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Environmental problems like climate change, biodiversity loss, overfishing, or waste disposal can have significantly negative impacts on human wellbeing. Much research has been devoted to the problem-solving quality of environmental policies. Yet it is frequently disregarded that environmental politics can also have considerable (re)distributive effects on national and international levels. This panel follows a descriptive and analytical approach discussing domestic examples of the distributive effects of environmental politics on individual life chances. Politics targeted exclusively at mitigating ecological problems are likely to reinforce differences in wealth. For instance, transport politics that are limited to raising gas petrol prices may lower the mobility of poorer segments of the population. In the first place, the panel seeks knowledge about the distributive consequences of environmental politics, i.e., who wins and who loses? Furthermore, it addresses the analytical question which institutional features of environmental policy measures determine wealth inequalities. It investigates what kinds of institutional arrangements can serve to weaken socially undesirable effects of environmental politics.
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| Carbon Pricing in Norway, New Zealand and British Columbia: Consequence of History, Consequence of Opportunity | View Paper Details |
| New inequalities in old industrial towns: Emerging trends in brownfield revitalisation in Eastern Europe | View Paper Details |
| Sharing social benefits and protecting Namibia’s nature - An exceptional African perspective | View Paper Details |
| Analysis of Social and Regional Distribution of Noise Impact caused by Transportation | View Paper Details |
| German climate policy and federalism. Distributive challenges and political solutions | View Paper Details |
| Living Green but Poor? - Investigating the Conflict Between Environmental Justice and the Effectiveness in Climate Mitigation | View Paper Details |
| Institutional challenges of Water Governance to adapt to a Changing Climate – A case study of the Rhine | View Paper Details |