Refining Reflexive Environmental Law by Nature and Nurture: Autonomy, Accountability, and Adjustability

IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Violet Ross, Lucila de Almeida
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Abstract

Reflexive environmental law (REL) enables an understanding of how law builds potential for private company reflexivity. Reflexivity helps to avoid lock-in, and enhances learning and self-organization to resolve complex sustainability challenges. Thus far, REL theory has excluded traditional command-and-control regulation as a form of REL. This limits the potential of REL to understand how legislation can drive reflexivity and create more effective governance. Our framework expands the definition of REL and sets out six types of regulatory instrument found in legislation that may, or may not, constitute forms of REL. The framework comprises three reflexive drivers – autonomy, accountability, and adjustability – and, under these, eleven REL techniques. Through examples taken from European environmental legislation, we explain the drivers’ relationship with different regulatory instruments. This taxonomy empowers regulators and scholars to understand both the reflexive potential of regulatory instruments and the possibility to make instruments more reflexive in specific contexts.

通过自然和养育完善反思性环境法:自主性、问责制和可调整性
反思性环境法(REL)使人们能够理解法律如何为私营公司的反思性挖掘潜力。反思性有助于避免锁定,并加强学习和自我组织,以解决复杂的可持续发展挑战。迄今为止,REL 理论一直将传统的命令与控制监管排除在 REL 之外。这限制了 REL 在理解立法如何推动反身性和创造更有效治理方面的潜力。我们的框架扩展了 REL 的定义,列出了立法中可能构成或不构成 REL 形式的六类监管工具。该框架包括三个反思性驱动因素--自主性、问责制和可调整性--以及在这些驱动因素下的 11 种 REL 技术。通过欧洲环境立法中的实例,我们解释了这些驱动因素与不同监管工具之间的关系。该分类法有助于监管者和学者了解监管工具的反思潜力,以及在特定情况下使监管工具更具反思性的可能性。
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