Journal article
Rethinking the green state beyond the Global North: a South African climate change case study
S Chandrashekeran, B Morgan, K Coetzee, P Christoff
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change | WILEY | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.473
Abstract
This study focuses on the role of the South African state in environmental governance, with particular reference to transformations in political authority and processes of capital accumulation. Our approach underscores the importance of analyzing state environmental efforts both empirically and normatively, in order to understand the underlying drivers of state policies that perpetuate or ameliorate environmental degradation. The tension between economic and ecological values lies at the heart of South Africa's approach to mitigation. We evaluate South Africa's performance on climate change mitigation policies and programs and show that while, empirically, South Africa may appear to be a par..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. The grant also supported detailed empirical work on India, led by Dr. Navroz Dubash (Centre for Policy Research, India), and we are grateful to both him and Professor Harald Winkler for valuable input on earlier versions of this work. Thank you also to the anonymous reviewers of this manuscript and the editor Professor Karin Backstrand for thoughtful feedback that helped reshape the paper. We also acknowledge the early work and comments on drafts by Dr. Lucy Baker (SPRU, University of Sussex). We remain responsible for any errors of interpretation or fact.