Climate, energy and environmental policy: from formulation to implementation
The sustained global economic growth achieved over the past half century has transformed the lives of billions of people, yet this has not come without costs. Increased economic activity has led to greater energy demands and reliance on non-renewable resources and widespread environmental degradation including climate change, deforestation, and high levels of air and water pollution. The challenge therefore facing governments and policymakers is to maximise the opportunities derived from increased economic activity and growth, while minimising adverse environmental impacts.
This Collection invites research (empirical, methodological and theoretical) concerned with all aspects of the formulation, adoption, and implementation of climate, energy, and environmental policies.
Articles are invited from a variety of geographic and disciplinary perspectives, including science and technology studies, science policy studies, public policy, political science, sociology, and philosophy. Research that advances specific policy proposals must be supported by rigorous analysis and balanced appraisal.
Contributions are invited on key themes, including but not limited to:
- All aspects of the policymaking process from problem identification, agenda setting, assessment of policy options, implementation, and evaluation;
- Processes, instruments and bodies to facilitate climate (change and adaptation), energy and environmental policymaking;
- Policymaking and regulation at all scales (local, national, regional and global) and contexts (e.g. city-, country- and region-specific);
- Production and use of evidence and expertise in developing policy;
- Considerations of the networks of power, influence and evidence-use contributing to policy formulation;
- Relationship between scientific evidence and other knowledge types (e.g., sectoral, local and indigenous);
- Policy decision-making processes in differing contexts (government, civil society, and corporate settings);
- Negotiation and design of regional and international agreements;
- Role of incentives and trade-offs in policy making, and the ramifications of non-compliance;
- Mechanisms for enabling public/non-expert participation in policymaking;
- Interplay of policymaking with economic, social, planning and political considerations;
- Perspectives on justice, equity and inclusion arising from policy adoption;
- Inter- and transdisciplinary initiatives (e.g., co-production and humanities-based research);
- Impacts of trade and investment on policy action.
Research focused on green electoral politics and activism should be directed to our sister collection Going green? Environmental politics and activism.
Editors
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Stathis Arapostathis
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
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Fateh Belaïd
King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, Saudi Arabia
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Charlotte Unger
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS), Germany
