Exploring the pathways: Regulatory experiments for Sustainable Development - An interdisciplinary approach

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations provide normative orientation for many national and regional governments as well as actors from industry and other parts of the civil society. There is growing consensus that the corresponding transformation processes needed - e.g. in the field of production and consumption patterns (SDG 12) - have to be fostered by a corresponding institutional framework. Properly designed regulatory experiments that generate a learning system for all actors involved may be an important building block. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, we develop an overview of the various terminologies for regulatory experimentation currently discussed in the social sciences, derive common criteria for regulatory experimentation in reflexive governance structures and conclude in presenting a conceptual framework for analysing empirical studies of regulatory experiments.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ifh Working Paper ; No. 22/2019

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Regulation ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Environmental Economics: Government Policy
• Subject: Regulation ; Regulatory Experimenting ; Sustainable Development ; Reflexive Governance ; Regulatory Learning

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bauknecht, Dierk ; Bischoff, Thore ; Bizer, Kilian ; Heyen, Dirk Arne ; Führ, Martin ; Gailhofer, Peter ; Proeger, Till ; von der Leyen, Kaja
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Volkswirtschaftliches Institut für Mittelstand und Handwerk an der Universität Göttingen (ifh)
• (where): Göttingen
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/208382
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET