Regulating sustainable development

Drummond, Ian M.; Marsden, TK

doi:10.1016/0959-3780(94)00005-u

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“…It is here, we claim, that engagements with materiality elsewhere in human geography (and cognate disciplines) can be particularly helpful for working through a number of analytical challenges associated with work on geographies of resources. These include the functioning of the 'econonatural networks' through which nature is transformed into resources, commodities and conditions of production (Castree, 2003); the mutual production, transformation and regulation of biophysical and socio-economic processes (Swyngedouw, 1999); and the productive and generative capacities of the non-human (see, for example, Smith, 1984;Castree, 1995;; Drummond and Marsden, 1995;Gibbs, 1996;Gandy, 1997;Bakker, 2000;Bridge, 2000;Gibbs et a., 2002;Jonas and Bridge, 2003). To support this claim we examine three areas of geographical writing: on commodities, corporeality and hybridity.…”

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Material worlds? Resource geographies and the `matter of nature'

Bakker

Bridge

2006

Progress in Human Geography

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Concepts of 'materiality are increasingly invoked in human geography. This paper discusses several recent and influential workings of materiality, and examines their implications for resource geographies. First, we identify a set of analytical questions at the heart of resource geography and characterize the dominant approaches to these questions -the 'production of nature and the 'social construction of nature'-as yielding diminishing returns. Second, we survey recent work on materiality relating to commodities, corporeality and hybridity and advance the claim that this work provides a number of fresh perspectives with which to revive resource geography. Third, we highlight three specific themes within this research: a radical redistribution and decentering of agency; a revitalization of the concept of 'construction'; and an acknowledgement of the political-economic implications that flow from a world that is biophysically heterogeneous. Finally, we draw on this analysis to explore how progress might be made in the conceptualization and empirical study of resources.

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Material worlds? Resource geographies and the `matter of nature'

Bakker

Bridge

2006

Progress in Human Geography

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“…In the majority of regulationist work, the discursive and ecological dimensions of socioeconomic restructuring remain unexplored (Gandy 1997). Recent work on sustainable development and regulation (Gibbs 1996;Cocklin and Blunden 1998;Drummond and Marsden 1995) and on the links between macroeconomic change, environmental regulation, and urban service provi-8 ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY sion (Gandy 1997;Swyngedouw 1997) have proposed innovative analytical perspectives. Yet a central difficulty with regulationist method remains that, as a theory based on intermediate-level concepts, it breaks down when confronted with what Murray (1993) terms the "logic of immediacy.…”

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“…In this paper I unravel the relationships between these different dimensions of an environmental "crisis" through an analysis of drought as the production of water scarcity in nature. This conceptualization of the production of scarcity draws on research on the relationship between ideology and water management (Emel 1990;Emel and Brooks 1988;Emel and Roberts 1995;Emel, Roberts, and Sauri 1992), the production of nature (Castree 1995(Castree , 1997Smith 1984Smith , 1996, discourses of the environment (Castree and Braun 1998;Darier 1999;Downing and Bakker 2000;Hajer 1995;Litfin 1994;West and Smith 1996;Zimmerer 1993), and environmental regulation (Drummond and Marsden 1995;Gandy 1997;Gibbs 1996). The first section of the paper begins to build these theoretical links through a retheorization of environmental regulation.…”

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Privatizing Water, Producing Scarcity: The Yorkshire Drought of 1995 *

Bakker¹

2017

Environment

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The Yorkshire drought of 1995 was the most extreme climate event faced by the English and Welsh water industry since its privatization in 1989. As an emblem of crisis in privatized water management, and as a potential signal of climate change, the 1995 drought has motivated change in water regulation and management. In this paper I challenge conventional interpretations of the 1995 water supply crisis as a natural hazard or as a result of managerial ineptitude. Drought is conceptualized as the production of scarcity, an outcome of three interrelated practices: meteorological modeling, demand forecasting, and corporate restructuring and the regulatory "game." These practices are situated within an analysis of the context of the regulatory implications of the privatization of the water industry in 1989. I explore the simultaneously natural, social, and discursive elements of water scarcity and situate them within an analysis of privatization as reregulation, rather than deregulation. This analysis brings insights developed in debates over "real" regulation and regulation theory to bear on nature-society analysis, while extending this debate through theorizing regulation as, in part, a discursive practice. The ensuing rereading of drought challenges conventional interpretations of environmental crisis, raises questions about the implications of water industry privatization, and emphasizes the need to account for the role of the state and the intricacies of "real" regulation in analyses of resource management.

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“…Indeed, it is in this respect that some economic geographers have attempted to link explanatory insights from a regulationist perspective to environmental analysis (see Gibbs 1996Gibbs , 2002Gandy 1997;Bakker 2000;Bridge 2000;Bridge and McManus 2000;Krueger 2002;McManus 2002). The regulation approach tends to conceptualize the environment as external to accumulation and as a condition for social regulation (Drummond and Marsden 1995). Viewed in this way, the environment is an extraeconomic object of social regulation and a site of struggle between actors and groups at various scales.…”

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“…O'Connor extended the analysis from a focus on forces and relations of production to include the conditions of production, arguing that the former tend to degrade the ecological conditions they depend upon-the second contradiction of capitalism. From this perspective, a tendency toward ecological crisis may therefore be just as endemic to capitalism as a falling rate of profit or overaccumulation (Drummond and Marsden 1995). For example, Smith (1984, 59) noted that in its uncontrolled drive for universality, capitalism creates new barriers to its own future.…”

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Prospects for an Environmental Economic Geography: Linking Ecological Modernization and Regulationist Approaches

Gibbs¹

2006

Economic Geography

110

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Although the “new” economic geography has explored links between the subdiscipline's traditional areas of study and cultural, institutional, and political realms, environmental issues remain comparatively underresearched within the subdiscipline. This article contends not only that the environment is of key importance to economic geography, but also that economic geographers can make an important contribution to environmental debates, through providing not just a better analysis and theoretical understanding, but also better policy proscription. Rather than claim new intellectual territory, the intention is to suggest potential creative opportunities for linking economic geography's strengths with those insights from other theoretical perspectives. In particular, this article focuses upon linking insights from ecological modernization theory, developed by environmental sociologists, with regulationist approaches.

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Regulating sustainable development

Cited by 33 publications

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Material worlds? Resource geographies and the `matter of nature'

Material worlds? Resource geographies and the `matter of nature'

Privatizing Water, Producing Scarcity: The Yorkshire Drought of 1995 *

Prospects for an Environmental Economic Geography: Linking Ecological Modernization and Regulationist Approaches

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