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Podcast: Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Episode: Peter Newell, "States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Description: What is the role of the state in supporting transitions and deeper transformations towards a more sustainable world? 
Brought to you by the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group.
The role of the state in supporting shifts towards a more sustainable society is receiving increasing academic and policy attention from interest in green (new) deals to planet politics through to more critical attention to the ecocidal and extractivist nature of states. Despite this, the focus often starts and (frequently) ends with the governance of transitions, where the state is merely one actor among many and...