Cultural Legitimacy and Regulatory Transitions for Climate Change: A Discursive Framework
International climate change regulation poses some fundamental legitimacy issues. This is principally because the spatial and temporal challenges thrown up by rising global temperature do not lend themselves
to easy regulation for several reasons.1 Firstly, although atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases around the globe is uniform, the impact of such concentration is not identical across the world.2 Consequently, different regions around the world will not experience the same temperature increase and the usual references to averages in reports mask fact that some places will suffer greater increases.
Because of its tremendous temporal and spatial scope, climate change poses profound regulatory issues. Significant transboundary effects and spatially differentiated effects make it highly desirable that international regulatory mechanisms are utilised in order to arrive at effective mitigation and adaptation solutions. Yet, the different spaces that states occupy in terms of causation and effect makes agreement on what must be regulated through international mechanisms and indeed how to regulate such subject matter. Consequently, this paper proposes that legitimacy needs to be considered one of the core concerns of international climate change regulation and governance. The aim of this paper is to clarify the role of the concept of legitimacy in international climate change regulation, and to set forth a specific discursive approach aimed at identifying legitimacy-enhancing design features for internationally regulating climate change.
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| Quelle: | Issue 3/2011 (Dezember 2011) | |
| Seiten: | 8 | |
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| Autor: | Thoko Kaime  | |
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