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Policy integration by implementation: Lessons from frontline staff policy practices around small-scale gold mining in Liberia 通过实施整合政策：利比里亚小规模采金业一线工作人员政策实践的经验教训

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2023-08-08 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2071

Rebecca K. Fallah, Jaap Evers, Leon M. Hermans

{"title":"Policy integration by implementation: Lessons from frontline staff policy practices around small-scale gold mining in Liberia","authors":"Rebecca K. Fallah, Jaap Evers, Leon M. Hermans","doi":"10.1002/eet.2071","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2071","url":null,"abstract":"Environmental policy integration is needed to ensure environmental policy goals are being realized, given their cross-sectoral nature. Most of the published research has focused on integration and coherence of (inter)national policies, plans, and programs. The implementation practices for these policies, however, are at least as important. This paper therefore looks at policy implementation for the case of artisanal gold mining in Liberia. This is studied through a lens of frontline staff (street-level bureaucrats) who operate in networks of local government agencies, civil society organizations, and communities. Results of interviews and field observations in Grand Gedeh county show how the policy context and local realities create specific dilemmas, resulting from the combination of limited resources of local frontline staff, low-income security for local communities and traditional local practices around protected forest areas. In response local frontline bureaucrats use their discretionary power and network to mobilize support, pool resources, combine mandates, and find creative solutions to both regulate and support community residents. Although these implementation strategies are neither necessarily sufficient to realize the official policy goals, nor are guaranteed to have the desired effects, they do show how local frontline staff act as de facto policymakers. Recognizing frontline staff as environmental policy integrators therefore is a crucial element toward more successful policies for sustainable development.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 2","pages":"193-206"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77372903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Setting ‘green’ boundaries for Chinese green finance: Multi-level governance and regulatory stringency 为中国绿色金融设定 "绿色 "边界：多层次治理和严格监管

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2066

Wenting Cheng, Kai Zhang

{"title":"Setting ‘green’ boundaries for Chinese green finance: Multi-level governance and regulatory stringency","authors":"Wenting Cheng, Kai Zhang","doi":"10.1002/eet.2066","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2066","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on setting ‘green’ boundaries for green finance in China—the scope of eligible ‘green’ projects to be supported by Chinese green finance. China started building its green finance system in 2015, and 23 provinces issued guidelines on green finance between 2016 and 2020. Applying multi-level governance as our analytical framework, this study collects data from a broad range of publicly available sources, including 64 policies issued by Chinese state ministries, provinces or pilot zones, transcripts of relevant press conferences, and streamed speeches given by relevant stakeholders in online workshops. We explain who governs the ‘green’ boundary of Chinese green finance, how it is governed, and the implication for regulatory stringency. We identify three levels of regulators involved in setting green boundaries—central ministries through the horizontal allocation of overlapping mandates, provinces through vague references and priority lists, and green finance pilot zones through vertical knowledge co-production. We argue that continuous multi-level negotiation and coordination dynamics determine the ‘green’ boundary in Chinese green finance, which further influences regulatory stringency. While several provinces and a pilot zone did temporarily prioritise industries with local competitive advantages (as exemplified by clean coal) as eligible to be supported by green bonds, the central government disapproved of such practices by its strong coordinating authority. The regulatory stringency was also safeguarded by the influence of transnational networks and China's decarbonisation objectives.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 2","pages":"180-192"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73644097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The roles of community-based organizations in socializing sustainable behavior: Examining the urban case of Budapest, Hungary 社区组织在可持续行为社会化方面的作用：匈牙利布达佩斯城市案例研究

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2069

Tamas Veress, Gabriella Kiss, Agnes Neulinger

{"title":"The roles of community-based organizations in socializing sustainable behavior: Examining the urban case of Budapest, Hungary","authors":"Tamas Veress, Gabriella Kiss, Agnes Neulinger","doi":"10.1002/eet.2069","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2069","url":null,"abstract":"This research supports the argument that community-based organizations (CBOs) can be effective vehicles to shift societal norms and expectations in order to facilitate co-creation and acceptability of new and sustainable ways of living. CBOs are conceptualized as meso-level entities where sustainable behavior can be socialized through not-for-profit and socioecological-oriented approaches, a unique position in a market society. To learn what roles CBOs fulfill when providing space for peer interactions influencing sustainable behavior, a qualitative research study was carried out based on 21 interviews with key stakeholders from CBOs working in different sustainability-related fields (mobility, food, energy, etc.) in the urban context of Budapest, Hungary. The grouping and interpretation of interview data show that the sampled urban CBOs can impact sustainable behavior through (1) raising members' awareness; (2) influencing everyday practices; and (3) providing space for non-consumerist peer interactions. These impacts can be exercised through the three roles of translation, reinforcement, and contribution. Translation covers the practical-cognitive (why it is important and how to do it) dimensions of peer interactions, while reinforcement and contribution are psychological-emotional factors, the former being directed toward adopting individual practices (through positive reinforcement), the latter pointing to the collective, the common good to which one feels one is contributing. These results imply that sustainability-oriented policymaking could support the sustainability transition by co-designing systems of provisions together with the affected communities.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 2","pages":"166-179"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90479416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio-technical systems 愿景对分散的社会技术系统中利益组织间合作的影响

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2023-06-28 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2070

J. P. Wesche, S. O. Negro, H. I. Brugger, W. Eichhammer, M. P. Hekkert

{"title":"The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio-technical systems","authors":"J. P. Wesche, S. O. Negro, H. I. Brugger, W. Eichhammer, M. P. Hekkert","doi":"10.1002/eet.2070","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2070","url":null,"abstract":"The paper shows that visions of the future can be used as a predictor of cooperation and division between actors in their efforts to shape the institutional environment, specifically policy in socio-technical systems. Accordingly, the paper suggests a new method to analyze visions: a virtual solution space in which visions can be grouped according to their similarity. The similarity of visions is calculated based on cluster analysis. Empirically, the paper focuses on the networks between industry associations in the heating transition in the German building sector. It shows that actors whose visions of future socio-technical system developments overlap are more likely to cooperate with each other. It also suggests that the fragmentation of the residential heating system in Germany is reflected in a fragmented actor network. Furthermore, the authors show that shared technological interests can outweigh similar visions. These fragmented technological interests hinder meaningful cooperation. This is potentially one reason why a powerful low-carbon heating coalition in Germany that could facilitate an accelerated deployment of low-carbon heat systems by driving policy change has not emerged to date. The paper contributes to a better understanding of how niche actors in sustainability transitions use their agency and specifically strategize to bring about institutional change. In this respect, the authors discuss how differing levels of system-fragmentation influence transition dynamics in general and institutional change dynamics in particular.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 2","pages":"152-165"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83525132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Challenging state authority and hierarchical power: A case study of the engagement of Peru's Amazonian Indigenous Peoples' organizations in the governance of REDD+ 挑战国家权威和等级权力：秘鲁亚马逊土著人民组织参与 REDD+ 治理的案例研究

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2023-06-03 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2067

Liliana Lozano Flores, Deborah Delgado Pugley, Santiago Casas Luna, Pieter Van den Broeck, Constanza Parra

{"title":"Challenging state authority and hierarchical power: A case study of the engagement of Peru's Amazonian Indigenous Peoples' organizations in the governance of REDD+","authors":"Liliana Lozano Flores, Deborah Delgado Pugley, Santiago Casas Luna, Pieter Van den Broeck, Constanza Parra","doi":"10.1002/eet.2067","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2067","url":null,"abstract":"The reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) mechanism is a climate change mitigation policy tool widely used in tropical forested countries that faces institutional and governance challenges in its implementation. Peru provides a particularly rich case study to analyze the agency of Amazonian Indigenous Peoples' organizations (IPOs) in the development of a national REDD+ policy. We examine the multi-scalar interaction between the Peruvian State and IPOs in the governance of REDD+, identifying the role of Amazonian Indigenous groups in this process. Drawing on socio-ecological governance and political economy approaches, we analyze data collected through interviews and participant observation. The article provides a case study of how IPOs work within the evolving governance system of REDD+ in Peru—both in responding to opportunities and in shaping the emergent system. Furthermore, it reveals that IPOs' rights and equity frame—deployed through several multi-scalar strategies—has finally found a place in Peru's REDD+ governance. This has resulted in a more pluralistic mode of coordination between the State and IPOs and in the increase of the socio-political empowerment of Indigenous Peoples. Our analysis suggests that Peru's REDD+ policies could progress toward more equitable outcomes through a true operationalization of cohesiveness and inclusiveness that encourages a meaningful relationship building between the state and Indigenous Peoples.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 2","pages":"137-151"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76383511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy 探索挪威碳捕集与封存政策的路径与创新

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2023-05-29 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2068

Jørgen Wettestad, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg, Lars H. Gulbrandsen

{"title":"Exploring paths and innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy","authors":"Jørgen Wettestad, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg, Lars H. Gulbrandsen","doi":"10.1002/eet.2068","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2068","url":null,"abstract":"Norway, a significant petroleum producer and exporter, has been a frontrunner within policies for carbon capture and storage (CCS). As CCS is recognized as a key technology for achieving the Paris climate policy targets, there is a clear need for more knowledge about how to design successful projects. Norway's first CCS policy initiative, the ambitious Mongstad project, was the result of a political compromise that was imposed from above, basically with one single company in control. The project was largely seen as a failure and was terminated in 2013. However, instead of dropping ambitions for developing CCS projects, the authorities launched a new policy soon afterwards. This policy evolved with the differently organized Longship CCS project as its core. Using a path-dependency perspective, we find that established institutional structures from the Mongstad project, combined with national interests and expertise, help to explain the fundamental continuity of CCS policies in Norway. This explanation is supplemented by a policy-learning perspective, which helps to explain policy changes and differences between the two flagship CCS projects. The Longship project developed gradually ‘from below’; linked project responsibilities close to competences and interests; dealt with key risks separately to reduce the inherent complexity; and organized clear requirements up front. We hold that this way of designing CCS projects is of relevance to other countries considering CCS projects. Furthermore, by placing the Norwegian case in context of the development of EU and international climate policy we contribute a theoretical framework relevant also for subsequent research.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 2","pages":"125-136"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77855508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring friendship in hydropolitics: The case of the friendship dam on the Asi/Orontes river 探索水缘政治中的友谊：阿西/奥龙特斯河友谊大坝案例

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2023-05-11 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2058

Hannah Haemmerli, Christian Bréthaut, Fatine Ezbakhe

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Extended producer responsibility: An empirical investigation into municipalities' contributions to and perspectives on e-waste management 生产者延伸责任：关于市政当局对电子废物管理的贡献和观点的实证调查

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2023-05-09 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2059

Stéphanie H. Leclerc, Madhav G. Badami

{"title":"Extended producer responsibility: An empirical investigation into municipalities' contributions to and perspectives on e-waste management","authors":"Stéphanie H. Leclerc, Madhav G. Badami","doi":"10.1002/eet.2059","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2059","url":null,"abstract":"The development and implementation of extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies to manage e-waste provide multilevel governance frameworks for achieving greater material circularity. However, the roles and responsibilities that are allocated to various stakeholders under these policies, which are crucial for program effectiveness, often vary across jurisdictions, and consensus is lacking about the best types of relationships and collaboration that should govern municipalities' contributions to EPR programs. Against this backdrop, and since this issue is poorly researched, we conducted an empirical investigation to identify the main drivers and barriers influencing municipalities' collaboration with an e-waste EPR program in a Canadian province where municipalities are free to decide whether or not to engage with the program. Based on our study, we explore policy implications for similar programs in other jurisdictions, and propose questions for further research. Our findings identify key motivations for collaboration, including perceived program legitimacy, program funding, and logistical efficiencies. Conversely, a lack of program transparency, failure to support local employment, a focus on recycling instead of reuse, and limited program scope are identified as disincentives to program participation. Policymaking for e-waste management and circularity need to consider municipalities' interests and contributions to ensure successful implementation.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 2","pages":"111-124"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2059","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76342521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Barriers and enablers of environmental policy coherence: A systematic review 环境政策一致性的障碍和促进因素：系统审查

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2057

Alain Fopa Tchinda, David Talbot

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How resilience is framed matters for governance of coastal social-ecological systems 如何确定复原力对于沿海社会生态系统的治理至关重要

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2023-04-29 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2056

Sarah Clement, Javad Jozaei, Michael Mitchell, Craig R. Allen, Ahjond S. Garmestani

{"title":"How resilience is framed matters for governance of coastal social-ecological systems","authors":"Sarah Clement, Javad Jozaei, Michael Mitchell, Craig R. Allen, Ahjond S. Garmestani","doi":"10.1002/eet.2056","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2056","url":null,"abstract":"Effective governance of social-ecological systems (SES) is an enduring challenge, especially in coastal environments where accelerating impacts of climate change are increasing pressure on already stressed systems. While resilience is often proposed as a suitable framing to re-orient governance and management, the literature includes many different, and sometimes conflicting, definitions and ideas that influence how the concept is applied, especially in coastal environments. This study combines discourse analysis of the coastal governance literature and key informant interviews in Tasmania, Australia, demonstrating inconsistencies and confusion in the way that resilience is framed in coastal governance research and practice. We find that resilience is most often framed as (1) a rate of recovery from disturbance or (2) the process of acting in response to, or anticipation of, a disturbance. A third framing considers resilience as an emergent property of SESs. This framing, social-ecological resilience, accounts for multiple configurations of SES, which necessitates adaptation and transformation strategies to address changes across temporal and spatial scales. Coastal managers recognised the value of this third framing for governing coastal SESs, yet the confusion and inconsistency in the literature was also evident in how they understood and applied resilience in practice. Expanding the use of social-ecological resilience is essential for more effective coastal governance, given the dynamics of coastal SESs and the intensity of social, economic, and environmental drivers of change these systems face. However, this requires addressing the unclear, confused, and superficial use of resilience-oriented concepts in research and policy discourse.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 1","pages":"65-76"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86975450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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