Norm domestication challenges for local climate actions: A lesson from Arizona, USA

IF 3 3区 社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Mahir Yazar
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Abstract

Research on norm domestication in multi-level governance structures is overlooked in urban climate governance and policy literature. This paper conceptualizes multi-scalar interactions of norm domestication for local climate actions. The city of Phoenix, which operates under the “purple” (blue cities and red legislatures) state of Arizona, is analyzed to illustrate how a local government can take up the climate actions left in the void at the state and federal levels. The empirical findings reveal important temporal politics at the state level that influenced the local government's climate norm domestication. The period of Democratic party leadership diffused climate norms at the state-level and positioned the local government more as a climate policy-taker, adopting decisions from the state legislature. Swings in the state-level executive orders under the subsequent period of Republican leadership, however, forced the local government to seek some common ground for norm domestication, usually related to the nonpartisan goals of economic development. Consequently, local climate actions are subject to depoliticization of climate change from the higher-level governance structures. Overall, decarbonization targets are not being directed in ways that lead to a broader shift in the socio-technical system but would support short-term emission reductions if multiple institutions, both at the state and sub-state levels, created spaces for collaboration rather than competition.

当地气候行动面临的规范驯化挑战:美国亚利桑那州的经验教训
在城市气候治理和政策文献中,对多层次治理结构中规范本土化的研究被忽视了。本文概念化了当地气候行动规范驯化的多标量相互作用。分析了在亚利桑那州“紫色”(蓝色城市和红色立法机构)下运作的凤凰城,以说明地方政府如何在州和联邦层面采取空白的气候行动。实证结果揭示了影响地方政府气候规范本土化的州一级重要的时间政治。民主党领导时期在州一级传播了气候规范,并将地方政府定位为气候政策制定者,通过州立法机构的决定。然而,在随后的共和党领导时期,州级行政命令的摇摆迫使地方政府为规范本土化寻求一些共同点,这通常与无党派的经济发展目标有关。因此,地方气候行动受到更高级别治理结构对气候变化非政治化的影响。总的来说,脱碳目标的指导方式并没有导致社会技术体系的更广泛转变,但如果州和次州层面的多个机构为合作而非竞争创造空间,则会支持短期减排。
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Environmental Policy and Governance
Environmental Policy and Governance ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-
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6.10
自引率
13.30%
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67
期刊介绍: Environmental Policy and Governance is an international, inter-disciplinary journal affiliated with the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE). The journal seeks to advance interdisciplinary environmental research and its use to support novel solutions in environmental policy and governance. The journal publishes innovative, high quality articles which examine, or are relevant to, the environmental policies that are introduced by governments or the diverse forms of environmental governance that emerge in markets and civil society. The journal includes papers that examine how different forms of policy and governance emerge and exert influence at scales ranging from local to global and in diverse developmental and environmental contexts.
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