The Green State and Industrial Decarbonisation
Hildingsson, Roger LU
; Kronsell, Annica
LU
and Khan, Jamil
LU
(2019)
In Environmental Politics
28(5).
p.909-928
- Abstract
The large share of carbon emitted by energy-intensive industries in the extraction and processing of basic materials must be limited to decarbonise society and the economy. Ways in which the state can govern industrial decarbonisation and contributes to green state theory are explored by addressing a largely ignored issue: the green state’s industrial relations and its role in industrial governance. With insights from a Swedish case study, the tension between the state’s economic imperative and ecological concerns in greening industry are shown to persist. However, as the energy-intensive industry’s previously privileged position in the economy is weakening, industry is opened to decarbonisation strategies. While the case exposes a... (More)
The large share of carbon emitted by energy-intensive industries in the extraction and processing of basic materials must be limited to decarbonise society and the economy. Ways in which the state can govern industrial decarbonisation and contributes to green state theory are explored by addressing a largely ignored issue: the green state’s industrial relations and its role in industrial governance. With insights from a Swedish case study, the tension between the state’s economic imperative and ecological concerns in greening industry are shown to persist. However, as the energy-intensive industry’s previously privileged position in the economy is weakening, industry is opened to decarbonisation strategies. While the case exposes a number of governance challenges, it also suggests potential areas where the state can pursue decarbonisation in energy-intensive industry and points the way to an active role of the green state in governing industrial decarbonisation and greening industry.
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- author
- Hildingsson, Roger
LU
; Kronsell, Annica
LU
and Khan, Jamil
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2019
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- climate policy, decarbonisation, Green State, industrial governance, sustainability transitions, Sweden
- in
- Environmental Politics
- volume
- 28
- issue
- 5
- pages
- 20 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85049917119
- ISSN
- 0964-4016
- DOI
- 10.1080/09644016.2018.1488484
- project
- Grön samhällsutveckling – industri och energisystem i omvandling” med diarienummer 2013-006392
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- f3f21bd3-b069-4421-b183-b27478cc4826
- date added to LUP
- 2018-08-01 14:19:16
- date last changed
- 2023-03-02 08:17:14
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