Governing municipal waste: Towards a new analytical framework
Governing municipal waste: Towards a new analytical framework
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治理城市垃圾：迈向新的分析框架
DOI：
10.1080/15239080500251700
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
P. Weaver
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作者：
H. Bulkeley;M. Watson;R. Hudson;P. Weaver
摘要 近年来，英国产生的城市垃圾量不断增加，其政治重要性迅速上升。在本文中，我们概述了一个研究项目的初步结果，该项目正在研究英格兰东北部城市垃圾政策（MWP）的性质和发展。我们概述了可持续城市废物政策不断变化的国家、区域和地方政策框架，认为欧洲垃圾填埋场指令对各级政策优先事项和目标产生了深远影响。尽管如此，评论家和政策制定者都发现了进步的重大“障碍”，包括机构碎片化、不稳定和不确定性、财政限制和公众参与。虽然“障碍”的比喻有助于识别一些关键挑战，但我们认为它仅提供了对当前问题的片面看法，并且可能会导致“技术”和“社会”之间以及政策制定和实践之间的无益分歧永久化。在本文中，我们基于对政策构建和争论的多种治理模式的理解，开发了一个新的概念框架来分析 MWP。我们认为，这种方法也适用于环境政策和规划的其他领域，迄今为止，这些领域仅部分参与了有关国家和治理性质变化的更广泛辩论。我们认为，将这些问题纳入环境政策和规划的分析中是未来研究的一个关键挑战。
Abstract Recent years have seen a rapid rise in the political saliency of the ever growing volumes of municipal waste produced in the UK. In this paper, we outline the preliminary findings of a research project that is examining the nature and development of municipal waste policy (MWP) in north-east England. We provide an overview of the changing national, regional and local policy framework for sustainable municipal waste policy, arguing that the European Landfill Directive has had a profound impact on policy priorities and goals at all levels. Nonetheless, commentators and policy makers alike have identified significant ‘barriers’ to progress, including institutional fragmentation, instability and uncertainty, financial constraints, and public participation. While the ‘barriers’ metaphor has served to identify some of the key challenges, we suggest that it offers only a partial view of the issues at hand and can serve to perpetuate an unhelpful division between the ‘technical’ and ‘social’, and between policy making and practice. In this paper, we develop a new conceptual framework for analysing MWP based on an understanding of the multiple modes of governing through which policy is constructed and contested. We argue that this approach is also relevant for other areas of environmental policy and planning which have, to date, only partially engaged with broader debates about the changing nature of the state and governance. Bringing these concerns into the analysis of environmental policy and planning is, we believe, a key challenge for future research.