Succeeding and failing in Australian environment policy / Kathleen Mackie with Stephen Saunders
- Bib ID:
- 7730110
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mackie, Kathleen, author
- Description:
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- [O'Connor, Australian Capital Territory] : Brou Lake Publishing, 2018
- ©2018
- vii, 134 pages : illustrations, colour portraits ; 26 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780646982342 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Australia's environment is suffering. Land clearing and species losses erode choices for following generations. We're failing to reduce emissions. We've failed to protect our Murray-Darling lifeline. This book captures insights and achievements of federal environment policy officials. Expecting to fail, they angled for hard-fought policy successes. Succeeding and Failing in Australian Environment Policy reconsiders the Home Insulation debacle and our failure on Population Strategy. Policymakers and environmentalists can absorb its lessons, to fight the coming battles over climate change, and our special landscapes and species. Dr Kathleen Mackie has seen the good and bad in environment policymaking. She implemented the Working on Country program for Indigenous rangers. She was brought in towards the end of Home Insulation, to rebuild trust with a minister frustrated by poor advice. These experiences triggered her PhD research. Up to 2009, she was Senior Executive in the federal Environment Department. She holds a PhD (UNSW) and MA (Toronto). During 2017, she was CEO of Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa, the Martu organisation of the WA Pilbara. There she could closely observe the kernel of policy success - understand and meet the needs of policy subjects. For indigenous landowners, that need was being valued as land managers and receiving award wages. Why do few environment policies succeed? How do you judge success? Most academics investigate such questions at arm's length. Dr Mackie interviewed 51 environment policy officials. They could usually foretell which policies were going to thrive. Keys to success were an understanding of who has 'skin in the game', massaging environment policy objectives for economic wins, and being armed with evidence. Unwittingly, the insiders revealed their skilful 'agency' was critical to policy wins. Case studies of fuel quality standards and indigenous land management show officials actively getting good policies across the line. Where 'agency' is weak, the risk of failure intensifies, as happened in Home Insulation and Population Strategy.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references.
- NLApp76335
- Subject:
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- Home Insulation Program (Australia)
- Environmental policy -- Australia
- Energy policy -- Australia
- Political planning -- Australia
- Politics & government
- Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
- Australia -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- Australia -- Environmental conditions
- Australia -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Saunders, Stephen, author
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2018
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