On the Political Economy of Environmental Policy

Kirchgäßner, Gebhard; Schneider, Friedrich

doi:10.2139/ssrn.298152

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“…The concept of 'ecological modernization' (Mol and Ja¨nicke, 2009; is used to emphasize the transformation in the environmental institution in the direction of rational management (Huber, 2000(Huber, , 2004. In this context, rational management refers to a social intent to harmonize environmental protection and economic growth (Karp and Rezai, 2014;Kirchga¨ssner and Schneider, 2001). Nevertheless, in a more comprehensive perspective, ecological modernization, as a specific form of society-nature relationship, requires the implementation of: (i) a particular representation and definition of nature and its components, (ii) a specific understanding of environmental ecosystems that can relate to the policy instruments available, (iii) a novel dispositive to measure environmental impacts and compensation of damages and (iv) new mechanisms to allow and/or constrain different forms of action over ecosystems.…”

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Ecological modernization from the actor’s perspective: Spatio-temporality in the narratives about socio-ecological conflicts in Chile

Medina

2018

Time & Society

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Studies on ecological modernization have produced a fruitful discussion concerning the connection between society and nature based on the evolution of socio-political institutions. However, the question from the individual’s perspective and their evaluation of the environmental institutions’ modernization remains unsystematically explored. This paper introduces the actor’s narratives on what I called time and space restructuration to define a sensitive method to explore the socio-ecological controversies produced by the enactment of a new environmental institution at the national level. The paper reconstructs the social discourse in relation to the exponential growth of Chilean extractive industries, which run in parallel with the government’s intent to ensure high levels of sustainability through institutional changes that occurred between 1990 and 2015. The main argument proposes that rendering the ecological modernization as a final stage of institutional improvement obscures a controversial reorganization of actions and roles at the environmental level. From this perspective, the clash between different organizations of time and space at the environmental level, among different social actors, offers a valid perspective on the re-emergence of socio-ecological conflicts.

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Ecological modernization from the actor’s perspective: Spatio-temporality in the narratives about socio-ecological conflicts in Chile

Medina

2018

Time & Society

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“…Further, the implementation of environmental legislation by regulatory agencies may be affected by bureaucrats' self-interest considerations (Kirchgässner and Schneider, 2003).…”

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Cross-Sectoral Externalities Related to Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services

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“…Furthermore, in particular a transition to a RE-based electricity sector needs sufficient stakeholder support, and therefore offers many opportunities for stakeholder groups to shape regulation policies in their interests.Hence, RE policy has to take into account the potential redistribution of resources among interest groups(Gawel et al, 2017;del Río and Labandeira, 2009). Apart from "rent management" within RE policy(Schmitz et al, 2013), also policy choices as well as the choice of regulatory instruments can be ascribed to rent-seeking behavior of different interest groups(Kirchgässner and Schneider, 2003).…”

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