Dear all, Sorry for the delay. I was at LASA 2013 in Washington DC two weeks ago and IASC 2013 last week, so I've been away from anything other than academic conferences. But several emails by dear colleagues have prompted me to just focus and get this summary done. It's pasted at the end of my note.
There were a few folks who were kind enough to email me their publications (Pam Jagger, Johannes Stripple and Kathy McAffee). I compiled these PDFs in a Dropbox folder and in a Mendeley one. I can share them individually if you email me off the list-serve as I don't want to violate any copyright laws! Thanks so much for the suggestions. Hope the summary is useful. My original request was: Folks, I am looking for literature that I recognize is extremely specific, e.g. scholarship on evaluation of public policies to tackle climatic change. I am aware that the literature in recent years has tried to tackle issues of discounting rates when assessing climate policy instruments, introducing elements of uncertainty, and moving the discussion from instruments for mitigation to instruments for adaptation. However, I'm not 100% sure if there is a growing body of scholarship on evaluting climate policies, and if so, the main representatives/some key citations. I've seen some recent work by Frisch (2013) and Grafakos et al (2010, 2013) but I am relying on those of you who know more the climate policy field than I do to help me out here. If anybody has suggestions, please send them my way and I'll compile them (you can email me offline if you prefer to avoid clogging people's inboxes). Thanks! Raul Responses: *Pam Jagger sent these related files:* Caplow, S., Jagger, P., Lawlor, K., & Sills, E. (2011). Evaluating land use and livelihood impacts of early forest carbon projects: Lessons for learning about REDD+. *Environmental Science & Policy*, *14*(2), 152–167. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2010.10.003 Jagger, P., Sills, E. O., Lawlor, K., & Sunderlin, W. D. (2010). *A guide to learning about livelihood impacts of REDD + projects* (p. 110). Bogor, Indonesia: CIFOR. *Kathy McAffee sent these related files* McAfee, K. (2012a). The Contradictory Logic of Global Ecosystem Services Markets. *Development and Change*, *43*(1), 105–131. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01745.x McAfee, K. (2012b). Nature in the Market-World: Ecosystem services and inequality. *Development*, *55*(1), 25–33. doi:10.1057/dev.2011.105 McAfee, K., & Shapiro, E. N. (2010). Payments for Ecosystem Services in Mexico: Nature, Neoliberalism, Social Movements, and the State. *Annals of the Association of American Geographers*, *100*(3), 579–599. doi:10.1080/00045601003794833 *Owen Temby:* Raul, yes, check out the environmental policy integration (epi) literature out of Sweden. Lafferty 2003, Nilsson, persson (?), etc. I am engaging with it in my climate change adaptation collaborative networks papers. They evaluate the state of sustainabiliy policy integration. My research examines the effects of a range of network properties on clim change adaptation policy coordination. Also, check out Gary Bryner's 2012 MIT book on climate change policy integration, finished by Duffy after Bryner died. Good stuff *Johannes Stripple:* Hi Raul, have you had a look at the large meta-assessment of climate policy evaluations that we did? We compared 240+ evaluations of climate policy. The two articles below summarise the content and the practice of evaluations. Haug, C., Rayner, T., Huitema, D., Hildingsson, R., Jordan, A., Massey, E., Monni, S., Stripple, J., van Asselt, H. (2010) Navigating the dilemmas of Climate Policy in Europe. Evidence from Policy Evaluation Studies. Climatic Change 101:3-4, 427-445, doi: 10.1007/s10584-009-9682-3]. Huitema, D., Jordan A, Massey, E., Rayner, T., Van Asselt, H., Haug., Hildingsson, R., Monni, S., Stripple, J. (2011) The evaluation of climate policy: theory and emerging practice in Europe. Policy Sciences, 44:2, 179-198 Berkhout, F., C. Haug, T. Rayner, H. van Asselt, R. Hildingsson, D. Huitema, A Jordan, S. Monni, and J. Stripple. (2010). ‘How do climate policies work? Dilemmas in European climate governance.’ In Making Climate Change Work for Us: European Perspectives on Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies, edited by M. Hulme and H. Neufeldt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Some of that also ended up in the book: Jordan, A., Huitema, D., van Asselt, H., Rayner, T. and Berkhout, F. (Eds.), Climate Change Policy in the European Union: Confronting the Dilemmas of Adaptation and Mitigation? Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. *Claire Dupont:* Dear Raul, A good start might be Huitema, Jordan, Massey et al. 2011 "The evaluation of climate policy: theory and emerging practice in Europe" *Policy Sciences, *vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 179-198. From there I am sure you will find some other references also! Hope that helps. Best, Claire *Syma Ebbin* Hi Raul- I'm not sure this is what you are looking for but I organized a conference a year ago on climate change adaptation policy and law (with specific focus on coastal Connecticut). Many of the articles in the issue propose and evaluate different policy/legal strategies for adaptation. The peer reviewed papers were compiled in a special issue of the Sea Grant Law and Policy journal (which may have other articles that hit your nail on the head). the issue with our conference proceedings can be found: http://nsglc.olemiss.edu/SGLPJ/vol5No1/vol5no1.pdf Another potential source might be the IHDP project publications associated with IDGEC (Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change). I was the former exec officer of this project and we compiled relevant pubs that focused on carbon mgt -- on of our flagship themes. Oran Young was the project lead and his pub record would probably provide other resources. Good luck! Syma *Susi Moser* Raul - Maybe the angle to take is from the evaluation side. There is a TON of work on evaluation of programs and policies, in the development, risk reduction and other fields. It's likely overwhelming when you start digging into this. But the way people think about evaluation may be useful to then transfer to climate policy. And that is a rather broad term and may not be useful in your search. Mitigation - which type? Adaptation - again in which context? The book I just recently announced, Successful Adaptation to Climate Change, gets at the evaluation question in that context. There are LinkedIn groups focused on evaluation, you might want to check out as it leads you to further studies, websites, journals that are all about that. Also, in 2005 or 2006 Adger and others published a book on Fairness and adaptation. That book included a whole bunch of contributions that laid out principles on that element of evaluation - fairness in policy/decision * processes *and fairness in *outcomes*. Anyway, it may help sharpen your thinking for whatever context you may want to apply this to. Best, Susi _____________________________________________________________________ Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega Assistant Professor, Public Administration Division CIDE, AC. (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, A.C) Region Centro Circuito Tecnopolo Norte S/N, Col. Hacienda Nueva Aguascalientes, Ags. 20313, Mexico Tel. (+52-449) 994-5150 x 5196 Cel. 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