01670pab a2200169 454500 180718b2004 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Frickel, Scott Building environmental states: legitimacy and rationalization in sustainability governance 2004 p.89-110. Mar This article explores the potential for nation-states to become substantial contributors to sustainability governance. This potential resides in the ability of nation-states to make environmental protection a basic goal, in part by committing institutional resources toward the formation and implementation of substantive actions perceived necessary for long-term environmental sustainability. Existing research suggests that nation-states undertake environmental action in order to maintain legitimacy in the face of political pressure. While the maintenance of legitimacy is necessary, we argue that a substantive state role in sustainability governance is also dependent upon the rationalization of state environmental roles. Further, rationalization can be fostered through the enrichment of embedded state-societal networks with two key actors in civil society: environmental justice movements and environmental knowledge professionals. This article develops a conceptual framework that grounds sustainability efforts in rationalization processes and examines the synergistic potential for these two social actors to help build states that institute fundamental environmental reform. - Reproduced. Environmental legislation Davidson, Debra J. International Sociology 60072 60072 60072 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 19, Issue no: 1 AR60517 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR