Regulatory capture by default: Offshore exploratory drilling for oil and gas

Portman, Michelle Ε.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2013.10.010

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“…And yet, international organizations that advise and support marine planning processes around the world, such as UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, posit that it is a vital part of any such processes (Ehler and Douvere, 2009). Stakeholder participation can reduce conflicts among users of marine space (Ehler, 2008;Yates, 2018) and is critical for marine planning due to the public nature of marine resources and the need for integration in planning and management, including several dimensions at spatial, temporal and governance levels (Smith et al, 2009;Portman, 2014).…”

Section: Transparent and Inclusive Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Twelve Recommendations for Advancing Marine Conservation in European and Contiguous Seas

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Like most ocean regions today, the European and contiguous seas experience cumulative impacts from local human activities and global pressures. They are largely in poor environmental condition with deteriorating trends. Despite several success stories, European policies for marine conservation fall short of being effective. Acknowledging the challenges for marine conservation, a 4-year multinational network, MarCons, supported collaborative marine conservation efforts to bridge the gap between science, management and policy, aiming to contribute in reversing present negative trends. By consolidating a large network of more than 100 scientists from 26 countries, and conducting a series of workshops over 4 years (2016-2020), MarCons analyzed challenges, opportunities and obstacles for advancing marine conservation in the European and contiguous seas. Here, we synthesize the major issues that emerged from this analysis and make 12 key recommendations for policy makers, marine managers, and researchers. To increase the effectiveness of marine conservation planning, we recommend (1) designing coherent networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the framework of marine spatial planning (MSP) and applying systematic conservation planning principles, including re-evaluation of existing management zones, (2) designing MPA networks within a broader transboundary planning framework, and (3) implementing integrated land-freshwater-sea approaches. To address inadequate or poorly informed management, we recommend (4) developing and implementing

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Section: Transparent and Inclusive Conservationmentioning

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Twelve Recommendations for Advancing Marine Conservation in European and Contiguous Seas

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“…The activity that has had the greatest bearing on initiation of the TIMP is natural gas extraction. Most recently-confirmed (since 2010) large natural gas reserves are located beyond Israel's territorial sea in the country's potential EEZ regarding which laws, especially environmental and planning laws, do not apply [35,36]. This has caused an atmosphere of both uncertainty and heightened interest in marine planning and policy.…”

Section: The Israel Marine Planmentioning

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“…Articulation of goals is highly language dependent and would be clear of bias if the products and analysis were not translation-dependent. Additionally, the national planning framework in the State of Israel is relatively centralized and it highly influences both development and conservation [see [36]], such that any national ocean policy development might take place within the planning framework even if it had no aspiration to be spatially-oriented.…”

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Marine spatial planning in the Middle East: Crossing the policy-planning divide

Portman

2015

Marine Policy

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“…Regulatory capture undermines the capability of the state to remedy market failures, to regulate business activities, to redistribute income and wealth, and to contribute to social welfare (Bénabou and Tirole ; Kees and Yurchenko ; O'Hara ; Scherer and Palazzo ). This is a prevalent problem in, for example, the financial (Perrow ; Underhill and Zhang ), extracting (Carpenter ; Portman ) or automotive (Greens/EFA Group ) industries, which suffer from regulatory capture at the expense of the public interest. Thus, by facilitating political strategies in the corporate world, CPA scholarship puts public welfare at risk (see critically Mantere et al .…”

Section: Frynas and Stephens’ Assessment: Its Contributions And Its Lmentioning

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Theory Assessment and Agenda Setting in Political CSR: A Critical Theory Perspective

Scherer

2017

Int J Management Reviews

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Frynas and Stephens (Political corporate social responsibility: reviewing theories and setting new agendas. International Journal of Management Reviews, 17, pp. 483-509, 2015) reviewed the literature on political corporate social responsibility (CSR). They described existing trends and suggested an agenda for future research. They attempted to develop 'a more inclusive pluralist research agenda in political CSR, which can integrate different perspectives on political CSR in order to account for different phenomena, including global governance changes at macro level, instrumental concerns at organizational level or cognitive dimensions at individual level, in both descriptive and normative terms'. This was an ambitious endeavour, given the rapid growth of the literature and the extensive heterogeneity of the field. There is much to like in Frynas and Stephens' paper, as it spans a broad range of perspectives and links together discrete research topics. In the present review, however, the author focuses on a number of critical aspects in their argument. Frynas and Stephens failed to define core concepts, to reveal their normative stance on CSR and their paradigmatic position, or to address the inherent conflict of values in political CSR. And they were too optimistic about the possibilities and benefits of 'integration'. The author suspects that their approach, when adopted in practice, will impede rather than promote social welfare. This paper starts with a brief summary of the field and continues by emphasizing critical issues in Frynas and Stephens' analysis. It concludes with an alternative agenda for research in political CSR.

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Regulatory capture by default: Offshore exploratory drilling for oil and gas

Cited by 20 publications

References 17 publications

Twelve Recommendations for Advancing Marine Conservation in European and Contiguous Seas

Twelve Recommendations for Advancing Marine Conservation in European and Contiguous Seas

Marine spatial planning in the Middle East: Crossing the policy-planning divide

Theory Assessment and Agenda Setting in Political CSR: A Critical Theory Perspective

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