The role of scientists in the environmental policy process: a case study from the American west

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent Steel ◽  
Peter List ◽  
Denise Lach ◽  
Bruce Shindler
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
American West

The administrative state in food policymaking: a fait accompli

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Bancerz
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Administrative State ◽  
Nonstate Actors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Elite Interviews

PurposeThis paper analyzes scholarly literature and the development of a nonstate food strategy in Canada, the Conference Board of Canada's Canadian Food Strategy, to explore the role of the administrative state in food policymaking.Design/methodology/approachThis research is based on an exploratory case study drawing data from 38 semistructured interviews, including elite interviews. It also draws on policy documents from the nonstate food strategy.FindingsThis paper shows that various nonstate actors, including large food industry players, identify a role for the state in food policy in two ways: as a “conductor,” playing a managing role in the food policy process, and as a “commander,” taking control of policy development and involving nonstate actors when necessary. The complex and wicked aspects of food policy require the administrative state's involvement in food policymaking, while tamer aspects of food policy may be less state-centric.Originality/valueThis paper fills gaps in studies exploring food policymaking processes as well as the administrative state's role in food policymaking in a governance era. It contributes to a better understanding of the state's role in complex and wicked policy domains.

Beyond developmentalism: the role of experts and expertise in Turkey’s environmental policy disputes

2018 ◽  
pp. 123-142
Author(s):  
Gökhan Orhan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Policy Positions ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Environmental Discourses ◽  
Interest Policy

Although perceptions about expertise in the policy process and its legitimacy has changed over time, environmental policy is a contested policy area with a variety of policy disputes between experts who inform competing policy positions. The distinguished position of experts in the policy process faces a new challenge as lay people and a new breed of embedded experts take dominant interest policy positions in a number of policy disputes. In post-truth situations, it is not expertise but the way one articulates a position that matters. Re-centralisation of policy processes and the predominance of particular economic interests in policy processes sideline experts who are supposed to enlighten the process in the name of common good. The continual sidelining of expert opinions, including that of professional chambers and predominance of developmentalist discourses characterize environmental policy processes in Turkey. Experts from a variety of public authorities are bypassed to enable environmentally risky development projects without much deliberation, despite experts’ opposition on the grounds of environmental, ecological, economic and social infeasibility of such projects. Embedded experts have been available for most of the occasions and use of environmental discourses has been a common feature of legitimization process.

scholarly journals Incorporating Science into the Environmental Policy Process: a Case Study from Washington State

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tessa B. Francis ◽  
Kara A. Whittaker ◽  
Vivek Shandas ◽  
April V. Mills ◽  
Jessica K. Graybill
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Washington State

Unravelling a ‘spun’ policy: a case study of the constitutive role of ‘spin’ in the education policy process

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Gewirtz * ◽  
Marny Dickson ◽  
Sally Power
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Policy Process

scholarly journals The Role of Law in Transformative Environmental Policies—A Case Study of “Timber in Buildings Construction in Germany”

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grit Ludwig
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Course Stability

Over the last decades, environmental law has significantly contributed to limiting the environmental impacts of our mode of living. Yet environmental problems still prevail and are strongly linked to our production and consumption systems. Therefore, the current challenges must be tackled with a systemic approach. The concept of transformative environmental policy identifies approaches for policymakers to interfere in socio-economic systems in order to give them a more sustainable structure. This article seeks to identify the contributions that law can make to a transformation towards sustainability. For illustrative purposes, I point out the concrete steps in a case study on increasing the use of timber in buildings construction in Germany. I argue that law plays a role in all three phases of a transformation/transition. The legal framework must enable innovations and experiments in the first transformation phase, come up with restricting regulations for old non-sustainable structures in the second phase, and in the third phase provide course stability for the new system. I conclude that the concept of transformative environmental policy helps to design adaptations of the legal framework in order to transform socio-economic and socio-technical systems towards more sustainability.

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