Stability and climate policy? Harnessing insights on path dependence, policy feedback, and transition pathways

Energy Research & Social Science, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 50, P. 168 - 178

Published: Dec. 20, 2018

Language: Английский

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Seven Principles of Strong Climate Change Planning

Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 86(1), P. 39 - 46

Published: Dec. 6, 2019

As greenhouse gas emissions and climate change impacts increase worldwide, there is an urgent need for communities, thus urban planners, to simultaneously mitigate adapt change. We synthesize recent research examine whether the field of planning adequately addressing conclude that although has been progress in years, it insufficient given scope challenge myriad ways negatively affect communities. argue seven principles strong planning: 1) clear goals; 2) fact base; 3) diverse strategies; 4) public participation; 5) coordination across actors, sectors, plans; 6) processes implementation monitoring; 7) techniques address uncertainty. For each these we discuss current state practice.

Language: Английский

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From emissions trading to the European Green Deal: the evolution of the climate policy mix and climate policy integration in the EU

Journal of European Public Policy, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 30(3), P. 445 - 468

Published: Sept. 9, 2022

This article analyses the development of mix EU climate policy instruments and level integration (CPI) in twenty-first century. Complementing established criteria ambition stringency, analysis instrument CPI enables a fuller assessment transformational potential governance. We argue that both have significantly advanced towards matching 'super-wicked' nature challenge, although important gaps challenges remain addressing all relevant sectors, barriers drivers. First, governance has 'thickened' through stepwise layering various economic, regulatory, procedural, informational instruments. Second, this thickening gone hand with an expansion strengthening CPI. The European Green Deal promises to further complement universalise prioritise CPI, but major initiatives be proposed realised for propel needed comprehensive transformation.

Language: Английский

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EU climate and energy governance in times of crisis: towards a new agenda

Journal of European Public Policy, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 28(7), P. 959 - 979

Published: June 9, 2021

The EU has long pursued relatively ambitious climate and energy policies, often against the backdrop of what been termed ‘polycrisis’. This paper introduces a special issue which seeks to develop better understanding why, how with consequences polycrisis governance have influenced each other. It draws on novel framework five broad crisis trends underlying polycrisis. Most contributions suggest that advanced significantly despite, sometimes even because of, trends. countervailing effects effectiveness actors’ strategies advance policy opponents go way explaining this puzzling finding. As fully decarbonise itself by 2050, interactions are likely intensify in ways future research could fruitfully investigate.

Language: Английский

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The political challenges of deep decarbonisation: towards a more integrated agenda

Climate Action, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 1(1)

Published: March 18, 2022

Abstract Adopting public policies to deliver the ambitious long-term goals of Paris Agreement will require significant societal commitment. That commitment eventually emerge from interaction between policies, publics and politicians. This article has two main aims. First, it reviews existing literatures on these three identify salient research gaps. It finds that work focused one aspect rather than dynamic interactions them all. Second, sets out a more integrated agenda explores three-way publics, reveals greater integration is required understand better conditions under which different political systems address dilemmas. In absence integration, there risk policymakers cling prominent but partial policy prescriptions: ‘democracy’ itself problem should be suspended; deliberative forms democracy are without explaining how they co-exist with forms.

Language: Английский

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Three decades of EU climate policy: Racing toward climate neutrality?

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: Oct. 15, 2023

Abstract The European Union (EU) began developing climate policy in the 1990s. Since then, it has built up a broad portfolio of mitigation measures and governance tools, including legally binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, addressing emissions trading, renewable energy, energy efficiency, more. In 2019, Commission—the EU's executive arm—published Green Deal (EGD), an overarching framework achieve goal neutrality by 2050. EGD aims push EU far beyond incremental development. this article, we ask: does represent break from past patterns governance? We argue that maintains several patterns, but nevertheless breaks other established trends. review insights politicization new institutionalist theoretical lenses help us understand these findings. reveal certain tensions challenges inherent approach—around speed coherence, effectiveness just transition—that highlight future research needs, raise questions about ability implement its goals. This article is categorized under: Policy Governance > Multilevel Transnational Climate Change

Language: Английский

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The role of actors in the policy design process: introducing design coalitions to explain policy output

Policy Sciences, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 53(2), P. 309 - 347

Published: Dec. 14, 2019

Language: Английский

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Designing policy for the long term: agency, policy feedback and policy change

Policy Sciences, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 53(2), P. 243 - 252

Published: May 26, 2020

Language: Английский

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Driving the European Green Deal in Turbulent Times

Politics and Governance, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 9(3), P. 316 - 326

Published: Sept. 30, 2021

The European Green Deal (EGD) is an ambitious strategy. However, significant events, incidents, and demands, from democratic backsliding in the EU to Covid-19 pandemic, are causing ground shift underfoot. These events go beyond ordinary changes or even individual crises, cumulatively fuelling a “new normal” of turbulence for EU, encompassing rapid, unpredictable changes. This can help hinder policy design implementation, requiring actors think outside box status quo. article investigates how Commission other key engage effectively <em>with</em> ensure successful delivery implementation EGD. first half strengthens adapts turbulent governance literature (Ansell &amp; Trondal, 2018). It delineates differs crisis; expands forms include horizontal scalar turbulence, as well its transversal attribute; shifts focus governing rather than against<em> </em>turbulence. second undertakes initial analysis EGD light provides springboard further investigations within this thematic issue beyond. apparent that both responding contributing varied landscape turbulence. Policy must identify understand sources turbulence—including their nature potential responses increase turbulence—if they govern

Language: Английский

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Bringing the Environment Back In: Overcoming the Tragedy of the Diffusion of the Commons Metaphor

Perspectives on Politics, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 21(2), P. 478 - 501

Published: Feb. 4, 2022

Contrary to calls for increased relevance, the discipline of political science has had lasting impacts in shaping environmental policy analysis. The ideas and approach advocated by former APSA president Elinor Ostrom, most comprehensively articulated Governing Commons , have diffused shape or reinforce generations sustainability scholarship. We identify four “ideal type” problem conceptions that are distinguished based on their consistency inconsistency with Ostrom’s inductive structure economic welfare emphasis, corresponding schools each: commons (Type 1), optimization 2), compromise 3), prioritization 4). Whereas school seeks understand lessons minimizing impact human activity natural environment, diffusion commons’ metaphor led scientists champion frameworks bias Type 3, 2, 1 orientations. latter all rest moral underpinnings promote material interests as goal, rather than recognizing them also a primary cause degradation. A fundamental conceptual reorientation is required if social general, particular, generate an understanding tools ameliorating exacerbating today’s 4 climate change species extinction crises.

Language: Английский

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