The Eco-Scalar Fix: Rescaling Environmental Governance and the Politics of Ecological Boundaries in Alberta, Canada
The Eco-Scalar Fix: Rescaling Environmental Governance and the Politics of Ecological Boundaries in Alberta, Canada
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生态标量修复：重新调整加拿大艾伯塔省的环境治理和生态边界政治
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2014
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K. Bakker
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Alice Cohen;K. Bakker
本文涉及政治生态学的最新研究，探讨了规模在环境治理中的重叠方式。具体来说，我们分析了部署特定的生态尺度作为puectile的“自然”治理单位在重新缩放过程。为了进行这一分析，本文将两组文献纳入对话：（1）规模的政治生态学和（2）重新调整规模的政治经济学，借鉴不平衡发展理论。在此文献的基础上，我们开发了生态修复的概念，并通过在加拿大阿尔伯塔的水治理的重新调整的案例研究，探讨其分析潜力。我们认为，虽然“生态标量修复”通常被框定为一个非政治性的治理变化，特别是通过特定规模的框架（即分水岭）作为“自然”，它往往是，事实上，一个深刻的政治举措，重新配置权力结构，并优先考虑一些资源使用的方式，可以巩固，而不是解决，它的目的是解决危机。此外，我们认为，虽然流域治理往往是discursively描述为一种环境战略（例如，通过调整决策与生态边界的内部化环境外部性），它往往是阐明，并着手解决通过不平衡的发展过程中出现的挑战。
This paper engages with recent work in political ecology that explores the ways in which scale is imbricated in environmental governance. Specifically, we analyze the deployment of specific ecological scales as putatively ‘natural’ governance units in rescaling processes. To undertake this analysis, the paper brings two sets of literature into dialogue: (1) political ecology of scale and (2) political economy of rescaling, drawing on theories of uneven development. Building on this literature, we develop the concept of an ecoscalar fix and explore its analytical potential through a case study of the rescaling of water governance in Alberta, Canada. We argue that although the ‘eco-scalar fix’ is usually framed as an apolitical governance change—particularly through the framing of particular scales (ie, the watershed) as ‘natural’—it is often, in fact, a deeply political move that reconfigures power structures and prioritizes some resource uses over others in ways that can entrench, rather than resolve, the crises it was designed to address. Moreover, we suggest that, although watershed governance is often discursively depicted as an environmental strategy (eg, internalizing environmental externalities by aligning decision making with ecological boundaries), it is often articulated with—and undertaken to address challenges that arise through—processes of uneven development.