Home>No sustainability transformation beyond this point? Exploring the ‘glass ceiling of transformation’ in the modern democratic state
13.03.2025
No sustainability transformation beyond this point? Exploring the ‘glass ceiling of transformation’ in the modern democratic state
About this event
13 March 2025 from 14:45 until 16:45
Room B404
56 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006, ParisThis AIRE seminar is part of the stream "In Transition: Green deals and the reinvention of industrial democracy", coordinated by Pierre Charbonnier (CEE), Lucas Chancel (CRIS) and Charlotte Halpern (CEE)
Modern ‘environmental states’ have achieved some impressive results in dealing with domestic environmental problems but continue to fail dramatically in resolving the planetary ecological and climate crisis. In this talk, I present a range of explanations for this discrepancy and speculate about future trajectories of state action.
Speaker
Daniel HAUSKNOST is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the Institute for Social Change and Sustainability (IGN) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien).
His research focusses on the modern (democratic) state’s functional dependence on unsustainable patterns of energy and resource use and the resulting conundrum of how sustainability transformations could become possible at all.
Chair
Charlotte HALPERN (Sciences Po, CEE & LIEPP)
