Constructing the green economy: integrating sustainability for governance?

建设绿色经济：将可持续性融入治理？

• 批准号: ES/J021504/1
• 负责人: David Benson
• 金额: $ 1.87万
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ021504%2F1
• 关键词: Constructing; green; economy; integrating; sustainability

According to UNEP (2011: 14) 'disillusionment with our prevailing economic paradigm' has led to the green economy entering public policy discourses at multiple governance levels, a concept that necessitates 'an alternative paradigm in which increased wealth does not lead to growing environmental risks, ecological scarcities and social disparities'. Much of this disillusionment results from threats posed by climate change, biodiversity loss and unsustainable consumption which are set to intensify in future, providing challenges to existing socio-economic systems. Greening economies to more fully integrate environmental concerns will therefore involve major transformations in current governance structures to reorient markets, shift consumption patterns and redistribute resources to enhance environmental protection and social well-being, a factor recognised in recent global initiatives such as the United Nations' global Green New Deal and Green Economy programmes (UNEP 2009, 2011). Within the European Union, facilitating green/low carbon economic growth is now a strategic priority in the 2010 Lisbon Strategy (Lisbon 2020) for jobs and competitiveness (CEC 2010). In addition, the green economy is a strategic theme in the upcoming UN Rio+20 Conference on sustainable development in 2012, ensuring it remains at the forefront of future governance priorities. However, the green economy remains a somewhat nebulous and potentially contested concept, in need of further empirical and theoretical explication in order to provide normative policy strategies. For some environmentalists the green economy remains controversial since it appears to downgrade long term sustainability issues in favour of economic concerns, while endorsing a techno-centric development view (Jackson 2009). This is a critical issue we seek to examine in the research seminar series.In this respect, the seminar series aims to build on the existing investigations of the applicants into green budgeting (e.g. Russel and Benson 2011; O'Riordan 2011) and others, to generate further empirical, theoretical and normative research into how the green economy concept is being framed and integrated in EU states. The seminar series also seeks to stimulate debate and provide tentative policy relevant recommendations on potential governance solutions. Several auditable objectives are central to this aim. Firstly, the seminar programme will establish an international network of scholars and policy-makers to generate and share research on the green economy. Secondly, the programme will involve multiple academic and non-academic partners in this process. Thirdly, the organisers will disseminate research outputs via more traditional publication outputs and to partners through a feedback session and policy note. Fourthly, the seminars will stimulate active dialogues with local, national and international policy communities in order to more widely disseminate findings and generate policy relevant recommendations to facilitate future governance. Finally, the research will promote the international profile of the ESRC and participant organisations.Two of the major strengths of the research programme consequently will be its originality and relevance. In view of the former, the issue of the green economy is relatively new, academically novel and is an emerging high-profile global policy agenda. Its cross-cutting nature, moreover, necessitates new ways of working across traditional academic boundaries. The research seminars will therefore address significant gaps in knowledge through generating new resarch and cross-disciplinary comparative insights. In view of the latter, the series will directly input into emerging policy discussions at local, regional, national, EU and global levels via the various partner organisations identified in the application (see 'Case for Support'). The research will be particularly timely in respect of the upcoming Rio+20 event in 2012.

根据UNEP（2011：14）的说法，“对我们普遍的经济范式的幻灭”导致绿色经济进入多个治理水平的公共政策话语，这一概念需要“增加财富的替代范式，其中增加的财富不会导致环境的增长，生态稀缺，生态差异和社会际差异。这种幻灭的大部分是由于气候变化，生物多样性丧失和不可持续的消费所带来的威胁而产生的，这些威胁将在将来加剧，从而为现有的社会经济系统带来了挑战。因此，绿色经济体更全面地整合环境问题将涉及当前的治理结构的重大转变，以重新定向市场，转移消费模式并重新分配资源，以增强环境保护和社会福祉，这是联合国最近的全球倡议中认可的因素，例如联合国的全球绿色新经济和绿色经济计划（Unep 2009，2011，2011）。在欧盟内部，促进绿色/低碳经济增长现在已成为2010年里斯本战略（里斯本2020）的战略优先事项（CEC 2010）。此外，绿色经济是即将在2012年举行的联合国RIO+20可持续发展会议上的战略主题，确保其仍然是未来治理优先事项的最前沿。但是，绿色经济仍然是一个有些模糊和潜在的概念，需要进一步的经验和理论阐述，以提供规范政策策略。对于某些环保主义者而言，绿色经济仍然存在争议，因为它似乎降级了长期的可持续性问题，以支持经济问题，同时认可以技术为中心的发展观点（Jackson 2009）。这是我们寻求在研究研讨会系列中研究的关键问题。在这方面，研讨会系列旨在基于对申请人进行绿色预算的现有调查（例如Russel and Benson 2011; O'Riordan 2011; O'Riordan 2011）等，以便对绿色经济概念进行进一步的经验，理论和规范性研究，以实现绿色经济概念的方式和整合EU，并集成了EU的绿色经济概念。研讨会系列还旨在激发辩论，并就潜在治理解决方案提供有关政策的相关建议。几个审核目标是这个目标的核心。首先，研讨会计划将建立一个国际学者和决策者网络，以生成和分享有关绿色经济的研究。其次，该计划将在此过程中涉及多个学术和非学术伙伴。第三，组织者将通过更传统的出版物输出和合作伙伴通过反馈会议和政策说明传播研究产出。第四，研讨会将激发与地方，国家和国际政策社区的积极对话，以便更广泛地传播发现并提出与政策相关的建议，以促进未来的治理。最后，这项研究将促进ESRC和参与者组织的国际概况。因此，研究计划的主要优势将是其独创性和相关性。鉴于前者，绿色经济的问题是相对较新的，学术上新颖的，并且是一个备受瞩目的全球政策议程。此外，它的横切性质需要跨传统学术界限的新方法。因此，研究研讨会将通过产生新的Resarch和跨学科比较见解来解决知识的巨大差距。鉴于后者，该系列将直接通过应用程序中确定的各种合作伙伴组织在本地，区域，国家，欧盟和全球级别进行新兴政策讨论（请参阅“支持案例”）。这项研究将在2012年即将举行的RIO+20事件方面尤其及时。