ABSTRACT
The dominant discourse since the early 1980s has been of the primacy of the market, the desirability of competition and the centrality of economic growth. Whether this context forms the basis for the new styles of low carbon futures that are currently being formed and, if so, how are vital issues. As historically generated power relationships are coming under pressure in the current crises we need to examine how specific governmental understandings of low carbon futures are being produced through specific inter-relationships and institutions. Consequently, in this chapter we examine governmental relations and the processes through which a ‘national landscape’ of low carbon rationalities is being constructed.
