Doctoral Dissertation Research - Making Markets for Environmental Governance - the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme

博士论文研究 - 为环境治理创造市场 - 新西兰排放交易计划

• 批准号: 0848444
• 负责人: Matthew Turner
• 金额: $ 1.23万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0848444&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Making; Markets

This dissertation project funded by the Science, Technology & Society Program examines the development of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ-ETS) as a case of market-based environmental governance in order to understand the role of techno-scientific knowledges in environmental policymaking. The New Zealand government recently announced the establishment of an emissions trading scheme that constitutes an ambitious attempt to use markets as instruments of climate change policy. The creation of this regulatory framework for greenhouse gases is the first national-scale attempt to create economy-wide regulation of greenhouse gases. The process of regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) within the NZ-ETS centers on the creation of a market structure for a previously un-recognized and un-valued commodity (i.e., a permit for the carbon dioxide equivalent for each GHG). As such, the implementation of the market-based regulation of GHGs simultaneously depends upon knowledges from both the meteorological and economic sciences. This project explains how these scientific and technical knowledges direct the form and function of environmental policies.The intellectual merit of the proposed research rests on the integration of approaches from science studies and political economy to better understand the role of techno-scientific knowledges in environmental governance. The creation of an economy-wide regulatory scheme for greenhouse gases and the distinctive material properties of agricultural greenhouse gases as an object of regulation pose interesting challenges to existing accounts of how new institutions of environmental governance develop and an important opportunity to explore the construction, imaginaries, and effects of new market-based instruments for environmental governance. The project uses interviews with scientists involved in the measurement of greenhouse gases, government policy analysts, and economic advisors and consultants in conjunction with analyses of policy and industry consultation documents and scientific papers and reports in order to understand how this policy program mobilizes particular scientific and economic knowledges in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The broader impact lies in the capacity to inform the development of future climate change policies both within New Zealand and in other countries as they inevitably move to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. As the New Zealand case offers one of the first attempts to include agriculture and land use in a national regime of GHG regulation, this project provides insight into the challenges and contingencies of creating market-based regulations for greenhouse gases. In an effort to engage participating interview subjects in a reflexive manner, a collaborative conference is held for participating policy analysts in public service departments.

该论文项目由科学，技术与社会计划资助，研究了新西兰排放贸易计划（NZ-ETS）的发展，以此作为基于市场的环境治理的案例，以了解技术科学知识在环境政策制定中的作用。新西兰政府最近宣布建立一项排放贸易计划，该计划构成了将市场用作气候变化政策工具的雄心勃勃的尝试。建立这个为温室气体的监管框架创建的是国家规模的首次尝试制定对温室气体的经济规范。 NZ-ETS内调节温室气体（GHG）的过程集中于以前未经认可和未估值的商品的市场结构（即，每种GHG的二氧化碳二氧化碳的许可证）。因此，同时基于市场的温室气体法规的实施取决于气象和经济科学的知识。该项目解释了这些科学和技术知识如何指导环境政策的形式和功能。拟议研究的智力优点取决于科学研究和政治经济学的方法的整合，以更好地了解技术科学知识在环境治理中的作用。建立了用于温室气体的经济范围的监管计划以及农业温室气体作为监管对象的独特材料特性，对现有的环境治理新机构如何发展以及探索建筑的重要机会，构成了有趣的挑战，想象，新的基于市场的工具对环境治理的影响。该项目使用参与衡量温室气体，政府政策分析师以及经济顾问和顾问的科学家以及政策和行业咨询文件和科学论文和报告的分析，以了解该政策计划如何动员特定的科学和特定科学和报告，以进行访谈。经济知识以减少温室气体排放。更广泛的影响力在于，在不可避免地会减少农业中的温室气体排放量的情况下，将未来的气候变化政策发展为发展的能力。由于新西兰案提供了包括农业和土地利用在国家温室气体法规中的首次尝试，因此该项目提供了对制定基于市场的温室气体法规的挑战和意外情况的见解。为了以反思性的方式参与参与的面试主题，为公共服务部门的参与政策分析师举行了协作会议。