Agency in earth system governance: refining a research agenda
Agency in earth system governance: refining a research agenda
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地球系统治理机构：完善研究议程
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2011
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M. Betsill
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作者：
E. Dellas;P. Pattberg;M. Betsill
面对全球环境变化，社会科学的一个关键问题是如何组织社会及其自然环境的共同进化。在这方面，一个新的长期研究方案，地球系统治理项目，提出了几个关键问题，以审查：架构，机构，适应性，问责制，分配和访问。对这一特刊的贡献集中在对代理的分析问题上。例如，它们审查了新出现的或研究不足的全球环境治理机构，或在清洁发展机制等现有治理机制的背景下对机构进行了新的评估。这篇结论性文章概述了对这一期特刊的贡献所提供的一些见解，涉及全球环境治理中机构研究的四个关键问题。第一，它们首先提请注意作为代理特征的成分或过程，从而将行为者与代理人区分开来。其次，作者强调了代理之间的差异以及它们如何相互作用。第三，他们指出代理人可能获得权威的方式的变化。最后，对这一特殊问题的贡献表明，可能有几种方法来评估机构，具有不同的后果。因此，总的来说，对这一特殊问题的贡献提供了一个起点，扩大我们对地球系统治理中的机构的理解。
In the face of global environmental change, a key question for the social sciences is how to organize the co-evolution of societies and their natural environment. In this context, a new long-term research program, the Earth System Governance Project, proposes several key issues to be examined: architecture, agency, adaptiveness, accountability, and allocation and access. The contributions to this special issue have focused on the analytical problem of agency. For example, they have examined newly emerging or understudied agents of global environmental governance, or offered a fresh assessment of agency in the context of existing governance mechanisms such as the Clean Development Mechanism. This concluding article outlines several insights provided by the contributions to this special issue regarding four key questions underlying the study of agency in global environmental governance. First, they call attention to the ingredients or processes that characterize agency in the first place and thus distinguish actors from agents. Secondly, the authors highlight the differences among agents and how they interact with each other. Thirdly, they point toward variation in the ways that agents may acquire authority. Finally, the contributions to this special issue suggest that there may be several approaches to evaluating agency, with different consequences. Thus, taken together, the contributions to this special issue provide a starting point for broadening our understanding of agency in earth system governance.