Still the century of ‘new’ environmental policy instruments? Exploring patterns of innovation and continuity

Jordan, Andrew, Wurzel, Rüdiger K. W. and Zito, Anthony R. (2013) Still the century of ‘new’ environmental policy instruments? Exploring patterns of innovation and continuity. Environmental Politics, 22 (1). pp. 155-173. ISSN 1743-8934

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Abstract

We re-examine the political interest in and use of ‘new’ environmental policy instruments and other non-regulatory modes of governance. We start by taking stock of the dynamic debate that has emerged around this topic since the turn of the century. We then contextualise that debate by examining subsequent challenges to, and transformations in, state-led governing and the broader and widely acknowledged rise of ‘new governance’, highlighting the mismatch between the animated discussion of new instruments amongst policymakers and academics and the less active adoption and performance of them in practice. We make an overall assessment of the role of instruments – both ‘old’ and ‘new’ – in the wider debate about governance, and suggest some promising steps that could be taken by both practitioners and scholars better to understand and possibly even utilise more new environmental policy instruments in the future.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User:	Andy Jordan
Date Deposited:	29 Apr 2013 14:02
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 02:29
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/41205
DOI:	10.1080/09644016.2013.755839

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