Governing Complexity: Recent Developments in Environmental Politics and Policy

Fahey, Bridget K.; Pralle, Sarah

doi:10.1111/psj.12159

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“…Consistent with the results of Fahey and Pralle (), we find that more than two‐thirds of the articles focus on North American (76, 41 percent) and European concerns (39, 21 percent) (Figure ). Asian environmental governance issues rank third in prevalence, addressed in 25 articles (13 percent).…”

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Applying Policy Process Theories to Environmental Governance Research: Themes and New Directions

Ruseva¹,

Foster

Arnold

et al. 2019

Policy Studies Journal

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Policy scholars have effectively leveraged policy process models, theories, and frameworks to respond to a variety of important environmental questions. For example, how do environmental issues arrive on the agendas of policymakers? What factors contribute to environmental policy change? What are the designs and effects of institutions (e.g., policies or cultural norms) on environmental governance? In this review, we survey the field of policy process scholarship, focusing on environmental governance, with three objectives. The first objective is to catalog the policy process models, theories, and frameworks most often featured in studies of environmental governance. The second is to capture the methodological choices commonly employed in the application of these models, theories, and frameworks in environmental domains. The third is to identify how these approaches deal with issues central to environmental governance research, including time, space, and policy scale. We aim to identify trends and strategies for integrating key considerations of scale into empirical policy process scholarship.

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Applying Policy Process Theories to Environmental Governance Research: Themes and New Directions

Ruseva¹,

Foster

Arnold

et al. 2019

Policy Studies Journal

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“…In doing so, the article also responds to the loudening call (e.g. Fahey and Pralle 2016;Jenkins 2014, 469) for politically pragmatic climate mitigation policy advice that eschews the depoliticised and Bfirst-best^economic methodology adopted in much of the literature on climate policy instruments. This article's insights about the political attributes of restrictive supply-side policies relative to demand-side policies can usefully be combined with existing findings about the political attributes of different instrument-types (market-based mechanisms vs. Bcommand and control^regulation; price vs. quantity instruments) and design features (e.g.…”

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Cutting with both arms of the scissors: the economic and political case for restrictive supply-side climate policies

Green

Denniss²

2018

Climatic Change

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Proponents of climate change mitigation face difficult choices about which types of policy instrument(s) to pursue. The literature on the comparative evaluation of climate policy instruments has focused overwhelmingly on economic analyses of instruments aimed at restricting demand for greenhouse gas emissions (especially carbon taxes and cap-and-trade schemes) and, to some extent, on instruments that support the supply of or demand for substitutes for emissions-intensive goods, such as renewable energy. Evaluation of instruments aimed at restricting the upstream supply of commodities or products whose downstream consumption causes greenhouse gas emissions-such as fossil fuels-has largely been neglected in this literature. Moreover, analyses that compare policy instruments using both economic and political (e.g. political Bfeasibility^and Bfeedback^) criteria are rare. This article aims to help bridge both of these gaps. Specifically, the article demonstrates that restrictive supply-side policy instruments (targeting fossil fuels) have numerous characteristic economic and political advantages over otherwise similar restrictive demand-side instruments (targeting greenhouse gases). Economic advantages include low administrative and transaction costs, higher abatement certainty (due to the relative ease of monitoring, reporting and verification), comprehensive within-sector coverage, some advantageous price/efficiency effects, the mitigation of infrastructure Block-in^risks, and mitigation of the Bgreen paradox^. Political advantages include the superior potential to mobilise public support for supply-side policies, the conduciveness of supply-side policies to international policy cooperation, and the potential to bring different segments of the fossil fuel industry into a coalition supportive of such policies. In light of these attributes, restrictive supply-side policies squarely belong in the climate policy Btoolkit^.Climatic Change (2018) 150:73-87

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“…They find that the literature has taken on the challenge of investigating the complexity of environmental issues and problems. More specifically, the authors show how scholars have addressed “multilayer and network governance, public participation and mobilization, the role and influence of interest groups and business interests, and policy convergence,” along with “climate change and natural resources management” in their publications (Fahey & Pralle, , p. 44). During the period of time examined, researchers also have tackled critical questions concerning how to increase mobilization and participation for various actors, the role local governments play in addressing global issues, and how business interests influence policy…”

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Sustainability Policy Research: A Review and Synthesis

Armstrong¹,

Kamieniecki²

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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This paper reviews theoretical and empirical approaches drawn from influential journal articles and books on sustainability policy published over the last 10 years (2007 through 2017). Due to the widespread application of sustainability as a concept and space limitations, the paper more narrowly focuses on sustainability research in three critical policy areas: climate change, urban development, and agroecology and food systems. Drawing from information provided primarily by citation indexes, the study identifies and analyzes the research literature related to sustainability in these three fields. Future theoretical and empirical research approaches that can better integrate and connect the current diffuse and incongruent literature on sustainability are discussed in the paper. The findings of the literature review generate a number of possible future research directions that are discussed in the study.

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Governing Complexity: Recent Developments in Environmental Politics and Policy

Cited by 41 publications

References 71 publications

Applying Policy Process Theories to Environmental Governance Research: Themes and New Directions

Applying Policy Process Theories to Environmental Governance Research: Themes and New Directions

Cutting with both arms of the scissors: the economic and political case for restrictive supply-side climate policies

Sustainability Policy Research: A Review and Synthesis

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