Mixed policy feedback and evolution of environmental regulation: analysing instrument recalibration and layering in Danish nitrogen policy
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Mixed policy feedback and evolution of environmental regulation : analysing instrument recalibration and layering in Danish nitrogen policy. / Daugbjerg, Carsten; Bazzan, Giulia.
In: Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2024, p. 104-116.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Mixed policy feedback and evolution of environmental regulation
T2 - analysing instrument recalibration and layering in Danish nitrogen policy
AU - Daugbjerg, Carsten
AU - Bazzan, Giulia
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Recent research has demonstrated that positive and negative feedback can occur simultaneously within environmental policy. This tends to occur when policy has multiple purposes. We engage with the concept of mixed feedback to highlight aspects of the phenomenon that have hitherto not been explored in detail and thus add more nuance to the feedback argument to improve our understanding of environmental policy evolution. Our first argument is that single-purpose policies may generate mixed feedback. Each instrument generates distinct feedback. Secondly, we challenge the assumption that negative feedback undermine policy and suggest that negative feedback may indeed contribute to maintaining policy. For policy to endure over longer periods, it needs to respond to feedback. Thirdly, we argue that mixed instrument feedback can result in a substantial reshuffling of an environmental policy mix through the recalibration of instruments. We use the trajectory of Danish regulation aimed at nitrogen run-offs to coastal waters over almost three decades to illustrate the three arguments.
AB - Recent research has demonstrated that positive and negative feedback can occur simultaneously within environmental policy. This tends to occur when policy has multiple purposes. We engage with the concept of mixed feedback to highlight aspects of the phenomenon that have hitherto not been explored in detail and thus add more nuance to the feedback argument to improve our understanding of environmental policy evolution. Our first argument is that single-purpose policies may generate mixed feedback. Each instrument generates distinct feedback. Secondly, we challenge the assumption that negative feedback undermine policy and suggest that negative feedback may indeed contribute to maintaining policy. For policy to endure over longer periods, it needs to respond to feedback. Thirdly, we argue that mixed instrument feedback can result in a substantial reshuffling of an environmental policy mix through the recalibration of instruments. We use the trajectory of Danish regulation aimed at nitrogen run-offs to coastal waters over almost three decades to illustrate the three arguments.
KW - agri-environmental pollution
KW - Policy feedback
KW - policy instruments
KW - policy mixes
KW - regulation
U2 - 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2286653
DO - 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2286653
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85178213003
VL - 26
SP - 104
EP - 116
JO - Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
JF - Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
SN - 1523-908X
IS - 1
ER -
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