Policy in motion: reassembling carbon pricing policy development in the personal transport sector in British Columbia

An alternative policy evaluation of the British Columbia carbon tax: broadening the application of Elinor Ostrom’s design principles for managing common-pool resources

“…The main objective of a carbon tax is to provide an economic incentive for reduction in fossil-fuel use by individuals, businesses, industry, and governments. When carbonbased fuels are not taxed, uncompensated environmental effects of production and consumption result in market externalities in the form of GHGs (Sodero 2011). By putting a price on carbon fuels, this policy attempts to internalize the environmental costs associated with these fuels' GHG emissions and thus encourage behavioral changes (Litman 2009, Sumner et al 2009).…”

Climate change advocacy and ecological modernization : the symbolic politics of carbon tax communication in British Columbia

“…This general trend is corroborated in my research sample o f blog posts, policy documents and independent media. 20 This is in line with popular arguments suggesting that the political force behind the carbon tax was largely dependent on the decisions o f Premier Campbell (see Harrison, 2012;Sodero, 2011;& Gunster, 2010). It is also noteworthy that Campbell himself later accepted the position o f federal high commissioner to the United Kingdom where he has lobbied against European low-carbon fuel standards that would discriminate against polluting sources of fuel, such as those from the Alberta tar sands (Dembecki, 2011).…”

“…Academic literature examining climate activism in the province is less robust than research focused on more traditional environmental conflicts. However, there remain a number o f accounts directly relevant to the development of the Liberal government's climate policy and the "about-face" which moved global warming to the centre of the political agenda (see next section; Sodero, 2011;Harrison, 2012;Gunster, 2010;Shaw, 2011;Peet & Harrison, 2012). By considering these bodies of research along with historical analyses of past environmental clashes, valuable perspectives on the discursive interactions that helped animate climate change discourse surrounding the carbon tax can be reconstructed.…”

“…release different amounts of various greenhouse gases and so must be translated into a common metric o f C02e. " See Sodero (2011Sodero ( , p. 1476. Harrison (2012, p. 393) also notes the NDP supported carbon taxation a few months before the Liberal's 2008 Budget announcement.…”

“…This policy reversal has been shown to be a function of the top-down decision-making that characterized much o f the Liberal climate program. Both Sodero (2011) andHarrison (2012) demonstrate that Liberal climate policy was driven primarily by the decisions of Premier Gordon Campbell, who was empowered by the centralizing authority afforded by the provincial majoritarian parliamentary system, at times against the will of his own caucus members. Harrison (2012;cf.…”