Connecting social and environmental policy in Australia

Collateral gains or collateral damage

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11959347
AutoresGreg Marston (0000-0002-0263-140X, The University of Queensland Brisbane Australia, autor de correspondencia), Alastair Stark (0000-0001-6756-4028, The University of Queensland Brisbane Australia), Tony Matthews (0000-0003-0838-5462, Griffith University Brisbane Australia), Douglas Baker (0000-0001-8812-8567, Queensland University of Technology Brisbane Australia)
Año2018
Volumen78
Número1
Páginas3-16
Fecha de publicación2018-08-08
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAustralian Journal of Public Administration (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0313-6647 • E-ISSN: 1467-8500
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-8500.12339
OpenAlexW2887933335
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas28

Climate change research relating to “co‐benefits” suggests that the facilitation of social‐welfare outcomes through environmental policy offers a powerful means of incentivising climate change action. Concerns about social‐welfare, however, are often used to undermine climate change policies, typically through political claims that low‐to‐middle‐income households should not shoulder the costs of greater policy alignment between social and environmental objectives. Integrating the social into the environmental can therefore, on the one hand, lead to “co‐benefits” as each agenda promotes the other in political discourse, or alternatively to collateral damage if the policy objectives are framed as incompatible. This article explores both scenarios through two case studies of energy policy in Australia. The findings show that social‐welfare concerns can be a powerful discursive tool with the potential to facilitate political consensus, but also that this potential is not being fully realised, primarily because environmental concerns suffer when attempts are made to integrate the two areas discursively

Action (physics · Business · Climate change · Collateral · Collateral damage · Economics · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Social policy · Social Welfare · Sociology · Welfare · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Law · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Finance