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Environmental Sustainability and Autocratic Governance in Morocco: The Emerald Kingdom book cover

1st Edition

Environmental Sustainability and Autocratic Governance in Morocco The Emerald Kingdom

By Katharina Nicolai Copyright 2026
316 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the foundations of Morocco’s approach to green energy and environmental sustainability politics and, through the approach of autocracy research, offers a new perspective on the country’s environmental turn during the reign of King Mohammed VI. International accolades have rained on the Moroccan regime for its transition toward green energy and environmental sustainability... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Authoritarianism and the Moroccan State

3. Environmental Sustainability Policy, Polity, and Politics in Morocco

4. Environmental Sustainability and Domestic Regime Legitimation

5. Environmental Sustainability and Transnational Regime Legitimation

6. Environmental Sustainability and Domestic Regime Cooptation

7. Environmental Sustainability and Transnational Regime Cooptation

8. Summary and Conclusion

Biography

Katharina Nicolai is a research associate at the Chair of Politics and Society of the Middle East at the Friedrich- Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. She specializes in comparative politics in the Maghreb, with a particular focus on authoritarian power and political ecology trajectories in North Africa.

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