Ylva Uggla – författare

Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing problems facing society . This book focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental regulation: How are activities regulated in a fragmented world - a world of nation states, regulators, domestic and international law and political contests - and one in which a range of actors, such as governments, corporations and NGOs act in order to influence regulations in specific policy areas? How are complex and trans-boundary environmental issues managed? What role does expert knowledge play in regulating this kind of issues? What give rules authority? In short, how do actors try to render an issue governable? Drawing on regulation theory, discourse theory and science and technology studies, and employing original research, the authors analyse the regulation of four kinds of complex and trans-boundary environmental issues: oil protection in the Baltic Sea, mobile phones and radiation protection, climate change adaptation and genetically modified crops. The outcomes include insights for policymakers, regulators and researchers into how dominant frames are constructed, legitimate actors are configured and authority is established. This in turn exposes the conditions for, and possibility of, developing regulation, making authoritative rules and shaping relevant knowledge in order to govern complex environmental risks.

Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing problems facing society . This book focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental regulation: How are activities regulated in a fragmented world - a world of nation states, regulators, domestic and international law and political contests - and one in which a range of actors, such as governments, corporations and NGOs act in order to influence regulations in specific policy areas? How are complex and trans-boundary environmental issues managed? What role does expert knowledge play in regulating this kind of issues? What give rules authority? In short, how do actors try to render an issue governable? Drawing on regulation theory, discourse theory and science and technology studies, and employing original research, the authors analyse the regulation of four kinds of complex and trans-boundary environmental issues: oil protection in the Baltic Sea, mobile phones and radiation protection, climate change adaptation and genetically modified crops. The outcomes include insights for policymakers, regulators and researchers into how dominant frames are constructed, legitimate actors are configured and authority is established. This in turn exposes the conditions for, and possibility of, developing regulation, making authoritative rules and shaping relevant knowledge in order to govern complex environmental risks.

Det är svårt att undgå budskapet om att miljön är hotad och att vi alla har ansvar för att lösa problemen. I (O)möjliga livsstilar diskuteras olika innebörder av ansvarsförskjutningar, från stat till individ, som skett till följd av pågående individualiserings- och globaliseringsprocesser. Vi uppmanas på olika sätt genom massmedier, informationskampanjer och reklam att ändra våra vardagsliv och inte minst vår konsumtion i miljövänlig riktning. Ofta används i dessa sammanhang begrepp som grön eller miljövänlig livsstil, vilka då huvudsakligen förknippas med individuella val och konsumtion.Boken har en introducerande karaktär och presenterar grundläggande samhällsvetenskapliga begrepp och teorier, men förutsätter inte några förkunskaper om miljöpolitik eller i sociologisk teori. Den lämpar sig för kurser på grundnivå inom olika samhällsvetenskapliga discipliner, samt för studenter på mångvetenskapliga eller naturvetenskapliga utbildningar med intresse för samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv på miljöfrågor. Vår förhoppning är att boken ska bidra till nya insikter och ett vidgat perspektiv på miljö och livsstil som ger inspiration till fortsatt läsning och diskussion.