Critical Perspectives in Environmental Policy and Planning
To coincide with the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning’s (JEPP) sponsorship of a Section at the 2022 General Conference of the European Consortium of Policy Research (ECPR) in Innsbruck (22-26 August 2022), we have assembled a collection of papers that highlight some of the Journal’s most engaging recent research which pose challenging and critical questions over how environmental policy and governance can respond to our socio-ecological crises. The papers included here address topics such as climate change, democracy, energy policy, bioeconomy, flood risk and green infrastructure, which collectively highlight how our understanding of the causal factors, drivers, risks, and responses to environmental crises remain highly contested, and continue to be a major source of tension in policy discourses, processes and implementation. Well-established concepts and paradigms such as sustainable development are being reinterpreted in novel contexts, and themes such as ecological modernization are giving way to demands for more wide-scale social transformation and regime change. It is essential that scholarship in the field of environmental policy develops to take into account this changing context, and to offer critical, reflexive and progressive insights that can inform future dimensions of environmental and sustainability policy. We believe that the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning remains at the forefront of these debates and hope you will enjoy this collection of free access paper that give a real taste of the exciting scholarship that we support. Please note that we have a call for Special Issues twice a year – if you are interested in proposing and guest-editing such an issue, please see our guidance here (https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cjoe20/special-issues#siProp), with the deadline for the next call being 31st October 2022.
Edited by
Prof. Carsten Daugbjerg(University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Prof. Geraint Ellis(Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK)
Prof. Andrea K. Gerlak(University of Arizona, USA)
Dr Tamara Metze(Wageningen University, Netherlands)
Prof. Xun Wu(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
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