Defra / EA Fellowship: Professor Frances Bowen

该项目将资助一名职业生涯中期的研究人员在环境、食品和农村事务部(Defra)和环境局(EA)更好的监管小组工作9个月。“更好的监管”是英国政府制定监管的方法，旨在实现预期的结果，同时避免意外后果，并限制公司、消费者和纳税人的成本。对于Defra和EA来说，挑战是改善、简化、巩固甚至取消环境法规，同时至少实现环境、社会和经济的同等结果。学术研究可以通过提供各种环境监管方法的影响、成本和收益的证据，为如何应对这一挑战提供有用的指导。该项目将使专门研究公司对环境法规的反应的研究人员能够向Defra和EA提供他们的专业知识。在奖学金期间，研究人员将(1)整理关于环境监管、创新、企业业绩和经济增长之间关系的研究证据，以及(2)咨询这些机构和其他政府机构，为未来更好地监管以实现可持续经济而制定行动计划。

This project will fund a fellowship placement for a mid-career researcher to work for 9 months with the better regulation teams at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Environment Agency (EA). 'Better Regulation' is the UK government's approach to developing regulation that achieves the desired outcome while avoiding unintended consequences and limiting costs for companies, consumers and the taxpayer. For Defra and the EA, the challenge is to improve, simplify, consolidate and even remove environmental regulations, while achieving at least equivalent outcomes for the environment, society and the economy. Academic research can offer useful guidance on how to tackle this challenge through providing evidence on the impacts, costs and benefits of various approaches to environmental regulation. The project will enable a researcher who specialises in company responses to environmental regulation to provide their expertise to Defra and the EA. During the fellowship the researcher will (1) collate research evidence on the relationships between environmental regulation, innovation, firm performance and economic growth, and (2) consult these and other government agencies to develop an action plan for future research collaboration on better regulation for a sustainable economy.