Regulatory thickening and the politics of market-oriented environmental policy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5036993
AutoresChristopher M Rea (0000-0002-1376-7433, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen28
Número7
Páginas1167-1191
Fecha de publicación2019-11-10
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironmental Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09644016.2018.1507466
OpenAlexW2886031653
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas60

Scholars of environmental market-based policy instruments (MBIs), such as cap-and-trade and biodiversity offsetting programs, have extensively documented MBI's market-like features, including the ways they incentivize producing environmental quality, risk subordinating nature protection to capital accumulation, and are supported by state-driven projects of market-building (‘re-regulation’). A less emphasized dimension of MBIs is examined: the ways these institutions are founded upon a substantial thickening of state infrastructural power, which amounts to expanding state control over economic and environmental life in ways that outstrip processes of re-regulation. Appreciating the linkages between MBIs and expanding state control over environmental quality may help explain routine conservative resistance to these policy developments. Affinities between MBIs and regulatory thickening also call into question the degree to which MBIs should be thought of as ‘liberalizing’ policy instruments and suggests that, perhaps counterintuitively, the growth of MBIs may present new opportunities for expanding public control over environmental quality

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental quality · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Environmental Conservation and Management · Law