Bitte verwenden Sie diesen Link, um diese Publikation zu zitieren, oder auf sie als Internetquelle zu verweisen: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/48812 
Kompletter Metadatensatz
DublinCore-FeldWertSprache
dc.contributor.authorGalvin, Rayen
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-17-
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-17T12:32:34Z-
dc.date.available2011-08-17T12:32:34Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/48812-
dc.description.abstractDiscourse theories offer a penetrating approach to environmental policy analysis, as they focus on the interpretive worlds produced in policy actors' utterances and writings, and the argumentative struggles that lead to one view dominating over others in a policy domain. However they fail to theorise the relationships between policy discourse and the material realities that are the objects of policy. This is because their social constructivist epistemology deprives them of criteria for judging the comparative reliability of scientists' and others' knowledge of these material objects. This limits their explanatory power, since the material world is a certain way, and therefore influences what policymakers can successfully do. This paper offers a 'modest realist' approach to fill this gap. It defends a thoroughly social constructivist understanding of knowledge, yet argues there are good grounds for maintaining that the knowledge of material objects produced in the natural sciences is far more reliable than that produced elsewhere. But such an approach demands trans-disciplinary skills of the policy analyst, including detailed engagement with the relevant area of natural science and its global peer-review community. When done carefully, this approach can add a further explanatory variable to policy analysis, namely the behaviour of the materiality the policy is aimed at.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity of East Anglia, The Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) |cNorwichen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aCSERGE Working Paper |x2011-02en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordenvironmental policy analysisen
dc.subject.keywordmaterialityen
dc.subject.keywordmodest realismen
dc.subject.keywordpolicy discourse theoryen
dc.titleEnvironmental policy discourse and its material objects: Bridging the gap with 'modest realism'-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn662355482en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

Datei(en):
Datei
Größe
576.25 kB





Publikationen in EconStor sind urheberrechtlich geschützt.