Transcript Incrementalism vs Punctuated Equilibrium

Evolution
Punctuated
Equilibrium
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Local
Market
Win win
Integration of
science and
policy
• What are some of the forces leading to
path dependence?
High Exit Costs
Aqueducts
Policy Image
• Professionalization
Benefit and Risk Spreading
• While the California
State Water
Project's main
purpose is to store
and transport water,
many of its facilities
were designed with
recreation in mind.
Tent and RV
camping, boating,
fishing, swimming,
waterskiing,
horseback riding,
picnicking, hiking,
photography, and
many other activities
are available at
DWR facilities.
High Exit Costs
• Courts as Battlefields in Climate Fights,
New York Times January 26, 2010
• Kivalina alleged in its complaint that the
industry conspired “to suppress the
awareness of the link” between emissions
and climate change through “front groups,
fake citizens organizations and bogus
scientific bodies.”
S.E.C. Adds Climate
Risk to Disclosure List
• , New York Times, Jan 28, 2010
Pentagon to rank global warming as destabilising
force
S.E.C. Adds Climate Risk to
Disclosure List
• “The S.E.C., on a party-line 3-2 vote, issued
“interpretive guidance” to help companies decide
when and whether to disclose matters related to
climate change. The commission said that
companies could be helped or hurt by climaterelated lawsuits, business opportunities or
legislation and should promptly disclose such
potential impacts. Banks or insurance
companies that invest in coastal property that
could be affected by storms or rising seas, for
example, should disclose such risks, the agency
said.” New York Times 1/28/10