Global climate change in Asia: the politics of public policy-making and science agenda setting

1994 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas B Smith
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Public Policy Making

scholarly journals Economic policy making for environmental problems as an interactive learning process

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-335
Author(s):  
M. P. De Wit
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Interactive Learning ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Environmental Problems

The foremost limitation of public policy approaches is that the context of the public policy problem is not taken into account. In the case of complex and dynamic environmental problems, such as global climate change, there is a need for a framework for approaching economic policy that takes account of the complexity and changing realities of such problems. The objective of this paper is to present a framework to approach economic policy making in a case of such complex and dynamic environmental problems. The literature on economic and public policy theories, the need for a systematic policy design process and approaches to complexity and dynamics in policy making is framework available to one where the focus is on the best learning process to facilitate economic policy making on complex and dynamic environmental problems. Based on sociological models of experiential learning, a multiple-loop learning framework (MLLF) is presented. This model illustrates the importance of orchestrated science-policy interactions through interactive learning. The opportunities and limitations of this model are discussed with reference to the debate on economic policy for global climate change.

scholarly journals Uncertain Seasons in the El Niño Continent: Local and Global Views

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Libby Robin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
The State ◽  
Seasonal Patterns ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Local Weather

As global climate change shifts seasonal patterns, local and uncertain seasons of Australia have global relevance. Australia’s literature tracks extreme local weather events, exploring ‘slow catastrophes’ and ‘endurance.’ Humanists can change public policy in times when stress is a state of life, by reflecting on the psyches of individuals, rather than the patterns of the state. ‘Probable’ futures, generated by mathematical models that predict nature and economics, have little to say about living with extreme weather. Hope is not easily modelled. The frameworks that enable hopeful futures are qualitatively different. They can explore the unimaginable by offering an ‘interior apprehension.’

Incorporating Energy Criteria in Intermodal Transportation Policy Decisions

1996 ◽  
Vol 1522 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-86
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Bester
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Growth Management ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Analysis Methods

Regional and local governments are collectively responsible for maintaining the economic health of their communities and managing traffic congestion, air quality, land use, and other related growth-management issues. Yet global climate change and air quality problems result from the consumption of energy in the production of goods and services that help sustain the economy. Public policy solutions to such problems are often difficult to design because of the interrelated nature of the environment, economic activities, and the infrastructure that links them together. A conceptual framework for thinking about the market behavior of consumers and producers as cost minimizers and offering a new way to design public policies using economic and energy efficiency goals is presented for the use of public-policy makers. Production theory can be used to explain how land, vehicles, infrastructure, and energy are combined to produce transportation goods and services. Heat and waste by-products from the production process act as the precursors of air pollution and other global climate-change problems. If public policies are designed to minimize such problems, policy analysis methods need to include those factors that help determine the cost and benefits of prospective policy alternatives, as well as information on how the net benefits of such policies are redistributed in society. A list of criteria to use in selecting analysis methods for this purpose is suggested.

Preliminary Study on Regional SD Model of Low-Carbon Economy

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 2607-2610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Yuan He
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Carbon Economy

In response to global climate change, how to develop low-carbon economy in the longer term has become a hot topic in current research. The realization of low-carbon economy is not simply been technical but policy-making methods need to be conducted in-depth research. A social orientation would only display its deviation after being practiced, but we may not have the chance to bear the cost. So the inevitable choice could be that we simulate and predict the possible consequence and analyze possible scenarios before the orientation being developed. In this paper, a regional low-carbon economic system has been developed based on the innovation of existing research on sustainable development.

ROLLING THE DICE IN THE CORRIDORS OF POWER: WILLIAM NORDHAUS’S IMPACTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY

2020 ◽  
pp. 2040001
Author(s):  
JOSEPH E. ALDY ◽  
ROBERT N. STAVINS
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Change Analysis ◽  
Direct Contribution ◽  
Climate Change Analysis ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Long Run

The seminal contributions of William Nordhaus to scholarship on the long-run macroeconomics of global climate change are clear. Much more challenging to identify are the impacts of Nordhaus and his research on public policy in this domain. We examine three conceptually distinct pathways for that influence: his personal participation in the policy world; his research’s direct contribution to the formulation and evaluation of public policy; and his research’s indirect role informing public policy. Many of the themes that emerge in this assessment of the contributions of one of the most important economists to have worked in the domain of climate change analysis apply more broadly to the roles played by other leading economists in this and other policy domains.

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