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‘Levelling up’ the UK is a golden opportunity for climate action – but the government is failing
The Conversation
How can just sustainability policies be implemented by different actors at different levels (e.g., local authorities, regional and devolved governments, national policy)?
Policy, Governance and Change focuses on a range of policy and governance issues to do with the pursuit of just sustainability.
We will be asking questions about which policies to pursue, by which actors: How can just sustainability policies be implemented by different actors at different levels? How can ‘joining-up’ diverse policies and actors accelerate just transformations?
We will also investigate the underlying conditions, and the ongoing forms of social and political change that shape how we go about pursuing just transformations. How does the rise of populism and the volatility of the political environment shape policy interventions and their effects at national, regional and local levels? How do other areas of policy – industrial strategy, or agricultural policy reform, for example – shape the possibilities of just transformations?
In this theme we will be working with a range of policymakers, and those who seek to influence them, to explore these questions across the JUST regions and beyond. We will also be working with researchers across the UK already working in similar areas and related research centres like the EDRC, UKERC, and CAST.