Refining reflexive environmental law by nature and nurture : autonomy, accountability, and adjustability

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dc.contributor.authorROSS, Violet
dc.contributor.authorDE ALMEIDA, Lucila
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-18T13:40:40Z
dc.date.available2024-12-18T13:40:40Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionPublished online: 15 April 2024en
dc.description.abstractReflexive environmental law (REL) enables an understanding of how law builds potential for private company reflexivity. Reflexivity helps to avoid lock-in, and enhances learning and self-organization to resolve complex sustainability challenges. Thus far, REL theory has excluded traditional command-and-control regulation as a form of REL. This limits the potential of REL to understand how legislation can drive reflexivity and create more effective governance. Our framework expands the definition of REL and sets out six types of regulatory instrument found in legislation that may, or may not, constitute forms of REL. The framework comprises three reflexive drivers – autonomy, accountability, and adjustability – and, under these, eleven REL techniques. Through examples taken from European environmental legislation, we explain the drivers’ relationship with different regulatory instruments. This taxonomy empowers regulators and scholars to understand both the reflexive potential of regulatory instruments and the possibility to make instruments more reflexive in specific contexts.en
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dc.identifier.citationTransnational environmental law, 2024, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 428-452en
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S2047102524000037
dc.identifier.endpage452en
dc.identifier.issn2047-1025
dc.identifier.issn2047-1033
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dc.identifier.startpage428en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/77666
dc.identifier.volume13en
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dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofTransnational environmental lawen
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Florence School of Regulation]en
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Energy Union Law]en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International*
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dc.titleRefining reflexive environmental law by nature and nurture : autonomy, accountability, and adjustabilityen
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