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offsetting of habitat loss, remained absent in practice. As the subject of
controversy when the oil and gas industry protested the debits assigned to
them based on the modelled cost calculations, as also when it resigned
from the exchange’s governance board, questions of finance were used to
delegitimate the whole exercise.
Wolf articulates accountability relations as a hollow performance in his
case, where practices of legitimation along the four registers serve to perpetuate a crisis of accountability. He emphasises that what remains missing
is sanction, an imposition of requirements that would drive demand for
offsets, even when the calculation and market infrastructure are put in
place. These latter developments represent the innovation of mechanisms
that can be used to routinise and normalise accountability if society manifests the political economic will to demand a sustainable energy transition
that must necessarily support sage-grouse as well. Thus, accountability
analysis enables a clear account of what remains lacking to render this
energy transition case sustainable.
referenCes
Fox, J. (2018). The political construction of accountability keywords. IDS Bulletin,
49(2), 65–80.
Kramarz, T., & Park, S. (2017). Introduction: The politics of environmental
accountability. Review of Policy Research, 34(1), 1–4.
Lockwood, M., Kuzemko, C., Mitchell, C., & Hoggett, R. (2017). Historical
institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions: A research
agenda. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 35(2), 312–333.
Swyngedouw, E. (2010). Apocalypse forever? Post-political populism and the
spectre of climate change. Theory, Culture & Society, 27, 213–232.
9 PRACTICES OF LEGITIMATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY CRISES…
offsetting of habitat loss, remained absent in practice. As the subject of
controversy when the oil and gas industry protested the debits assigned to
them based on the modelled cost calculations, as also when it resigned
from the exchange’s governance board, questions of finance were used to
delegitimate the whole exercise.
Wolf articulates accountability relations as a hollow performance in his
case, where practices of legitimation along the four registers serve to perpetuate a crisis of accountability. He emphasises that what remains missing
is sanction, an imposition of requirements that would drive demand for
offsets, even when the calculation and market infrastructure are put in
place. These latter developments represent the innovation of mechanisms
that can be used to routinise and normalise accountability if society manifests the political economic will to demand a sustainable energy transition
that must necessarily support sage-grouse as well. Thus, accountability
analysis enables a clear account of what remains lacking to render this
energy transition case sustainable.
referenCes
Fox, J. (2018). The political construction of accountability keywords. IDS Bulletin,
49(2), 65–80.
Kramarz, T., & Park, S. (2017). Introduction: The politics of environmental
accountability. Review of Policy Research, 34(1), 1–4.
Lockwood, M., Kuzemko, C., Mitchell, C., & Hoggett, R. (2017). Historical
institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions: A research
agenda. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 35(2), 312–333.
Swyngedouw, E. (2010). Apocalypse forever? Post-political populism and the
spectre of climate change. Theory, Culture & Society, 27, 213–232.
9 PRACTICES OF LEGITIMATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY CRISES…