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This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of
environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis
and environmental politics, and reflects on the first thirty years
of the journal, Environmental Politics. The book has two purposes.
The first is to identify and discuss the key themes that have
driven scholarship in the field of environmental politics over the
last three decades, and to highlight how this has also led to
oversights and silences, and the marginalisation of important forms
of analysis and thought. As several chapters in the book explore,
problem-solving frameworks have increasingly taken away space from
more radical systemic challenge and critique, as the key themes of
environmental politics have become ever more central to the field
of politics as a whole - and as our understandings of social and
environmental crisis become ever clearer and more urgent. The
second purpose of the volume is to map out a series of new and
developing agendas for environmental politics. The chapters in this
volume focus foremost on questions of justice, materiality, and
power. Discussing state violence, multispecies justice, epistemic
injustice, the circular economy, NGOs, parties, green transition,
and urban climate governance, they call above all for greater
attention to intersectionality and interdisciplinarity, and for
centering key insights about power relations and socio-economic
inequalities into increasingly widespread, yet also often
depoliticised, topics in the study of environmental politics. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of Environmental Politics.
This book assesses how governance has evolved in six nations –
England, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands –
between 1970 and 2018. More specifically, it examines how the
governance approaches and the sets of policy tools used to govern
have altered with respect to four public policy sectors that
represent core responsibilities of the modern OECD state:
education, energy, environment and health. To structure this
analytical approach, the book harnesses sociological
institutionalism in the area of ‘policy sequencing’ to trace
both the motivations and the consequences of policy-makers’
altering governance approaches and the resulting policy tools.
Combining a comparative and international focus, this book will
appeal to scholars and students of public policy and governance.
Many highly industrialized countries are rapidly adopting new
environmental policy instruments (NEPIs) such as eco-taxes,
tradable permits, voluntary agreements and eco-labels. This
apparently profound shift has prompted widespread claims that NEPIs
have eclipsed regulation as the preferred tool of environmental
policy. This volume offers a fresh perspective on the evolving
tool-box of environmental policy by providing a systematic analysis
of the policy and politics surrounding the adoption and use of the
main NEPIs in a variety of countries. By blending political
theories with fresh empirical material, the contributors to this
interdisciplinary volume assess the claim that NEPIs have
supplanted regulation, heralding a new era of environmental
governance in which the state plays a secondary role in
sustainability policy-making.
This book assesses how governance has evolved in six nations -
England, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands -
between 1970 and 2018. More specifically, it examines how the
governance approaches and the sets of policy tools used to govern
have altered with respect to four public policy sectors that
represent core responsibilities of the modern OECD state:
education, energy, environment and health. To structure this
analytical approach, the book harnesses sociological
institutionalism in the area of 'policy sequencing' to trace both
the motivations and the consequences of policy-makers' altering
governance approaches and the resulting policy tools. Combining a
comparative and international focus, this book will appeal to
scholars and students of public policy and governance.
Many highly industrialized countries are rapidly adopting new
environmental policy instruments (NEPIs) such as eco-taxes,
tradable permits, voluntary agreements and eco-labels. This
apparently profound shift has prompted widespread claims that NEPIs
have eclipsed regulation as the preferred tool of environmental
policy. This volume offers a fresh perspective on the evolving
tool-box of environmental policy by providing a systematic analysis
of the policy and politics surrounding the adoption and use of the
main NEPIs in a variety of countries. By blending political
theories with fresh empirical material, the contributors to this
interdisciplinary volume assess the claim that NEPIs have
supplanted regulation, heralding a new era of environmental
governance in which the state plays a secondary role in
sustainability policy-making.
'This book fills an important gap in the environmental governance
literature, addressing governance at a lower level of abstraction
than other texts and examining how it plays out in relation to
specific modes and instruments of governing. It also contributes
towards governance theory-building efforts through the development
of an empirically relevant analytical framework. In so doing it
provides a firm underpinning for assessing whether, to what extent
and in what ways there has been a transition from government
towards governance in environmental policy.' - Neil Gunningham,
Australian National University'Theoretically sophisticated and
empirically rich, this book provides an overview of the
introduction, development, and use of new policy instruments and
new modes of environmental governance in the European context,
taking into account both national and European Union experiences.
This is a welcome addition to the field!' - Miranda Schreurs,
Environmental Policy Research Centre and Free University of Berlin,
Germany European governance has witnessed dramatic changes in
recent decades. By assessing the use of 'new' environmental policy
instruments in European Union countries including the United
Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Austria, this timely book
analyses whether traditional forms of top-down government have
given way to less hierarchical governance instruments, which rely
strongly on societal self-steering and/or market forces. The
authors provide important new theoretical insights as well as fresh
empirical detail on why, and in what form, these instruments are
being adopted within and across different levels of governance,
along with analysis of the often-overlooked interactions between
the instrument types. Providing important new theoretical insights
into the governance debate by combining institutionalist and policy
learning/transfer approaches, this book will be invaluable for both
undergraduate and postgraduate students. The analytical insights as
well as a thorough empirical assessment of the use of environmental
policy instruments in practice will prove essential for
environmental policy specialists/practitioners. Contents: Preface
Part I: Introduction 1. Environmental Policy: From Government to
Governance? Part II: Context 2. Governing by Policy Instruments:
Theories and Analytical Concepts 3. Changing Institutional Contexts
for the Use of Policy Instruments Part III: Governing by New
Instruments 4. Governing by Informational Means 5. Governing by
Voluntary Means 6. Governing by Eco-taxes 7. Governing by Emissions
Trading Part IV: Emerging Patterns of Governing 8. Changing
Patterns of Environmental Policy Instrument Use 9. Out with the
'Old' and in with the 'New'? Governing with Policy Instruments
Bibliography Index
'This book fills an important gap in the environmental governance
literature, addressing governance at a lower level of abstraction
than other texts and examining how it plays out in relation to
specific modes and instruments of governing. It also contributes
towards governance theory-building efforts through the development
of an empirically relevant analytical framework. In so doing it
provides a firm underpinning for assessing whether, to what extent
and in what ways there has been a transition from government
towards governance in environmental policy.' - Neil Gunningham,
Australian National University'Theoretically sophisticated and
empirically rich, this book provides an overview of the
introduction, development, and use of new policy instruments and
new modes of environmental governance in the European context,
taking into account both national and European Union experiences.
This is a welcome addition to the field!' - Miranda Schreurs,
Environmental Policy Research Centre and Free University of Berlin,
Germany European governance has witnessed dramatic changes in
recent decades. By assessing the use of 'new' environmental policy
instruments in European Union countries including the United
Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Austria, this timely book
analyses whether traditional forms of top-down government have
given way to less hierarchical governance instruments, which rely
strongly on societal self-steering and/or market forces. The
authors provide important new theoretical insights as well as fresh
empirical detail on why, and in what form, these instruments are
being adopted within and across different levels of governance,
along with analysis of the often-overlooked interactions between
the instrument types. Providing important new theoretical insights
into the governance debate by combining institutionalist and policy
learning/transfer approaches, this book will be invaluable for both
undergraduate and postgraduate students. The analytical insights as
well as a thorough empirical assessment of the use of environmental
policy instruments in practice will prove essential for
environmental policy specialists/practitioners. Contents: Preface
Part I: Introduction 1. Environmental Policy: From Government to
Governance? Part II: Context 2. Governing by Policy Instruments:
Theories and Analytical Concepts 3. Changing Institutional Contexts
for the Use of Policy Instruments Part III: Governing by New
Instruments 4. Governing by Informational Means 5. Governing by
Voluntary Means 6. Governing by Eco-taxes 7. Governing by Emissions
Trading Part IV: Emerging Patterns of Governing 8. Changing
Patterns of Environmental Policy Instrument Use 9. Out with the
'Old' and in with the 'New'? Governing with Policy Instruments
Bibliography Index
The Future of European Union Environmental Politics and Policy
investigates the trajectory of European Union (EU) environmental
policy and reflects on how this hugely vital policy area of the EU
has evolved over the decades. Gathering together a selection of the
leading scholars working on European environmental policy, the
volume assesses the extent to which change has occurred in
important dimensions of EU environmental policy research. These
dimensions include the EU's values and approaches; the provision of
leadership; the possibilities of Brexit and the dismantling of
policies; policy instruments and climate change; policy
implementation and enforcement; and policy evaluation. The
contributors situate their research in the context of current
developments and conditions, including the global economic
challenges and the rise of political challenges to both European
governance and integration. Each chapter reviews the EU
environmental policy over the long term and assesses the
implications of current developments for the future health of
European environmental policy, European integration and the
environment itself. The Future of European Union Environmental
Politics and Policy will be of great interest to scholars of
environmental politics, environmental governance and EU policy. The
chapters were originally published as a special issue of
Environmental Politics.
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