拆解政策一致性:欧盟循环经济政策组合的网络分析

IF 9.6 1区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Vasileios Rizos , Valeria Zambianchi
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政策一致性是跨部门可持续性转型所追求的特征。尽管对政策组合进行了大量研究,迫切需要提高生产和消费周期中的环境可持续性,但只有有限数量的研究从经验上考察了循环经济政策组合实践中的政策一致性。为了解决这一差距,我们的论文将欧盟的循环经济政策组合分解为一个相互关联的政策体系,其政策一致性由循环经济领域的参与者体验,特别是在电子和信息通信技术、电池、汽车和关键原材料领域。循环经济是研究政策一致性的一个重要领域,因为它受到政策采纳的显著增加的影响,而在欧盟层面,循环经济实践的主流化仍然不足。结合自上而下和自下而上的方法来填充政策组合,我们通过对36个业务参与者的调查经验,使用网络分析来评估组合中政策之间的协同作用和冲突。我们发现,平均而言,欧盟的循环经济政策组合表现出中等到高度的平均一致性。然而,与此同时,我们的结果表明,政策之间的一致性在混合中并不统一,因为其政策之间存在不同程度的一致性。仔细观察政策间的一致性,就会发现几个中低一致性的例子。此外,我们的研究结果表明,欧盟的循环经济政策组合缺乏政策集群,这降低了政策组合对外部冲击的抵御能力。我们的结论是,应该更加重视协调欧盟循环经济、工业和气候政策的目标,并为欧盟企业提供一套连贯的要求。
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Unpacking policy coherence: A network analysis of the EU policy mix for the circular economy
Policy coherence is a sought-after characteristic in cross-sectoral sustainability transformations. Despite the wealth of research on policy mixes and the urgent need to advance environmental sustainability in production and consumption cycles, only a limited number of studies empirically examine policy coherence in practice within policy mixes for the circular economy. To address this gap, our paper unpacks the EU's circular economy policy mix as a system of linked policies whose policy coherence is experienced by actors in the circular economy space, specifically in the electronics and ICT, batteries, automotive and critical raw materials sectors. The circular economy is an important area for studying policy coherence because it has been subject to a significant increase in policy adoption, all while the mainstreaming of circular economy practices remains insufficient at the EU level. Combining a top-down and bottom-up approach to populate the policy mix, we use network analysis to assess the synergies and conflicts among the policies in the mix through the surveyed experiences of 36 business actors. We find that on average the EU's circular economy policy mix exhibits a medium-to-high average degree of coherence. At the same time, however, our results show that the coherence between policies is not uniform within the mix as there is a diverse degree of coherence among its policies. Looking closely into inter-policy coherence reveals several cases of medium-to-low coherence. Moreover, our results indicate that the EU's policy mix for the circular economy lacks clusters of policies, which reduces the resilience of the policy mix to external shocks. We conclude that more emphasis should be given to aligning the objectives of EU circular economy, industrial and climate policies, and to providing a coherent set of requirements for EU businesses.
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Sustainable Production and Consumption
Sustainable Production and Consumption Environmental Science-Environmental Engineering
CiteScore
17.40
自引率
7.40%
发文量
389
审稿时长
13 days
期刊介绍: Sustainable production and consumption refers to the production and utilization of goods and services in a way that benefits society, is economically viable, and has minimal environmental impact throughout its entire lifespan. Our journal is dedicated to publishing top-notch interdisciplinary research and practical studies in this emerging field. We take a distinctive approach by examining the interplay between technology, consumption patterns, and policy to identify sustainable solutions for both production and consumption systems.
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