Long-Term environmental policy challenges for research
- Long-term policy issues are a particularly vexing class of environmental policy issues which merit increasing attention due to the long-time horizons involved, the incongruity with political cycles, and the challenges for collective action. Following the definition of long-term environmental policy challenges, I pose three questions as challenges for future research, namely 1. Are present democracies well suited to cope with long-term policy challenges? 2. Are top-down or bottom-up solutions to long-term environmental policy challenges advisable? 3. Will mitigation and adaptation of environmental challenges suffice? In concluding, the contribution raises the issue of credible commitment for long-term policy issues and potential design options.
Author details: | Detlef F. SprinzORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1070496511435667 |
ISSN: | 1070-4965 |
Title of parent work (English): | The journal of environment & development : a review of international policy |
Publisher: | Sage Publ. |
Place of publishing: | Thousand Oaks |
Publication type: | Preprint |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2012 |
Publication year: | 2012 |
Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
Tag: | anniversary issue; definition; design options; environmental policy; long-term policy |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 1 |
Number of pages: | 4 |
First page: | 67 |
Last Page: | 70 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
Peer review: | Referiert |