Governing external cost of shipping in emission control areas: An instrumentation approach

• Daria Gritsenko ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Turku

     University of Turku

     Turku, Finlandia

     
• Localización: Maritime Transport'14 / coord. por Francisco Javier Martínez de Osés, Marcella Castells Sanabra, 2014, ISBN 978-84-9880-483-6, págs. 632-647
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Emission control areas (ECAs) are designed as an instrument to address external costs from shipping. Though ECAs have been investigated in a versatile manner by scholars of economics, management and policy studies, rather less attention has been paid to the impacts of existing complex multi-level and polycentric institutional environments in which ECAs are introduced. Yet, it shall be taken into account that shipping companies’ decisions to improve their safety and environmental performance can be both enhanced and constrained by the ‘rules of the game’ embedded within emerging institutional frameworks. Drawing upon the instrumentation approach, which conceptualizes governance instruments as policy implementation choices, the paper investigates the case of the Baltic ECA. Origin, content and power implications of technical instruments associated with the goal of enhanced environmental protection of the Baltic Sea are analyzed to understand which relations between the actors involved into the governance process they imply. This analysis allows assessing how the new instrument of ECAs can play itself out in terms of externalities governance. The paper concludes with a discussion on the role of ECAs as a potential enabling environment for more environmentally-friendly shipping.