Negotiating and engaging with environmental public policy at different scales

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Much like computing, public policy is ubiquitous. It influences what we can do; where, when, and how we can pursue available services or activities; and who is involved along the way. The wide reach of public policy has inspired members of the HCI community to host public policy forums, write public policy papers, and call for increased engagement with the actors and governance tools that shape public policy (Lazar et al., 2016). These latter calls to engage with policy have extended to the environmental sphere (Goodman, 2009; Håkansson & Sengers, 2014, Knowles et al., 2014; Silberman et al., 2014) and have opened up several exciting questions for the HCI community to consider. These questions include: With which environmental public policies should we engage? How should we engage with those policies? For what aims, and at what scales, should we engage with them? Few clear answers have been proposed to these questions, perhaps because few clear answers exist. Environmental public policy (EPP) is a broad domain to navigate, and opportunities for the HCI community to engage with EPPs might appear limited. However, many EPPs speak directly to issues addressed by, or of interest to, the HCI community, and a concrete discussion of the aforementioned questions seems timely.

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