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Environmental political economy, technological transitions and the state

2005; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 10; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/13563460500344419

1469-9923

James Meadowcroft,

Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD Environmental Strategy for the First Decade of the 21st Century (OECD, 2001). 2. European Environment Agency, Environment in the European Union at the Turn of the Century (European Environment Agency, 1999). 3. Carolyn Deere & Daniel Esty (eds), Greening the Americas (MIT Press, 2002); Eric Neumayer, Greening Trade and Investment: Environmental Protection without Protectionism (Earthscan, 2001); and Richard Steinberg, The Greening of Trade Law: International Trade Organisations and Environmental Issues (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). 4. See, for example: Michael Rock, 'Pollution Intensity of GDP and Trade Policy: Can the World Bank Be Wrong?', World Development, Vol. 24, No. 3 (1996), pp. 471–9; Brian Hocking & Steven McGuire (eds), Trade Politics: International, Domestic, and Regional Perspectives (Routledge, 1999); Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Trade Rules and Sustainability in the Americas (International Institute for Sustainable Development, 1999); and Shahrukh Khan (ed.), Trade and Environment: North and South Perspectives and Southern Responses (Zed, 2002). 5. For example, Jonathan Golub, New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU (Routledge, 1998); Arthur Mol, Volkmar Lauber & Duncan Liefferink, The Voluntary Approach to Environmental Policy: Joint Environmental Policy-making in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2000); and Thomas Sterner, Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management (Resources for the Future, 2001). 6. Marc De Clercq, Negotiating Environmental Agreements in Europe: Critical Factors for Success (Edward Elgar, 2002); Winston Harrington, Richard D. Morgenstern & Thomas Sterner, Choosing Environmental Policy: Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the United States and Europe (Resources for the Future, 2004); and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Voluntary Approaches for Environmental Policy: Effectiveness, Efficiency and Usage in Policy Mixes (OECD, 2003). 7. Consider: Braden Allenby, Industrial Ecology: Policy Framework and Implementation (Prentice Hall, 1999); Robert Ayres & Udo Simonis (eds), Industrial Metabolism: Restructuring for Sustainable Development (United Nations University Press, 1995); and Audun Ruud, 'Partners for progress? The role of business in transcending business as usual', in: William Lafferty (ed.), Governance for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Adapting Form to Function (Edward Elgar, 2004), pp. 221–45. 8. Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen & Aynsley Kellow, International Environmental Policy: Interests and the Failure of the Kyoto Process (Edward Elgar, 2002). 9. For just a few examples from this immense and growing literature, consider Michael Grubb, Christiaan Vrolijk & Duncan Brack (eds), The Kyoto Protocol: A Guide and Assessment (Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1999); Urs Luterbacher & Detlef Sprinz (eds), International Relations and Global Climate Change (MIT Press, 2001); and Barry Rabe, Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy (Brookings Institution, 2004). 10. See, for example: Tim Jackson & Laurie Michaelis, 'Policies for Sustainable Consumption', a Report to the Sustainable Development Commission, 2003; and 'Changing Patterns: UK Government Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production' (UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, n.d. [2003]). 11. Michael Redclift, Wasted: Counting the Costs of Global Consumption (Earthscan, 1996); Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates & Ken Conca, Confronting Consumption (MIT Press, 2002); and Jacquelin Burgess, Tracey Bedford, Kersty Hobson, Gail Davies & Carolyn Harrison, '(Un)sustainable consumption', in: Frans Berkhout, Melissa Leach & Ian Scoones, Negotiating Environmental Change (Edward Elgar, 2003), pp. 261–91. 12. Arthur Mol & Gert Spaargaren, 'Environment, Modernity and Risk Society: The Apocalyptic Horizon of Environmental Reform', International Sociology, Vol. 8, No. 4 (1993), pp. 432–59; and Gert Spaargaren, The Ecological Modernization of Production and Consumption (Wageningen University, 1997). 13. Albert Weale, The New Politics Of Pollution (Manchester University Press, 1992). 14. Maarten Hajer, The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process (Clarendon Press, 1995). 15. Peter Christoff, 'Ecological Modernization, Ecological Modernities', Environmental Politics, Vol. 5, No. 3 (1996), pp. 476–500. 16. Arthur Mol & David Sonnenfeld, Ecological Modernization Around the World: Perspectives and Critical Debates (Frank Cass, 2000). 17. Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990). 18. Nives Dolsak & Elinor Ostrom (eds), The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptation (MIT Press, 2003). 19. Oran Young, The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes: Causal Connections and Behavioural Mechanisms (MIT Press, 1999); and Edward Miles, Arild Underdal, Steinar Andresen, Jorgen Wettestad, Jon Birger Skjaerseth & Elaiane Carlin, Environmental Regime Effectiveness: Confronting Theory with Evidence (MIT Press, 2002). 20. Where There's a Will There's a World, The Netherlands Fourth National Environmental Policy Plan (Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, 2002), p. 63. 21. Ibid., p. 72. 22. Jan Rotmans, Rene´ Kemp & Marjolein van Asselt, 'More Evolution than Revolution: Transition Management in Public Policy', Foresight, Vol. 3 (2001), pp. 15–31; and Frank Geels, Understanding the Dynamics of Technological Transitions: A Co-evolutionary and Socio-technical Analysis (Twente University Press, 2002). 23. Rene Kemp & Jan Rotmans, 'Managing the transition to sustainable mobility', in: Boelie Elzen, Frank Geels & Ken Green (eds), System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability: Theory, Evidence and Policy (Edward Elgar, 2003), pp. 137–67. 24. Ibid. 25. Ibid. 26. Rene´ Kemp & Derk Loorbach, 'Dutch policies to manage the transition to sustainable energy', in: Jahrbuch Ökologische Ökonomik 4 Innova-tionen und Nachhaltigkeit (Metropolis Verlag, 2005), pp. 123–50. 27. Ibid. 28. Frans Berkhout, Adrian Smith & Andy Stirling, 'Socio-technological regimes and transition contexts', Science Policy Research Unit Electronic Working Paper Series 106, University of Sussex, 2003, p. 3, available at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/spru/publications/imprint/sewps/sewp106/sewp106.pdf. Emphasis in the original. 29. Ibid., p. 18. 30. Ibid., p. 14. 31. Ibid. 32. Where There's a Will There's a World. 33. J. Bruggink, The Next 50 Years: Four European Energy Futures (Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands, 2005). 34. For a discussion, see Neil Carter, The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2001); and Andrew Dobson, Green Political Thought, third edition (Routledge, 2000). 35. For a discussion, see John Dryzek & David Schlosberg, Debating the Earth, second edition (Oxford University Press, 2005). 36. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Third Assessment Report (IPCC, 2001). 37. For example, Rod Rhodes, 'The Hollowing out of the State', Political Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 1 (1994), pp. 138–51. 38. For example, see Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State (Cambridge University Press, 1996). 39. Consider Robert Paehlke & Douglas Torgerson, Managing Leviathan: Environmental Politics and the Administrative State, second edition (Broadview Press, 2005). 40. See Mathew Paterson, Understanding Global Environmental Politics: Domination, Accumulation, Resistance (Palgrave, 2000). 41. For a discussion, see John Barry, Rethinking Green Politics: Nature, Virtue and Progress (Sage, 1999). 42. Consider Linda Weiss, The Myth of the Powerless State (Cambridge University Press, 1998). 43. Jon Pierre (ed.), Debating Governance: Authority, Steering and Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2000). 44. Consider James Meadowcroft, 'Planning for Sustainable Development: Insights from the Literatures of Political Science', European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 31, No. 4 (1997), pp. 427–54. 45. Jan Kooiman, Governing as Governance (Sage, 2003). 46. Peter Driessen & Pieter Glasbergen, Greening Society: The Paradigm Shift in Dutch Environmental Politics (Kluwer, 2002). 47. Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld & Deanna Newsom, Governing through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-State Authority (Yale University Press, 2004). 48. For recent discussion of the state's relationship with environmental problems, see: Robyn Eckersley, The Green State: Rethinking Democracy, and Sovereignty (MIT Press, 2004); John Barry & Robyn Eckersley (eds), The State and the Global Ecological Crisis (MIT Press, 2005); and John Dryzek, David Downes, Christian Hunhold & David Schlosberg, with Hans-Kristian Hernes, Green States and Social Movements (Oxford University Press, 2003). 49. For an argument about the state's potential to manage environmental problems that draws parallels with contemporary welfare states, see James Meadowcroft, 'From welfare state to ecostate?', in: Barry & Eckersley, The State and the Global Ecological Crisis, pp. 5–23. 50. OECD, OECD Environmental Strategy for the First Decade of the 21st Century. 51. World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (Oxford University Press, 1987). 52. Ernst von Weizsacker, Amory Lovins & Hunter Lovins, Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use (Earthscan, 1997). 53. Kenneth Geiser, Materials Matter: Toward a Sustainable Materials Policy (MIT Press, 2001).