From sustainable development to carbon control: Eco-state restructuring and the politics of urban and regional development
From sustainable development to carbon control: Eco-state restructuring and the politics of urban and regional development
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00362.x
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
A. While;Andrew E. G. Jonas;D. Gibbs
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作者：
A. While;Andrew E. G. Jonas;D. Gibbs
碳排放的管理在挑战可持续发展作为社会环境监管的组织原则方面具有一定前景。本文探讨了一种独特的低碳政体作为一种意识形态国家项目的兴起，并考察了它对城市和区域层面的经济 - 环境关系监管的潜在影响。碳控制似乎将一套新的价值观引入国家监管中，这可能为挑战城市和区域发展的主流模式开辟可能性，而这种可能性在可持续发展模式下是不存在的。但是低碳重组也预示着不平衡发展加剧、新的国家控制形式以及国家 - 社会关系在社会层面的不均衡重塑。为了探讨这些问题，我们首先围绕生态国家重组的理念构建一个用于概念化环境监管的框架。引入这一理念是为了捕捉政府在寻求协调环境保护与多种其他压力和需求时所涉及的冲突、权力斗争和战略选择性。总体而言，本文力求对国家环境监管的理论研究以及气候政策新出现的空间维度做出独特贡献。
The management of carbon emissions holds some prospect for challenging sustainable development as the organising principle of socio-environmental regulation. This paper explores the rise of a distinctive low-carbon polity as an ideological state project, and examines its potential ramifications for the regulation of economy–environment relations at the urban and regional scale. Carbon control would seem to introduce a new set of values into state regulation and this might open up possibilities for challenging mainstream modes of urban and regional development in a manner not possible under sustainable development. But low-carbon restructuring also portends intensified uneven development, new forms of state control and a socially uneven reworking of state–society relations. In order to explore these issues we start by setting out a framework for conceptualising environmental regulation based around the idea of eco-state restructuring. This idea is introduced to capture the conflicts, power struggles and strategic selectivities involved as governments seek to reconcile environmental protection with multiple other pressures and demands. Overall the paper seeks to make a distinctive contribution to theoretical work on state environmental regulation and the emerging spatial dimensions of climate policy.