TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fahrmeir, Andreas
T1  - Democracies, change, sustainability, and transformation: historical perspectives
T2  - Sustainability : science, practice, & policy
N2  - This article discusses the potential of a historical approach to sustainability transformations. Using environmental issues and governance structures as case studies, it first describes how historical “sustainability transformations” can be conceptualized. It then suggests that 19th-century constitutional reforms can be read as attempts at reaching fiscal sustainability, whereas some social reforms can be interpreted as attempts to render the capitalist economy sustainable. In conclusion, the article highlights that the primary value of historical approaches to sustainability transformations will not lie in models, but in encouraging more creative questions.
KW  - sustainability transformations
KW  - urban waste
KW  - financial sustainability
KW  - welfare state
KW  - historical perspectives on sustainability
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55579
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-555794
SN  - 1548-7733
N1  - This work was supported by DFG; CRC 1095,
Project C03.
VL  - 16
IS  - 1
SP  - 74
EP  - 82
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
ER  -