Achieving Environmental and Global Climate Goals by Governmental Regulatory Targeting
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Ashford, Nicholas A.
Hall, Ralph
Date Issued
2018
Publisher
Journal of Ecological Economics
Citation
Ashford, N. A. and R. P. Hall (2018). “Achieving Environmental and Global Climate Goals by Governmental Regulatory Targeting” Journal of Ecological Economics 152: 246-259.
Abstract
Strategic niche management and transition management have been promoted as useful avenues to pursue in
order to achieve both specific product or process changes and system transformation by focusing on technology
development through evolutionary and co-evolutionary processes, guided by government and relevant stakeholders.
However, these processes are acknowledged to require decades to achieve their intended changes, a
timeframe that is too long to adequately address many of the environmental and social issues many industrialized
and industrializing nations are facing. An approach that involves incumbents and does not consider
targets that look beyond reasonably foreseeable technology is likely to advance a model where incumbents evolve
rather than being replaced or displaced. On the other hand, approaches that focus on creating new entrants could
nurture niche development or deployment of disruptive technologies, but those technologies may only be
marginally better than the technologies they replace. Either approach may take a long time to achieve their
goals. Sustainable development requires both radical disruptive technological and institutional changes, the
latter including stringent regulation, the integration of disparate goals, and changes in incentives to enable new
voices to contribute to new systems and solutions. This paper outlines options for a strong governmental role in
setting future sustainability goals and the pathways for achieving them.
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