A Policy Mix for Resource Efficiency in the EU: Key Instruments, Challenges and Research Needs
A Policy Mix for Resource Efficiency in the EU: Key Instruments, Challenges and Research Needs
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.05.004
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发表时间：
2019
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7
通讯作者：
H. Wilts;Meghan O’brien
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作者：
H. Wilts;Meghan O’brien
在自然资源经常被浪费的背景下，欧洲联盟已将资源效率作为一项最高政策优先事项。然而，许多会员国的政策制定还处于非常早期的阶段，对资源效率的含义往往概念模糊，其特点是工具分散，职能重叠。本文提出了一个概念框架，用于界定、评估和制定资源效率政策组合。它认为，政策和手段的组合最适合于克服21世纪的复杂挑战。这种组合在战略和高级别上处理多个资源领域，并包含针对多个行为体、各级治理和部门以及资源使用生命周期各阶段的互动工具。本文件着眼于有效的资源效率政策工具的标准，提出了9个政策领域的指示性政策组合和案例研究（对环境有害的补贴，粮食系统和产品服务系统的供应链效率），并确定了克服工具设计中的权衡，最大限度地发挥协同作用，减少冲突，促进一致性，协调活动和从理论走向实践的关键挑战。研究需要讨论谁应该设计，实施和协调这样的政策组合，考虑谈判能力，时间和复杂性。
Against the background of an often wasteful use of natural resources, the European Union has made resource efficiency a top policy priority. Policy formulation is, however, at a very early stage in many Member States, with often vague notions of what resource efficiency means, characterised by fragmented instruments and overlapping competencies. This paper develops a conceptual framework for defining, assessing and developing resource efficiency policy mixes. It argues that a mix of policies and instruments is best suited to overcoming the complex challenges of the 21st Century. Such a mix addresses multiple resource domains at a strategic, high level and contains interacting instruments targeting multiple actors, levels of governance and sectors and life-cycle stages of resource use. This paper looks at criteria for effective resource efficiency policy instruments, presents both an indicative policy mix across 9 policy domains and case studies (on environmental harmful subsidies, supply chain efficiency in food systems and product-service systems) and identifies key challenges to overcome trade-offs in instrument design, maximise synergies, reduce conflicts, promote coherence, coordinate activities and move from theory to practice. Research needs are discussed regarding who shall devise, implement, and coordinate such a policy mix, considering negotiating power, timing and complexity.