Sustainability policy paradox: coping with changing environmental priorities in municipal waste management

Pollans, Lily Baum

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2019.1673157

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“…The concept of paradox has been used widely in policy analysis (e.g. Kunseler & Tuinstra, 2017;Pollans, 2019;Smith, 2015;Wesselink et al, 2013). Stone (2002) argued that rational policy analysis with the goal to improve governance has been based on a profound disgust for ambiguities and paradoxes of politics where everything is considered to have a single meaning.…”

Section: Policy Paradoxes and Objective To Leave No One Behindmentioning

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“…Stone (2002) argued that rational policy analysis with the goal to improve governance has been based on a profound disgust for ambiguities and paradoxes of politics where everything is considered to have a single meaning. This way, a policy paradox is not congruent with the problem it is meant to solve but rather reveals the "hidden" agendas and interests of policy makers or their constituents themselves (Pollans, 2019;Stone, 2002). Therefore, the identification of paradoxes associated with policies can play an important role in improving governance and policy processes put in place to better tackle the socio-environmental problems.…”

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Embracing policy paradoxes: EU’s Just Transition Fund and the aim “to leave no one behind”

Sarkki

Ludvig

Nijnik

et al. 2022

Int Environ Agreements

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With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, UN Member States pledge “to leave no one behind” and “endeavour to reach the furthest behind first”. The EU Just Transition Fund (JTF) was designed to meet these policy objectives. It is one of three pillars of the Just Transition Mechanism, aiming at fair delivery of the European Green Deal and reducing adverse social and economic impacts of the transition towards a climate-neutral Europe. We examine the formulation of the JTF Regulation, from January 2020 until July 2021 and analyse seven topics of importance during the JTF formulation. Based on the results, we identify and discuss four paradoxes related to governance scales, offsetting exclusion, equity illusion, and eligibility criteria. The paradoxes arise from tension between the all-inclusive objective to leave no one behind, and selective affirmative actions, seeking to reach the furthest behind first. Results of the analysis enabled us to put forward plausible strategies to embrace these policy paradoxes to offer important lessons learned for the JTF and also to future policies that seek to leave no one behind.

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Section: Policy Paradoxes and Objective To Leave No One Behindmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embracing policy paradoxes: EU’s Just Transition Fund and the aim “to leave no one behind”

Sarkki

Ludvig

Nijnik

et al. 2022

Int Environ Agreements

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“…through incentives and concessions) (Massarutto, 2007). Waste valorization mutates the industrial composition of the waste sector: it pushes the marketization of waste (sub)streams and increases the legal responsibilities of waste producers and consumers, including urban households, in the recovery process (Pollans, 2019; Savini and Giezen, 2020).…”

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“…Valorization centres waste—conventionally an environmental concern—within economic development programmes. In doing so, it resolves the state's paradoxical position as both protector of the environment and enabler of economic development (Pollans, 2019). As Gille (2010) argues, the shifting definitions of waste in policy arenas are both the product of, and essential drivers for, the creation of new state‐driven waste‐governing practices.…”

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THE STATE OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: Waste Valorization in Hong Kong and Rotterdam

Wildeboer¹,

Savini²

2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The concept of the circular economy has gained significant political momentum because it offers policymakers a viable approach to tackling resource depletion, reducing waste and promoting economic development all at the same time. Current research, however, only focuses on the technological feasibility of this model, overlooking circularity's inherent contradiction: namely, that it valorizes waste rather than reducing it. This article tackles this limit by questioning the role of the state in what we describe as 'waste valorization'. It interrogates the urban political ecology of construction and demolition waste, the largest stream of inert materials in the world. It analyses CDW's geographies and economic position in urban development and the shifting rationales by which it is governed. To do this, it compares historical shifts in how CDW has been regulated in Hong Kong and Rotterdam. The article shows that waste is no longer an abject residual of urbanization, but a driver of urban development and a burgeoning sphere of accumulation in ecological capitalism.

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A signaling game approach of siting conflict mediation for the construction of waste incineration facilities under information asymmetry

Jin

Wang

Qian

et al. 2022

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Sustainability policy paradox: coping with changing environmental priorities in municipal waste management

Cited by 3 publications

References 39 publications

Embracing policy paradoxes: EU’s Just Transition Fund and the aim “to leave no one behind”

Embracing policy paradoxes: EU’s Just Transition Fund and the aim “to leave no one behind”

THE STATE OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: Waste Valorization in Hong Kong and Rotterdam

A signaling game approach of siting conflict mediation for the construction of waste incineration facilities under information asymmetry

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