Cumulative Environmental Impacts: Science and Policy to Protect Communities
In: Annual Review of Public Health, Band 37, S. 83-96
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In: Annual Review of Public Health, Band 37, S. 83-96
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In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity ; the journal of the Society of Policy Scientists, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 23-36
ISSN: 0032-2687
In: Environmental science and pollution research: ESPR, Band 14, Heft 5, S. 281-283
ISSN: 1614-7499
In: Science in society series
In: Journal of policy modeling: JPMOD ; a social science forum of world issues, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 453-490
ISSN: 0161-8938
In: Scandinavian political studies: SPS ; a journal, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 19
ISSN: 0080-6757
In: Inter-American economic affairs, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 25-46
ISSN: 0020-4943
In: Policy studies journal: the journal of the Policy Studies Organization, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 401-424
ISSN: 1541-0072
Where policy goals can be achieved through regulation of private firms, private provision of public services allows governments to separate public policies from their political costs by shifting those costs to the private sector. Over the past three decades, financial decoupling has emerged as a regulatory strategy for promoting conservation, especially in the energy sector. Decoupling refers to the separation of a firm's revenues from the volume of its product consumed, which allows companies to pursue resource efficiency free from financial risk. Similarly, when private firms provide public services, they separate public policies from their political costs. This political decoupling allows governments to pursue controversial policies while avoiding their attendant political risks. Applied to environmental policy, this theory implies that potentially unpopular conservation policies are more likely to be adopted and succeed when implemented through private firms. As an initial test of the theory, we analyze California water utilities and their responses to that state's drought from 2015–2017. Analysis shows that, compared with those served by local government utilities, private utilities adopted more aggressive conservation measures, were more likely to meet state conservation standards, and conserved more water.
In: Science & public policy: SPP ; journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 28, Heft 6, S. 427-437
ISSN: 0302-3427, 0036-8245
In: Journal of policy modeling: JPMOD ; a social science forum of world issues, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 453-489
ISSN: 0161-8938
In: Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 69-90
ISSN: 1472-3425
Implementation lies at the 'sharp end' of the European Union (EU) environmental policy process. The success of the EU's policies must ultimately be judged by the impact they have on the ground, but despite many institutional initiatives, poor implementation remains a fact of life in Europe. In this paper the author investigates why the issue of poor implementation was neglected during the first decade of EU environmental policy, outlines the responsibilities and interests of the main actors involved in putting policies into effect, and discusses possible solutions to the well-publicised 'gap' between policy goals and outcomes. Implementation deficits will be difficult to eradicate completely because they serve to maintain the delicate 'balance' between governmental and supranational elements in the EU.
A plethora of new actors has in recent years entered China's environmental arena. In Western countries, the linkages and diffusion processes between such actors often drive environmental movements. Through a study of Chinese anti-incineration contention, *Chinese Environmental Contention: Linking Up against Waste Incineration* investigates how the different contentious actors in China's green sphere link up, and what this means for environmental contention. It addresses questions such as: What lies behind the notable increase of environmental protests in China? And what are the potentials for the emergence of an environmental movement? The book shows that a complex network of ties has emerged in China's environmental realm under Hu Jintao. Affected communities across the country have connected with each other and with national-level environmentalists, experts and lawyers. Such networked contention fosters both local campaigns and national-level policy advocacy. Beyond China, the detailed case studies shed light on the dynamics behind the diffusion of contention under restrictive political conditions.
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In: International studies review, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 333-335
ISSN: 1468-2486
In: Suomen Akatemian julkaisuja 1992,3
Behavioural public policy has thus far been dominated by approaches that are based on the premise that it is entirely legitimate for policymakers to design policies that nudge or influence people to avoid desires that may not be in their own self- interest. This book argues, instead, for a liberal political economy that radically departs from these paternalistic frameworks. Oliver argues for a framework whereby those who impose no substantive harms on others ought to be free of manipulative or coercive interference. On this view, BPP does not seek to "correct" an individual's conception of the desired life. This book is the third in a trilogy of books by Adam Oliver on the origins and conceptual foundations of BPP.