Innovations in Policy Making: Applying Reversibility and Polycentric Governance in the India-UK Cooperation for Environmental Development

在过去的半个世纪里，全球经济的增长对环境造成了不可逆转的代价。拟议的项目旨在了解决策者在建设进化复原能力的同时，为避免资源开发和环境退化方面不可逆转的后果而面临的挑战。本研究试图探讨可逆性的概念，结合进化弹性的概念，特别是其方面的多中心治理发展规范的政策分析和负责任的政策制定工具的适用性。从经验上讲，该研究将探讨印度-英国环境发展合作的三个关键举措（“2030年印度-英国路线图”）：城市发展，可持续金融，太阳能。本研究建议，可逆性应指导政策制定过程，并通过多中心治理模式制度化。关键的研究问题是：1）在2030年印度-英国路线图中，城市发展，可持续金融，太阳能倡议的出现和发展过程是什么？2)在上述三个倡议中，可逆性和进化弹性的论述发挥了什么作用？3)什么样的治理机构模式最适合采用可逆性和进化弹性？多中心治理是一种机制，通过这种机制，可逆性和进化弹性可以制度化吗？这项研究将采用三种方法：（a）文件分析;（B）对城市发展、可持续金融和太阳能等专题部门的出现和发展进行系谱研究;（c）与参与这些举措的主要行为者进行访谈。

Global Economic Growth in the past half century has come at irreversible costs to the environment. The proposed project seeks to understand the challenge that policy makers face to avoid irreversible consequences in resource development and environmental degradation, while building evolutionary resilience capacities. The study attempts to explore the applicability of the concept of reversibility in combination with the concept of evolutionary resilience and in particular with its aspect of polycentric governance to develop normative policy analysis and responsible policy making tools. Empirically, the study will explore three key initiatives of the India-UK cooperation for Environmental Development (the "India-UK Roadmap for 2030"): Urban Development, Sustainable Finance, Solar Energy. This study proposes that reversibility should guide policy making processes and be institutionalised through a model of polycentric governance. The key research questions are: 1) What is the process through which the initiatives of Urban Development, Sustainable Finance, Solar Energy have emerged and developed within the India-UK Roadmap for 2030? 2) What role is played, if any, by thediscourses of reversibility and evolutionary resilience in the above three initiatives? 3) What model of governance institutions would be best suited to the adoption of reversibility and evolutionary resilience? Is polycentric governance the mechanism by which reversibility and evolutionary resilience can be institutionalised? The study will utilise three methodological approaches: (a) document analysis (b) the genealogical study of the emergence and development of the thematic divisions of urban development, sustainable finance, and solar energy and (c) interviews with the key actors involved in those initiatives.