for a radical policy-shift? The acceptability of strong sustainable consumption governance among elites

Sanna Ahvenharju

8. Democracy, disagreement, disruption: agonism and the environmental state

Amanda Machin

9. Sustainability as a cultural transformation: the role of deliberative democracy

Marit Hammond