Market-based environmental governance and public resources in Alberta, Canada

Hackett, Ryan

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.01.003

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“…The competition among these coalitions clarifies why the biodiversity-related offset markets widely studied in the literature are better explained as 'hybrids' 11,12 . While green neoliberalism aimed to render biodiversity fungible and operationalize markets to replace state-based regulation, the administrative rationalist legacy and the relative influence of other coalitions at different scales have limited the full materialization of this political project.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Critical research has analysed offsetting as a symptom of neoliberalization in Anglo-American contexts 8,9 and transnationally 10 . Case-based studies have challenged this narrative, showing hybrid mechanisms 11 and the involvement of the state and civil society in some offset programmes 12 .While international and transnational debates continue, there is now a proposition to introduce a NNL objective for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 13 . Here, we explore contesting interpretations of offsetting by harnessing critical social sciences to answer the question of which political projects have sat behind different interpretations of biodiversity offsetting.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The politics of biodiversity offsetting across time and institutional scales

2020

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Biodiversity offsetting-actions aimed to produce biodiversity gains to compensate for development impacts-has become an important but controversial instrument of sustainability governance. To understand how this occurred, we conducted a discourse analysis, iteratively applying a qualitative coding system to 197 policy documents produced between 1958 and 2019 across four institutional scales. We show that offsetting has historically been promoted by reformist approaches, which encourage economic growth without consideration of biocultural limits. More recently, those promoting more transformative approaches have reinterpreted offsetting as an instrument to transition towards sustainable economies respectful of planetary boundaries. However, we show that enacting this approach requires major structural governance changes that challenge the dominance of reformist coalitions across scales. Such changes would need to include a commitment by institutions to renounce non-essential projects and avoid damage and for offset stakeholders to become aware of how their contributions become enrolled in the service of specific discourses. Without such changes, offsetting risks structurally encouraging conservationists to produce natures compatible with a status quo development, rather than to advance transformative practices for biocultural diversity.

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confidence: 99%

The politics of biodiversity offsetting across time and institutional scales

2020

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“…For example, strong public support can ensure that environmental policies achieve emission reduction targets under weak environmental regulation [43]. As a wide-scale system of environmental information disclosure, public participation is expected theoretically to be the link between government-led vertical governance [44][45][46] and market-oriented horizontal governance [28,47]. However, the complementary effect is influenced by a wide range of factors, ranging from the promotion of information exchange mechanisms [48,49] to the optimization of governance strategies [50,51].…”

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A game theoretical model for the stimulation of public cooperation in environmental collaborative governance

2022

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Digital technologies provide a convenient way for the public to participate in environmental governance. Therefore, by means of a two-stage evolutionary model, a new mechanism for promoting public cooperation is proposed to accomplish environmental collaborative governance. Interactive effects of government–enterprise environmental governance are firstly explored, which is the external atmosphere for public behaviour. Second, the evolutionary dynamics of public behaviour is analysed to reveal the internal mechanism of the emergence of public cooperation in environmental collaborative governance projects. Simulations reveal that the interaction of resource elements between government and enterprise is an important basis for environmental governance performance, and that governments can improve this as well as public cooperation by increasing the marginal governance propensity. Similarly, an increase in the government's fixed expenditure item of environmental governance can also significantly improve government–enterprise performance and public cooperation. And finally, the effect of government's marginal incentive propensity on public environmental governance is moderated by enterprises' marginal environmental governance propensity, so that simply increasing the government's marginal incentive propensity cannot improve the evolutionary stable state of public behaviour under the scenario where enterprises’ marginal environmental governance propensity is low.

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“…The inability to move beyond set policy patterns is a significant signal to the entrenchment of free-market economic values in Alberta. This exists, despite the detriment to its people, state, and land (Hackett 2015). Harrison and Sundstrom (2007) indicate that voter apathy among American and Canadian voters is a significant reason for that lack of progress of climate change policy.…”

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Anthropological futures for the study of cultural resilience of ‘Western’ societies in the face of climate change

Paranich

2018

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Climate change, as a scientifically defined global phenomenon, threatens the cultural resiliency of societies the world over. Anthropology has accrued a rich body of ethnographic research that has illuminated the potential of cultural resiliency for indigenous and non-Western societies. This information is vital for understanding the political, social, and economic movement of these societies. However, the same research focus and academic rigor has not been applied to non-indigenous, Western societies. These societies have been examined for economic and ecological resilience, but there is a detrimental vacuum of ethnographic understanding. Research relevant to climate change is restricted to etic, survey analysis. This research is invaluable but cannot resolve deeper “why” questions regarding political, social, and economic movements in the West. Furthermore, the survey data from within Canada is severely limited, making any analysis of non-indigenous Canadian society vague and riddled with caveats. This paper discusses the academic neglect regarding the cultural resiliency of non-indigenous, Western societies. From existing literature, the author constructs a research framework for Alberta, Canada—the province placed at the crux of the national climate change debate. Anthropological institutions must ask themselves why this demographic is excluded from the same critical analysis applied to indigenous and non-Western societies and move to correct this discrepancy.

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Market-based environmental governance and public resources in Alberta, Canada

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 publications

The politics of biodiversity offsetting across time and institutional scales

The politics of biodiversity offsetting across time and institutional scales

A game theoretical model for the stimulation of public cooperation in environmental collaborative governance

Anthropological futures for the study of cultural resilience of ‘Western’ societies in the face of climate change

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