Living in the Plastic Age

doi:10.12907/978-3-593-44902-9

2023

DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-44902-9

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Living in the Plastic Age

Abstract: Plastikmüll ist überall auf unserem Planeten zu finden. Er hinterlässt einen augenscheinlichen Fußabdruck des menschlichen Konsumverhaltens und der Massenproduktion. Unser ungebremster Plastikkonsum und dessen Auswirkungen prägen die gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnisse in einer so tiefgreifenden Weise, dass wir vom Plastikzeitalter sprechen. Um Ansätze für einen Umgang mit diesem Problem zu entwickeln, müssen wir das Phänomen umfassend verstehen: Die Autor:innen beleuchten es aus interdisziplinärer Perspektiv… Show more

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A policy portfolio approach to plastics throughout their life cycle: Supranational and national regulation in the European Union

Eckert,

Karassin,

Steinebach

2024

Env Pol Gov

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The environmental and health problems caused by plastics throughout their life cycle have attracted considerable public attention over the past decade, triggering policy responses in many constituencies. Similarly, interdisciplinary research on plastics has been burgeoning in the past few years, and political science contributions have covered the manifold root causes and consequences of this shift in public policy including media coverage, evolving discourses and policy agendas. In view of this policy relevance that drives scholarly inquiry, it is surprising that we lack a systematic assessment of the actual policy outputs. This article fills this lacuna by developing a policy portfolio approach to plastic regulation. To illustrate and substantiate our approach, we provide an exploratory analysis of EU plastics regulation over the last twenty years, complementing this with Denmark, Germany, and Poland as diverse cases of member state regulation. Overall, our research shows that the number of policy measures targeting plastics has massively increased both at the supranational and national level. This policy growth, however, varies across policy targets and instruments. Our findings highlight first, that the policy targets addressed are mainly located at the end of the plastics life cycle; and second, that the instrument choice is privileging the use of hierarchical forms of intervention over the use of market‐ or information‐based instruments. We discuss these features of the policy portfolio approach in light of existing research on plastics and life‐cycle‐oriented policy approaches such as the Circular Economy.

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A policy portfolio approach to plastics throughout their life cycle: Supranational and national regulation in the European Union

Eckert,

Karassin,

Steinebach

2024

Env Pol Gov

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Living in the Plastic Age

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A policy portfolio approach to plastics throughout their life cycle: Supranational and national regulation in the European Union

A policy portfolio approach to plastics throughout their life cycle: Supranational and national regulation in the European Union

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