Benefit cost analysis, resilience and climate change
| Autor: | Stephen Knight-Lenihan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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0106 biological sciences
Atmospheric Science Global and Planetary Change Social stability Cost–benefit analysis business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Environmental resource management 0211 other engineering and technologies Climate change 021107 urban & regional planning Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Management Monitoring Policy and Law Environmental economics 01 natural sciences Preference 010601 ecology Land transport Social system Psychological resilience business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Climate Policy. 16:909-923 |
| ISSN: | 1752-7457 1469-3062 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14693062.2015.1052957 |
| Popis: | Applying a resilience theory framework, land transport funding in New Zealand is used to show how benefit cost analysis can reinforce a preference for maintaining existing economic and social systems when, instead, consideration of more socially disruptive options may be required. In this context, resilience is seen as the ability to maintain transport systems rather than the ability to reduce the probability of climate change. The latter role of resilience attempts to identify thresholds and regime shifts, and so critiques decision-making processes, while the former privileges social stability, thereby reducing the range of potentially useful emission mitigation options to be considered.Policy relevanceTransitioning to a lower-carbon future requires policy formulation that challenges business-as-usual assumptions. Benefit cost analysis can be applied in ways that create barriers to such transitioning. The New Zealand case study identifies the conditions under which this can be the case. That benefit cost... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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