The Role of Universities in Private Environmental Governance Experimentalism

IF 4.2 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Sarah E. Light
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Abstract

In our federal, constitutional system of government, the states are often lauded as “laboratories of experimentation” for public policy, including for public environmental law. Yet private actors are playing an increasingly important role as parallel regulators through the adoption of private environmental governance. Private environmental governance can functionally advance one of federalism’s core values: policy experimentalism. To the extent that private governance by business firms arouses skepticism for this experimental role because firms’ motives to achieve profit in a competitive environment differ from the incentives motivating public regulators, private universities offer an alternative institutional locus for experimentalism. Using Yale University’s recent adoption of a private carbon charge as a case study, this article argues that universities should play a greater role in private environmental governance experimentalism, and are worthy of more scholarly focus.
大学在私人环境治理中的作用——实验主义
在我们的联邦宪政政府体系中,各州经常被誉为公共政策(包括公共环境法)的“实验实验室”。然而,通过采用私人环境治理,私人行为者作为平行监管机构正在发挥越来越重要的作用。私人环境治理可以在功能上推进联邦制的核心价值之一:政策实验主义。由于企业在竞争环境中实现利润的动机不同于激励公共监管机构的动机,因此商业公司的私人治理引起了对这种实验作用的怀疑,私立大学为实验主义提供了另一种制度场所。本文以耶鲁大学最近采用的私人碳收费为例,认为大学应该在私人环境治理实验主义中发挥更大的作用,值得更多的学术关注。
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11.20
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5.70%
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19
期刊介绍: Organization & Environment encourages informed discussion about the social roots and consequences of environmental problems and stimulates deeper reflection on the meaning and significance of the natural world. By critically examining the impact of human production and consumption systems on the natural environment, Organization & Environment develops new perspectives on organizations that encourage environmentally sensitive reflection, inquiry, and practice.
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