This D.Phil. thesis is an international comparative study looking at the development and implementation stages of policies tasked to reduce emissions from transport. The substance of policy is all too often the primary focus of research, leaving the settings in which these policies are developed and implemented relatively underexplored. Examining the relationships and interplay that exists between departments responsible for climate change and transport at the sub-national (state) level and those with their local and national counterparts, this research tries to unpick the organisational intricacies that may act as barriers to delivery. State governments have become a promising source of action to reduce emissions from other sectors for which they have legislative responsibility; however, the private road transport sector remains a challenge. This research examines the barriers preventing such progress and whether the lack of collaboration between departments and across levels of government are responsible in part for these challenges. Taking a specific policy intervention designed to reduce transport-related emissions from four case study governments (Bavaria, California, Scotland and South Australia) this research is about organisational structures of government and policy processes. The main hypothesis of the research is that conventional environmental/climate change- and transport-policymaking practices are incompatible – and that this incompatibility is hampered by organisational structures of government. Together these factors render implementation of policies to reduce the climate impact of transport difficult. The hypothesis is guided by four research themes – scale, scope, leadership and process. Each of these themes has a distinct yet important part to play in understanding and comparing the case study contexts, in terms of the cross-departmental and cross-level interactions occurring within each of the sub-national governments. Each of the subject case study governments have been chosen since they are self-determined ‘leaders’ on climate change. This research serves to highlight some of the governance issues that need to be overcome or removed for such positive political intent to be realised. It posits that without successfully linking frameworks and interested stakeholders in the process, tangible emissions reductions will be difficult to achieve. The main objective of the research is to investigate the frameworks, interplay and dynamics at the sub-national level of government across departments and between levels of government. The relationship and collaboration with industry is also examined as a supplementary consideration. The second objective is to look at how and whether climate change policy can be more closely integrated with transport policy and the barriers to this integration. This investigation is underpinned by cross-disciplinary governance theory, as well as notions from socio-political governance and applies the concept of institutional interplay in this context between levels of government. It develops the concept of sub-national governance which argues that relationships between levels are distinct and non-hierarchical in terms of policy development and implementation.

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Comment sont utilisés et appropriés les coûts externes environnementaux et quels sont leurs enjeux dans le processus décisionnel d’un projet d’infrastructure de transport ? A travers l’histoire du projet ferroviaire mixte transalpin Lyon Turin, cette thèse interroge les usages et les appropriations de la monétarisation des nuisances environnementales. Dans le déroulement non linéaire du projet (1989-2010), nous soulignerons les usages techniques des mesures monétaires insérées dans un vaste instrument d’évaluation, le calcul économique public, pour aborder ses appropriations politiques et sociales. Par ses transformations puis l’émergence d’une question alpine du transport suite à l’accident du tunnel du Mont-Blanc et sa lecture sous le registre des risques, le Lyon Turin se précise et gagne en en visibilité publique. Malgré sa complexité, son coût et sa faible rentabilité, il devient le symbole d’une nouvelle politique d’aménagement durable des transports. Pourtant, les valeurs attribuées aux coûts externes environnementaux suite aux groupes Boiteux ne parviennent pas à modifier les résultats des évaluations. Dans le cadre de l’écorégion alpine, le projet offre une solution politique de sortie de crise et interroge la pertinence du calcul économique pour mesurer l’intérêt collectif du projet. L’instrument, au cœur des enjeux sur la réalisation du projet, est constamment réinvesti dans le processus de négociation et de décision. Les controverses sur la réalisation du projet donnent à voir les enjeux d’une vie de projet, des calculs de rentabilité et laissent percevoir l’intérêt des protagonistes pour les coûts externes environnementaux comme instrument d’action publique. / How are used and appropriated the environmental external costs and which are their stakes in the decision-making process of a transport infrastructure project? Through the story of the railway project transalpine Lyon Turin, this thesis questions about the uses and the appropriations of the valuation of the environmental nuisances. In the nonlinear unfolding of the project (1989-2010), we will reveal the technical uses of the monetary valuations inserted into a wide instrument of evaluation, the public economic calculation, to deal with its political and social appropriations. By its transformations and the emergence of an alpine question of transport following the accident in the tunnel of Mont Blanc and its reading under risk register, Lyon Turin gains in precision and in public visibility. In spite of its complexity, its cost and weak profitability, it becomes the symbol of a new sustainable transport policy. Yet, the values allotted to the environmental external costs following the Boiteux groups do not manage to modify the results of the evaluations. Within the framework of the alpine area, the project offers a political solution to crisis and questions the relevance of economic calculation to measure the collective interest of the project. The instrument, in the heart of the issues on the realization of the project, is constantly reinvested in the process of negotiation and decision. The controversies on the realization of the project give to see the issues of a project life, cost-benefit analyses and let charge the interest of the protagonists for environmental external costs as an instrument of public action.