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The complex governance of protected areas: Insights from geoheritage and geopark management in China 保护区的复杂治理：中国地质遗产和地质公园管理的启示

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2118

Andi Zhuang, Arie Stoffelen, Erik Meijles, Peter Groote

{"title":"The complex governance of protected areas: Insights from geoheritage and geopark management in China","authors":"Andi Zhuang, Arie Stoffelen, Erik Meijles, Peter Groote","doi":"10.1002/eet.2118","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2118","url":null,"abstract":"Geoparks aim to conserve areas of geological significance and achieve sustainable endogenous regional development via geotourism. The management of geoparks requires the involvement of all relevant stakeholders and authorities. However, the strategies when establishing geoparks are often based on the visions of scientists and policymakers. Other stakeholders, such as local residents, often have relatively limited opportunities to become involved in the identification and communication of geoheritage values. Yet, across different social contexts, people's attitudes toward heritage may manifest differently. This adds to the complexity of building cohesive partnerships among stakeholders with the common goal of sustainable development. With a qualitative study of Zhangjiajie UNESCO Global Geopark in China, which has attracted considerable attention due to the conflicts between tourism development and heritage conservation, we aim to understand how the concept of geoheritage is institutionalized in the management of the geopark. Data were collected through interviews with government officials at different levels and various local tourism practitioners, supplemented by a policy document analysis. Results show that geoheritage management in Zhangjiajie Geopark lacked dynamism and inclusivity. The reason was the presence of dissonant understandings among various authorities regarding what constitutes geoheritage. These dissonant understandings were not negotiated strategically because of the embedding of the geopark in a highly convoluted multi-level governance system related to natural resource management and tourism. The findings underscore that geoheritage research should shift away from an objectivist understanding of geoheritage. Perceiving geoheritage as a power-loaded construct transforms our comprehension of geopark management dynamics.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 6","pages":"679-690"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2118","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141343524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Modes of governance for sustainability transitions: Conceptual definitions 可持续性转型的治理模式：概念定义

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-06-07 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2115

Flavia Massuga, Sérgio Luis Dias Doliveira, Marli Kuasoski, Simone Soares Mangoni

{"title":"Modes of governance for sustainability transitions: Conceptual definitions","authors":"Flavia Massuga, Sérgio Luis Dias Doliveira, Marli Kuasoski, Simone Soares Mangoni","doi":"10.1002/eet.2115","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2115","url":null,"abstract":"The unsustainability of production and consumption patterns and the socio-technical systems in the energy, mobility, water, and solid waste sectors highlights the need for sustainability transitions. However, the transition management perspective indicates that these transformations cannot be managed in the traditional hierarchical sense. Therefore, new modes of governance are required to deal with the complexity and nature of sustainability issues. This study seeks to elucidate these matters by bringing the literature on sustainability transitions, transition management, and governance modes closer to each other, generating a better understanding of governance in transitions. In addition to the theoretical discussion on the linked concepts, this study also contributes by presenting and characterizing five modes of governance that can facilitate the paths to transformation. They are participatory, collaborative, multilevel, smart, and network governance. These modes of governance differ according to the actors involved and the nature of their interactions and encompass different political processes, institutional structures, and policy content. The assumption is that the modes of governance addressed, which distance themselves from conventional approaches based on top-down control, can favor transition initiatives that promote transformative processes toward a more resilient and sustainable society. However, the inherent embeddedness of the public service is recognized, which requires transitions in governance itself through institutional adaptations and changes in the role of actors and public officials.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 6","pages":"663-678"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141373755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Revisiting the success of co-management in forest protected areas of Bangladesh: Untangling the interplay of power, participation, and community empowerment

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-05-29 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2114

Mohammed Abdul Baten

{"title":"Revisiting the success of co-management in forest protected areas of Bangladesh: Untangling the interplay of power, participation, and community empowerment","authors":"Mohammed Abdul Baten","doi":"10.1002/eet.2114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2114","url":null,"abstract":"This narrative review critically assesses the implementation and purported success of co-management in forest management in Bangladesh. Co-management has gained global popularity, celebrated for its participatory approach to natural resource conflict resolution, yet critiqued for potential design flaws, susceptibility to elite capture, and perpetuating power imbalances in predominantly top-down management cultures. Despite two decades of application and reports of positive outcomes in managing forest protected areas of Bangladesh, concerns persist regarding the authenticity of its success and sustainability, particularly in terms of power dynamics and effective community participation in decision-making processes. The review delves into these aspects, revealing instances where successes might be superficial, overlooking the underlying issues of power disparity among stakeholders. It highlights the crucial role of enhancing social capital within co-management frameworks to foster institutionalization and sustainability. Recommendations include advancing robust collaboration and communication, alongside the adoption of adaptive management practices to navigate the complex interplay of natural, social, and institutional challenges.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 6","pages":"649-662"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142764490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Correction to ‘Communication and urban air quality governance in Germany: Discursive framing by selected national environmental NGOs and the Automotive Industry Association (VDA) and its potential impacts’ 更正 "德国的交流与城市空气质量治理：部分国家非政府环保组织和汽车工业协会（VDA）的话语框架及其潜在影响

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2107

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IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-04-23 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2106

Erica Melloni, Federico Cuomo, Giancarlo Vecchi

{"title":"Context-related mechanisms of policy sustainability: Governance reform of the protected areas in Lombardy","authors":"Erica Melloni, Federico Cuomo, Giancarlo Vecchi","doi":"10.1002/eet.2106","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2106","url":null,"abstract":"The management of protected areas has been recognised as a particularly complex policy field, with many interacting actors and frequent conflicts. How policies survive potential or actual conflict is a matter of policy sustainability; policy manipulation can modify the roles and perceptions of policy actors to achieve outcomes closer to the desired ones—at least, desired by the enacting coalitions. The article investigates the governance reform of protected areas in Lombardy, Italy, focusing on the dynamics of policy sustainability amidst conflict and opposition. It examines how the Lombardy Region's 2016 reform aimed to consolidate the management of protected areas under the umbrella of regional park authorities. Despite the reform's ultimate goals appeared unquestioned, it encountered significant resistance from local administrations. The analysis focused on the context features (pre-existence of local cooperation agreements, and salience of the protected area), and mechanisms (reputation, and loss aversion) in place at local level. Their combination appears able to explain the varied outcomes of the reform, ranging from failure to partial success.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 6","pages":"637-648"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140667266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Governing sustainable corridor development: A case study of the Gilimanuk–Denpasar–Padang Bai corridor in Indonesia 管理走廊的可持续发展：印度尼西亚吉里马努克-登巴萨-巴当拜走廊案例研究

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2104

Gitasanti Djais, Jan Fransen, Joop Koppenjan

{"title":"Governing sustainable corridor development: A case study of the Gilimanuk–Denpasar–Padang Bai corridor in Indonesia","authors":"Gitasanti Djais, Jan Fransen, Joop Koppenjan","doi":"10.1002/eet.2104","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2104","url":null,"abstract":"In regional planning, and more specifically transport corridor development, sustainability is often overshadowed by economic ambitions and prospects. This contribution explores how the governance of corridor development processes can enhance sustainability. It presents findings from the planning process for the Gilimanuk–Denpasar–Padang Bai (GDP) Corridor in Bali, Indonesia. The analysis is guided by a theoretical framework that builds on literature on regional development, corridor development, sustainability and governance. Using process tracing, the analysis investigates the influence of five governance factors on the process of sustainable corridor development and its outcomes, notably the presence of a sustainability vision, the governance mode, the actor constellation, the available knowledge, and the institutional setting. Whereas literature on sustainable corridors suggests that governance structures and corridor management are needed, this contribution analysis how and under what conditions these structures in practice contribute to sustainable outcomes. The findings show how the original economic focus of the corridor gradually evolved into a more sustainable one, although not all potentials were realized. These illustrate that sustainable corridors require governance of interaction processes, involving a dynamic and contextualized constellation of governance factors, that co-evolves during the planning process. Despite that the GDP corridor gradually developed into a more sustainable direction, the presence of a sustainability rather than an economic focus from the onset would have increased the potentials of realizing sustainability ambitions.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 6","pages":"623-636"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140718040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Managers of complex change? How United Nations treaty secretariats jointly govern institutional interplay in global environmental governance 复杂变化的管理者？联合国条约秘书处如何共同管理全球环境治理中的机构相互作用

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2105

Joshua Philipp Elsässer

{"title":"Managers of complex change? How United Nations treaty secretariats jointly govern institutional interplay in global environmental governance","authors":"Joshua Philipp Elsässer","doi":"10.1002/eet.2105","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2105","url":null,"abstract":"Research on international bureaucracies, such as treaty secretariats, has predominantly focused on broadening our understanding of their role, function, and influence within their respective regulatory domains. However, the potential for treaty secretariats to manage situations of institutional overlap by coordinating with other agencies across policy areas has remained understudied. This article offers new empirical and theoretical insights for studying collective agency and coordination mechanisms in instances of institutional interaction within hybrid regime complexes. Specifically, it investigates how the treaty secretariats of the Rio Conventions under the United Nations employ joint interplay management as a means to improve institutional coherence within the climate change, biodiversity loss, and desertification nexus. Collectively, the public agencies aim to advance knowledge and discourse, influence norm-building processes and regulation, or build capacity and support the joint implementation of policy objectives addressing the interlinked environmental problems. They do this by interacting with various actors across governance levels, including national governments, transnational initiatives, private actors, or civil society. By tracing the process linking joint activities with effects of such interactions, this qualitative case study makes a conceptual contribution by extrapolating a mechanistic theory for joint interplay management. The article demonstrates that treaty secretariats have to contend with challenges of resource allocation, diverging mandates, leadership priorities, and the degree of politicization and timing which frequently intervene stages of strategizing and executing joint activities. The results highlight that joint interplay management can be most impactful when secretariats employ orchestration practices through joint outreach and advocacy to advance coherent institutional responses to interdependent environmental problems.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 6","pages":"610-622"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evaluating offsetting as a component of biodiversity governance 将补偿作为生物多样性治理的一个组成部分进行评估

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2103

Ritwick Ghosh, Steven Wolf

{"title":"Evaluating offsetting as a component of biodiversity governance","authors":"Ritwick Ghosh, Steven Wolf","doi":"10.1002/eet.2103","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2103","url":null,"abstract":"Biodiversity offsetting is considered to be an innovative policy instrument to balance land use changes with conservation priorities. Although advocates have pushed to establish biodiversity offset markets for over 20 years and critics have contested the social and ecological implications of such policy innovations, in practice, offsetting schemes have been difficult to set up, replicate, and sustain over time. Observing the underperformance of biodiversity offsetting, we argue that a critical analysis is urgently needed. We identify a need to analyze offsetting in relation to other features of biodiversity governance rather than focus on the merits and flaws of offsetting as a standalone policy instrument. Using a set-theoretic model, we consider how different institutional arrangements determine if and when biodiversity offsetting produces positive environmental outcomes. We find that offsetting adds to biodiversity governance only when three thorny challenges are met—muscular enforcement of environmental regulations, rigorous impact management aligned with the mitigation hierarchy, and the existence of evidence-based and cost-effective platforms for offsetting. Short of these conditions, outcomes are either uncertain or outright harmful to biodiversity. Reflecting more broadly on the prospects of institutionalizing offsetting mechanisms for protecting biodiversity, we conclude a need to recenter attention toward the supportive role of the state in facilitating effective policy innovations.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 6","pages":"598-609"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140370487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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“Us versus them” mentalities in co-managing a Natura 2000 forest: Narratives, identities, and a culture of conflict 共同管理 Natura 2000 森林中的 "我们与他们 "心态：叙事、身份和冲突文化

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2102

Larissa Koch

{"title":"“Us versus them” mentalities in co-managing a Natura 2000 forest: Narratives, identities, and a culture of conflict","authors":"Larissa Koch","doi":"10.1002/eet.2102","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2102","url":null,"abstract":"Multistakeholder co-management is no blueprint for smooth and accepted environmental policy implementation. Parallel processes of cooperation and conflict rather shape co-managing processes, which is the focus of this article. Combining the analysis of narratives, identities, and relational structure through means of social network analysis builds the conceptual and methodological foundation for this case study to explore a perpetual conflict between actors involved in co-designing the management plans for a local Natura 2000 forest. Two opposing narratives are identified as competing over power and competency in discussions about the management plans for the Natura 2000 forest. Negative characterization frames and antagonizing with the other side fuels an “us versus them” mentality among the actors in the co-management process and over time, a culture of conflict has become institutionalized. Interactions between the actors from the case study seemingly build on a complex, iterative pattern of disputes that is barely breakable and reversible into cooperative attitudes. Surprisingly, this culture of conflict does not resonate with the relational structure between actors in the case study as descriptive social network analysis shows. This case represents an intriguing puzzle pointing to an incongruence between relational and discursive mechanisms underlying cooperation-conflict dynamics in multistakeholder co-management, which is relevant for future examinations of cooperation and conflict in social network analyses. The results are discussed in light of power dynamics and concluded with an outlook to conflict research.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 6","pages":"582-597"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140224881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Towards sustainable urban transport—Political agenda formation and policy windows in Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm 实现可持续城市交通--赫尔辛基、奥斯陆和斯德哥尔摩的政治议程制定和政策窗口

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2100

Linda E. Karjalainen

{"title":"Towards sustainable urban transport—Political agenda formation and policy windows in Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm","authors":"Linda E. Karjalainen","doi":"10.1002/eet.2100","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2100","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the development of urban transport political agendas in three Nordic capital cities, Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm, that strive towards urban sustainability. Utilising the Multiple Streams framework as a basis for analysis, an overview of local problems, policy solutions, and politics that have characterised transport systems and the related policy development processes over time is constructed. The attention is then drawn towards the points in time where the streams connect, and policy windows occur, to detect formative changes and their enablers towards sustainability. The data consists of 18 semi-structured expert interviews, conducted amongst municipal policymakers and planners. The results reveal several policy windows that have transformed the local transport systems towards sustainability and an increasingly people-oriented approach. The relevance of global climate change awareness, international planning trends for liveability and cycling, public pressure, individual political decisions, and establishment of modal hierarchy is evident across the case cities, while car traffic regulation is politically challenging and addressed through very different means at very different times. The findings of this paper outline diverse ways for advancing sustainability in local policy development but also detect methods for politically halting the process.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 6","pages":"568-581"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140167664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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