学术沙龙No.53

能源、气候与发展系列讲座之三

地方政府、政策能力和可持续性过渡

—新疆、上海、广东风能发展政策的研究

Local States, Policy Capacity and the Sustainability Transition:

A Study of Policies for Wind Energy Development

—in Xinjiang, Shanghai and Guangdong

时      间： 2009年10月26日（星期一） 15：00-16：30 PM

地      点： 清华大学公管学院6楼609会议室

主  讲  人： Daphne Ngar-yin Mah   香港大学嘉道理学院高级研究员

主  持  人： Elizabeth J. Wilson 美国明尼苏达大学助理教授、CIDEG访问学者

主讲人简介：

    Ms Daphne Ngar-yin Mah is a senior research associate of The Kadoorie Institute at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She is also a PhD candidate at HKU. She was awarded the Chevening Scholarship in 1999 and holds an MSc in Environmental Management from the University of Nottingham in the UK.Daphne’s research interests include environmental governance, sustainability issues, comparative environmental policy processes, renewable energy, and China environmental studies.

内容简介：

    Wind energy policy in China has undergone rapid changes in recent years in the country’s pursuit of sustainable development. However, although wind energy is capable of making a significant contribution to the achievement of sustainable development for China, it has yet to reach its full potential. The gaps in current knowledge about how and why public policies fail to facilitate the achievement of sustainability remain large.

This study is about governance for sustainable development in the context of wind energy policy in China. In an attempt to bridge the knowledge gap, this study proposes a conceptual framework that adopts a policy capacity approach to understanding the sustainability transition process. Policy capacity is defined in this study as the ability to identify, assimilate and utilise resources both inside and outside the formal state apparatus to facilitate the activities in the policy-making process. The conceptual framework, which comprises of three building blocks – context, process and outcome – is to provide an analytical structure to map out the actual process of policy capacity building, and to analyse deviations and explains for the gap between the normative perspectives and the empirical evidence of China.