期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
卷 31, 期 3, 页码 365-385出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2021.1915020
关键词
Policy narratives; plastics; circular economy; narrative policy framework; strategic construction; European Commission
资金
- Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra) as part of the Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways (STEPS) research programme
- EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme Realising Innovation in Transitions for Decarbonisation (REINVENT) [730053]
An analysis of European plastics governance policy narratives reveals that resource inefficiency and pollution narratives are most prominent, with the circular economy serving as a policy solution cutting across different narratives. However, there are deeper ideological divisions over the exact definition of the circular economy and the different implications it has for plastics governance.
The European Union (EU) aspires to be an important global agenda-setter on how to treat and regulate the growing plastics problem. We present an analysis of the plastic policy narratives shaping European plastics governance, in particular through the European Commission's Plastics Strategy. Our aim is to first uncover the policy narratives at play, and then examine how actors make use of those narratives through strategic construction. Based on interviews with key stakeholders and document analysis, we identify four narratives: fossil feedstock dependency, resource inefficiency, pollution, and toxicity. We find that the resource inefficiency and pollution narratives figure most prominently in European plastics governance, and that the circular economy is being advanced as a policy solution that cuts across the different narratives. However, surface agreement on the need for 'circularity' hides deeper-lying ideological divisions over what exactly the circular economy means and the different directions this implies for plastics governance.
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