Governance, justice and resistance - on the way to a fossil-free welfare society
The aim of the project is to develop a vision for integrated and socially accepted governance towards a fossil-free welfare society.
Details
- Period: 2019-12-01 – 2022-12-31
- Budget: 7,498,500 SEK
- Funder: Formas
- Type of funding: Projektbidrag
Description
In Sweden as well as globally, societal action to curb climate change seems to be trapped in a fundamental dilemma: while transition processes towards fossil-free societies will have to accelerate significantly if we want to limit further exacerbation of climate change, recent experiences in the EU and USA show that rapid social change can provoke severe counter-reactions from those who feel disempowered and left behind.
In this project we aim to address this dilemma by examining the interactions between approaches to transition governance, to identify potential synergies and tensions and anticipate opposition and resistance.
We focus particularly on aspects of justice and legitimacy to develop an integrated vision for transition governance that is more likely to be socially accepted, but also – because of its integrated nature – more likely to be effective than the current piecemeal approach.