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0000-0003-1164-0356
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University of Tasmania
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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1068/C0797J
Abstract: In the UK climate change and energy have converged on the policy agenda. We discuss the implications for theories of policy change based on well-defined networks located within single, discrete, policy domains. We suggest that such approaches struggle to account for the dynamics of change in conditions of policy convergence. The issue of climate change has opened up and destabilised the UK energy policy sector, but this process has been surprisingly free of conflict, despite radical policy shifts. To date, convergence of the energy and climate change sectors has largely occurred at a discursive level, and we focus our attention on a number of different, but largely complementary, storylines about solutions to climate change. We draw on ideas about sociotechnical regime transitions, first, to explore why the storylines are not in obvious conflict, and, second, to identify small-scale niches where tensions in storylines do emerge as discourse is translated into material reality.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-09-2017
Abstract: This article is about a case of policy failure and negative lesson drawing, namely the implementation of a mandatory smart metering programme – the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program – in the State of Victoria, Australia, in the period 2009–2013. The article explores the framing of policy failure, and the ways in which failed polices might be mobile. The Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program provides an important empirical counterbalance to existing scholarship on policy learning, transfer and mobility, which is for the most part about positive best practice case studies, emulation and the travelling of ‘fast’ and (by implication) successful policy. There is evidence that the Victorian Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program circulated domestically within Australia and was influential in policy decision making, but that its international mobility was limited. The case is used to explore what gets left behind – or is immobile – in the telling of policy stories about failure. Science and Technology Studies scholarship on the inherent fragility of sociotechnical networks is drawn upon to consider how the concept of assemblage – a popular conceptual lens within policy mobility scholarship – might be applied to better understand instances of policy failure.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 18-11-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-11-2014
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 25-10-2011
DOI: 10.1108/09513571111184724
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to make sense of the tensions and contradictions between different conceptions of the meaning of carbon accounting. The paper draws on theories of framing to help explain the ergent understandings and practices currently encompassed by the term “carbon accounting”. The empirical core of the paper is based on a review of the literature and illustrated through ex les of some of the contemporary problems in carbon accounting. Tensions and contradictions in carbon accounting can be understood as the result of “collisions” between at least five overlapping frames of reference, namely physical, political, market‐enabling, financial and social/environmental modes of carbon accounting. Unresolved tensions in carbon accounting can undermine confidence in climate science, policies, markets and reporting, thereby ultimately discouraging action to mitigate climate change. Understanding this problem can contribute to finding practical solutions. The paper makes three distinct contributions to the emerging theoretical literature on carbon accounting. First, it provides a unique “unpacked” definition of carbon accounting that attempts to represent the contemporary range of meanings encompassed by the term. Second, it demonstrates how social science ideas about framing can help explain why definitions and understandings of carbon accounting vary. Third, by making the interactions between different forms of carbon accounting explicit through the metaphor of colliding frames of reference, the origins of some of the contemporary intractable issues in carbon accounting can be better understood.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-11-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-02-2018
DOI: 10.1111/GOVE.12340
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-10-2019
Abstract: This paper concerns the movement of negative lessons and worst practice in public policy. It focuses on a relatively new branch of scholarship – policy mobilities – which explores the global movement of policies. Within policy mobilities research there is concern about an empirical bias towards successful policies: there has been insufficient attention to whether policy failures might also be mobile. Ideas and concepts about policy failure from political science, economic geography, and science and technology studies are used to illuminate what is missing from policy mobilities scholarship, why it might be important, and to offer some ways forward.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 15-09-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-04-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-01-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-04-2018
DOI: 10.1111/SORU.12211
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-06-2013
DOI: 10.1111/TRAN.12021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2007
DOI: 10.1068/A38408
Abstract: There remains uncertainty in models of the policy process about how and when radical change takes place. Most policy authors focus on explaining incremental change, and yet in practice a pattern of change described as punctuated equilibrium has been observed, with periods of stability interspersed with periods of rapid, abrupt change. It is argued here that the influence of materials and technologies—the substance of policy—must be incorporated into models of the policy process in order to help further our understanding of radical change. Concepts from science and technology studies concerning the inseparability of social and technical spheres are used to explore how people and materials interact to create opportunities for radical change. These ideas are particularly relevant to policy sectors comprising durable, capital-intensive infrastructure, such as housing. Drawing on ex les from the UK housing sector, ideas about policy networks and large technical systems are synthesised to develop a more holistic, interdisciplinary account of policy change.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2019
Abstract: This short commentary explores two absences in Bulkeley’s (2019) human geographies of climate change. First, the absence of other environment problems, signifying how in the debate about climate change our response often acts to crowd out other problems. Second, in considering the temporal boundaries of climate’s human geographies, the absence of the future, which is increasingly being brought into being by scenarios, visualizations and creative works.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2005
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-12-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-11-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-01-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-08-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-02-2020
DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12613
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-05-2011
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Date: 05-2017
DOI: 10.1162/GLEP_A_00401
Abstract: In the 1990s, civil society organizations partnered with business to “green” global supply chains by setting up formal sustainability standard-setting organizations (SSOs) in sectors including organic food, fair trade, forestry, and fisheries. Although SSOs have withstood the long-standing allegations that they are unnecessary, costly, nondemocratic, and trade-distorting, they must now respond to a new challenge, arising from recent developments in technology. Conceived in the pre-Internet era, SSOs are discovering that verification systems that utilize annual, expert-led, low-tech field audits are under pressure from new information and communication technologies that collect, aggregate, interpret, and display open-source “Big Data” in almost real time. Drawing on the concept of governmentality and on interviews with experts in sustainability certification and natural capital accounting, we argue that while these technological developments offer many positive opportunities, they also enable competing alternatives to the prevailing “truth” or governing rationality about what is happening “on the ground,” which is of critical existential importance to SSOs as guarantors of trust in claims about sustainable production. While SSOs are not helpless in the face of this challenge, we conclude that they will need to do more than take incremental action: rather, they should respond actively to the disintermediation challenge from new virtual monitoring technologies if they are to remain relevant in the coming decade.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 03-12-2020
Abstract: How do bureaucracies remember? The conventional view is that institutional memory is static and singular, the sum of recorded files and learned procedures. There is a growing body of scholarship that suggests contemporary bureaucracies are failing at this core task. This Element argues that this diagnosis misses that memories are essentially dynamic stories. They reside with people and are thus dispersed across the array of actors that make up the differentiated polity. Drawing on four policy ex les from four sectors (housing, energy, family violence and justice) in three countries (the UK, Australia and New Zealand), this Element argues that treating the way institutions remember as storytelling is both empirically salient and normatively desirable. It is concluded that the current conceptualisation of institutional memory needs to be recalibrated to fit the types of policy learning practices required by modern collaborative governance.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2009
DOI: 10.1068/A40345
Abstract: In this paper we examine how theories of sustainable and ethical consumption help us to understand a new, rapidly expanding type of consumer product designed to mitigate climate change: carbon offsets. The voluntary carbon offset market grew by 200% between 2005 and 2006, and there are now over 150 retailers of voluntary carbon offsets worldwide. Our analysis concentrates on the production and consumption of carbon offsets, drawing on ideas from governmentality and political ecology about how narratives and technologies are used to create particular types of consumer subjectivities and shape consumer choice. We critically examine three narratives that offset producers are using to position carbon offsets and examine how these narratives are shaping circuits of carbon offset production and consumption. We assess the implications for the future governance of voluntary carbon offset markets and for the study of alternative consumption.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-04-2016
DOI: 10.1111/PADM.12259
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 02-2007
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1068/C1275
Abstract: In this paper we explore how carbon markets have entered the world of financial accounting. The advent of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in 2005 provided the opportunity for global climate change concerns to be translated from policy into something that could, and should, be recognised within financial accounting. That is, the EU ETS provided a mechanism whereby greenhouse gas emission allowances acquired a financial value, simultaneously creating an obligation (or liability) on certain European organisations when they emit greenhouse gases. Prima facie, this process created the need for financial accounts of companies covered by the EU ETS to reflect the new commodity of carbon. Disagreement amongst accountants about how to treat emission allowances has arisen, with the initial international accounting guidance issued in late 2004 subsequently being withdrawn, and not yet replaced. Taking this absence of guidance as a starting point, we undertake an empirical project (through a survey, consultation analysis, and interviews) to establish what financial reporting practices are being adopted by participants in the EU ETS, and the level of momentum for standardisation. We draw on sociological theories about accounting, measurement, and markets.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2004
Publisher: InTech
Date: 14-11-2012
DOI: 10.5772/3242
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2009
DOI: 10.1068/C0878J
Abstract: In this paper I examine the role of in iduals in the policy process, drawing on research into a number of in iduals active in UK low-energy housing during the 1990s. Kingdon's notion of a policy entrepreneur is critically assessed. Policy entrepreneurs are conceived of as working very closely with government trying to influence the day-to-day operations of the policy process. Here I broaden this definition, suggesting that in iduals active outside of government circles can also have a significant impact on processes of policy change. Concepts from science and technology studies, including actor-network theory and innovation niches, are used to explore the relationship between low-energy housing entrepreneurs, the housing they built, and policy change. Sociotechnical approaches are helpful in thinking about both the potential for in iduals operating outside of the policy arena to influence policy, as well as the agency of materials such as low-energy housing. The policy influence of the entrepreneurs is judged to be twofold: in reframing policy discourse, and in providing a model for new low-energy housing. In conclusion, the importance of attending to the local embeddedness of the entrepreneurs is discussed.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-04-2018
Abstract: This paper explores the emerging role of Big Data in environmental governance. We focus on the case of salmon aquaculture management from 2011 to 2017 in Macquarie Harbour, Australia, and compare this with the foundational case that inspired the development of the concept of ‘translation’ in actor-network theory, that of scallop domestication in St Brieuc Bay, France, in the 1970s. A key difference is the salience of environmental data in the contemporary case. Recent dramatic events in the environmental governance of Macquarie Harbour have been driven by increasing spatial and temporal resolution of environmental monitoring, including real-time data collection from sensors mounted on the fish themselves. The resulting environmental data now takes centre stage in increasingly heated debates over how the harbour should be managed: overturning long-held assumptions about environmental interactions, inducing changes in regulatory practices and institutions, fracturing historical alliances and shaping the on-going legitimacy of the industry. Environmental Big Data is now a key actor within the networks that constitute and enact environmental governance. Given its new and unpredictable agency, control over access to data is likely to become critical in future power struggles over environmental resources and their governance.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-03-2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-05-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S41597-021-00921-Y
Abstract: The IDEAL household energy dataset described here comprises electricity, gas and contextual data from 255 UK homes over a 23-month period ending in June 2018, with a mean participation duration of 286 days. Sensors gathered 1-second electricity data, pulse-level gas data, 12-second temperature, humidity and light data for each room, and 12-second temperature data from boiler pipes for central heating and hot water. 39 homes also included plug-level monitoring of selected electrical appliances, real-power measurement of mains electricity and key sub-circuits, and more detailed temperature monitoring of gas- and heat-using equipment, including radiators and taps. Survey data included occupant demographics, values, attitudes and self-reported energy awareness, household income, energy tariffs, and building, room and appliance characteristics. Linked secondary data comprises weather and level of urbanisation. The data is provided in comma-separated format with a custom-built API to facilitate usage, and has been cleaned and documented. The data has a wide range of applications, including investigating energy demand patterns and drivers, modelling building performance, and undertaking Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring research.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 2019
Funder: Australian Renewable Energy Agency
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2015
End Date: 2015
Funder: National Australia Bank Limited
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 04-2022
End Date: 03-2025
Amount: $242,783.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2015
End Date: 12-2020
Amount: $820,406.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 09-2021
End Date: 09-2024
Amount: $263,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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