Hi all, We have had submissions for the panel on thermostatic institutions extended until Feb 14th. If you are interested in submitted an abstract, please let us know.
Best Ben T14P17 / Uncovering and Prescribing Thermostatic Institutions for the Climate Crisis: A Research Agenda Topic : T14 / GLOBAL WARMING, SDG, ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND POLICY Chair : Benjamin Cashore (National University of Singapore) Second Chair : Charlotte Halpern (Sciences Po, Centre for European studies and comparative politics (CEE)) Third Chair : Philippe Zittoun (LAET-ENTPE, University of Lyon) For over 30 years sustainability practitioners and scholars have sought to generate policy pathways which to foster transformative climate friendly behaviours and just transitions. Despite significant strides being made in understanding how low carbon transitions might be nurtured, there remains universal concern about how to accelerate changes consistent with the 1.5/2 degree imperative. The propose of this call for papers is to focus attention analytical attention on the role of “thermostatic institutions” in helping foster transformative change. Cashore and Howlett (2007) first conceptualized, and defined, thermostatic institutions as well entrenched systems of governing authority whose sole purpose is to maintain a clearly specified policy objective (just the way a house’s thermostat is designed to maintain a constant internal temperature). Drawing on the case of successful management of an endangered species, Cashore and Howlett challenged extant characterizations of policy as either being in, or out, of equilibrium, to instead focused attention on what aspects of a policy elements were changing and which were being stable or “resilient”. Our panel seeks to foster a research agenda capable of uncovering, explaining, and prescribing thermostatic institutions with which to assist in managing the climate crisis. Our point of departure is that while transitions and path dependency scholarship has made important breakthroughs, much more empirical and conceptual work needs to be placed on identifying durable institutional arenas with which to manage for particularly important policy objectives. Indeed, Auld, Bernstein, Cashore and Levin (2021) found that successful cases of covid management around the world all seemed to share thermostatic institutional features – i.e. capable of adjusting policy settings, calibrations and tools in order to maintain objectives focused on saving the most lives. Drawing on Cashore’s book on sustainability governance (2022 In progress) we are particularly interested in papers that will help contribute towards building a research agenda aimed at documenting and understanding existing thermostatic institutions, with the goal of offering design principles to accelerate their development for climate related challenges. CALL FOR PAPERS https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icpp6-toronto-2023/17 Ben Cashore Li Ka Shing Professor in Public Management Director, the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)<https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/ies/> Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore [signature_3304329127] Recent publications 2022 Benjamin Cashore and Steven Bernstein. “Bringing the Environment Back In: Overcoming the Tragedy of the Diffusion of Commons Metaphor<https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592721002553>”, Perspectives on Politics 2022 Leehi Yona, Benjamin Cashore and Mark A. Bradford. “Factors Influencing the Development and Implementation of Greenhouse Gas Inventories<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/10.1080/25741292.2021.2020967?scroll=top&needAccess=true#metrics-content>,” Policy Design and Practice Contact information: Block 469C Bukit Timah Road, Oei Tiong Ham Building, Wing A, Level 2, 259772, Singapore, 259772; tel +65 6516 6195; Email: spp...@nus.edu.sg<mailto:spp...@nus.edu.sg> ; Overview video<https://youtu.be/DPSmWLQ3LVo>; Web site<http://:%20https:/lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/our-people/faculty/benjamin-william-cashore;>; Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DkfzcnwAAAAJ&hl=en>; twitter<https://twitter.com/bencashore>; linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-cashore-0a8785/>; Personal zoom office<https://nus-sg.zoom.us/my/bcfrombc?pwd=TTUwU2V1QWhPc2Z2MDB3OE9GRjhOUT09> ________________________________ Important: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/A9B8653D-7158-434D-8B2F-43E557EFC354%40nus.edu.sg.
