No democratic state has yet implemented a climate plan strong enough to meet the goals of
the Paris Agreement. This has led some to argue that democracy cannot cope with a …

In recent times we have seen a spate of climate assemblies across Europe as the climate
emergency gains increasing prominence in the political agenda and as the citizens' …

Accelerating social and environmental change raises pressing questions about how existing
institutions can be reformed to mount a more effective response. In this context, goal-based …

Heat decarbonization threatens substantial disruptions in temperate countries. However, the
concept of disruption carries diverse meanings, potentially relating to cost, material space …

Four decades on from the onset of deindustrialisation in the UK and other late-capitalist
societies, industrial places are again emerging as key objects of policy discourse. Under the …

This paper outlines a conceptual framework for a sufficiency economy, defining sufficiency
as the space between a generalizable notion of human wellbeing and ungeneralisable …

Climate assemblies and other forms of deliberative mini-publics have recently gained
prominence as a means to promote just climate transitions. In this article, we analyze a …

Urgent action to tackle the climate crisis will only be possible with significant public support
for radical lifestyle change. Arguments that seek to delay climate action and justify …

This chapter provides a critical reflection on conceptualizations of top-down and bottom-up
citizens' assemblies (CAs). Through a review of the literature and analysis of paradigmatic …

We carried out a mixed-method design to investigate the Austrian Climate Citizens'
Assembly (CCA) input, process and output dimensions following the OECD's Evaluation …