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Towards Catchment Scale Natural Flood Management: Developing evidence, funding and governance approaches 实现集水区规模的自然洪水管理：开发证据、资金和治理方法

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2101

Jeremy Graham Carter, Andrew Karvonen, Amanda Winter

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Collaboration as a policy instrument in public administration: Evidence from forest policy and governance 作为公共行政政策工具的合作：森林政策与治理的证据

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2099

Therese Bjärstig, Johanna Johansson, Irina Mancheva, Camilla Sandström

{"title":"Collaboration as a policy instrument in public administration: Evidence from forest policy and governance","authors":"Therese Bjärstig, Johanna Johansson, Irina Mancheva, Camilla Sandström","doi":"10.1002/eet.2099","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2099","url":null,"abstract":"In recent decades, collaboration has become a common policy instrument in public administration, both internationally and in Sweden. Inspired by scholarly literature on collaborative governance, the aim of this study is to analyze the crucial role of public administration in the design and implementation of collaborative governance. Drawing on several years of research on Swedish forest policy and governance, our work is based on extensive empirical material, including 88 semi-structured interviews, observations, written comments from open public consultations and actors, enacted policy documents, open public hearings and a survey. Our results confirm that factors related to process design strongly affect the outputs and outcomes of collaboration in public administration. We assert that public officials should meticulously design and adapt the collaborative process during its initiation and progress, according to the policy problem and actors' incentives and motivations to participate. However, despite good intentions by public officials, the overarching priorities and contextual factors governing the policy area must be set by elected decision makers at an early stage to establish democratic accountability and high levels of policy legitimacy and acceptance. A major implication for public administration is that the increasing use of collaborative governance may be highly inefficient if it is difficult for participants to draft shared objectives and provide intended outputs because of low levels of trust, and different interpretations of knowledge and norms. Finally, in contentious policy areas, such as forest policy, political priorities must sometimes be set by elected decision makers rather than through collaborative processes.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 5","pages":"538-549"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140035685","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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The transformative potential of experimentation as an environmental governance approach: The case of the Dutch peatlands 实验作为环境治理方法的变革潜力：荷兰泥炭地案例

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-02-13 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2098

Mandy A. Van Den Ende, Dries L. T. Hegger, Heleen L. P. Mees, Peter P. J. Driessen

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The transformative potential of experimentation as an environmental governance approach: The case of the Dutch peatlands 实验作为环境治理方法的变革潜力：荷兰泥炭地案例

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-02-13 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2098

Mandy A. van den Ende, D. Hegger, Heleen L. P. Mees, P. P. Driessen

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Contextualizing and generalizing drivers and barriers of urban living labs for climate resilience 城市生活实验室气候复原力的驱动因素和障碍的背景化和一般化

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2097

Laura Quadros Aniche, Jurian Edelenbos, Alberto Gianoli, Rochelle Caruso, Marta Irene DeLosRíos-White, Charmae Pyl Wissink-Nercua, Asier Undabeitia, Elena Marie Enseñado, Salem Gharbia

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Conflicting perspectives on ecosystem conservation in a cultivated floodplain: The role of science and the challenge of pluralism in decision-making in Lac Saint-Pierre (Quebec, Canada) 关于开垦的洪泛平原生态系统保护的冲突观点：圣皮埃尔湖（加拿大魁北克）决策中科学的作用和多元化的挑战

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-01-22 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2095

Ann Lévesque, Jean-François Bissonnette, Aaron Vansintjan, Jérôme Dupras

{"title":"Conflicting perspectives on ecosystem conservation in a cultivated floodplain: The role of science and the challenge of pluralism in decision-making in Lac Saint-Pierre (Quebec, Canada)","authors":"Ann Lévesque, Jean-François Bissonnette, Aaron Vansintjan, Jérôme Dupras","doi":"10.1002/eet.2095","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2095","url":null,"abstract":"By generating and explaining facts, science holds an important role in environmental policy decision-making. However, scientific knowledge is often framed as objective and neutral in policy debates, which can be challenged by stakeholders who have a different view of the issue. To counter this situation, we propose a novel scientific approach to analyze problems that are highly contested and seem difficult to resolve, that is, wicked problems. Our study combined post-normal science and environmental justice perspectives to shed light on a wicked problem—the largely unsuccessful efforts to rehabilitate yellow perch stocks in Lac Saint-Pierre (LSP), Quebec, Canada. The combination of these two perspectives allows us to investigate the causes of the decrease of yellow perch stocks and the social and institutional barriers to rehabilitation—which can only be overcome if the injustice perceived by different stakeholders is overcome. Our study presents an approach that addresses uncertainties, integrates various knowledge forms, reassesses decision-making procedures, and highlights inequalities within a specified territory. The research also underlines the importance of the qualitative dimension in the development of knowledge and the need to address equity in the development of environmental policies.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 5","pages":"476-489"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2095","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139551568","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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Framing just transition: The case of sustainable food system transition in Finland 构建公正的过渡：芬兰可持续粮食系统转型案例

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-01-21 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2096

Suvi Huttunen, Riina Tykkyläinen, Minna Kaljonen, Teea Kortetmäki, Ari Paloviita

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Disaster management policy changes in Bangladesh: Drivers and factors of a shift from reactive to proactive approach 孟加拉国灾害管理政策的变化：从被动应对到积极主动转变的驱动力和因素

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-01-07 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2094

Mahed Choudhury, C. Emdad Haque

{"title":"Disaster management policy changes in Bangladesh: Drivers and factors of a shift from reactive to proactive approach","authors":"Mahed Choudhury, C. Emdad Haque","doi":"10.1002/eet.2094","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2094","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we argue that, while it is necessary to modify existing policy using the lessons learned from disaster events (i.e., reactive learning), this approach is insufficient on its own for dealing with ongoing and emerging climate-induced disaster risks. Rather, we assert that policymakers must also adopt a proactive and anticipatory learning approach that would enable policy learning and policy evolution in the absence of a major disaster event. We examine drivers, actors, and processes of change in disaster-management policy paradigms in Bangladesh. A longitudinal learning perspective is applied. We categorize disaster management (DM) policy regimes into three learning episodes: (i) reactive, (ii) transitional, and (iii) proactive. The roles of reactive and proactive learning in shifting DM policy paradigms within these learning episodes are particularly determined. Finally, five interrelated factors that triggered proactive policymaking are identified, which are: risk-oriented policymaking; cross-scale (i.e., lesson drawing and policy transfer) and cross-level (i.e., from local, regional, and national experience) learning; participation of multiple stakeholders; research-informed and knowledge-based policymaking; and the presence of a strong advocacy group and a participatory policy process.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 5","pages":"445-462"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139410356","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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A policy portfolio approach to plastics throughout their life cycle: Supranational and national regulation in the European Union 针对塑料整个生命周期的政策组合方法：欧洲联盟的超国家和国家法规

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2092

Sandra Eckert, Orr Karassin, Yves Steinebach

{"title":"A policy portfolio approach to plastics throughout their life cycle: Supranational and national regulation in the European Union","authors":"Sandra Eckert, Orr Karassin, Yves Steinebach","doi":"10.1002/eet.2092","DOIUrl":"10.1002/eet.2092","url":null,"abstract":"The environmental and health problems caused by plastics throughout their life cycle have attracted considerable public attention over the past decade, triggering policy responses in many constituencies. Similarly, interdisciplinary research on plastics has been burgeoning in the past few years, and political science contributions have covered the manifold root causes and consequences of this shift in public policy including media coverage, evolving discourses and policy agendas. In view of this policy relevance that drives scholarly inquiry, it is surprising that we lack a systematic assessment of the actual policy outputs. This article fills this lacuna by developing a policy portfolio approach to plastic regulation. To illustrate and substantiate our approach, we provide an exploratory analysis of EU plastics regulation over the last twenty years, complementing this with Denmark, Germany, and Poland as diverse cases of member state regulation. Overall, our research shows that the number of policy measures targeting plastics has massively increased both at the supranational and national level. This policy growth, however, varies across policy targets and instruments. Our findings highlight first, that the policy targets addressed are mainly located at the end of the plastics life cycle; and second, that the instrument choice is privileging the use of hierarchical forms of intervention over the use of market- or information-based instruments. We discuss these features of the policy portfolio approach in light of existing research on plastics and life-cycle-oriented policy approaches such as the Circular Economy.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"34 4","pages":"427-441"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139376022","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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Empowerment and disempowerment in climate assemblies: The French citizens' convention on climate 气候大会中的赋权与失权：法国公民气候公约

IF 3 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2093

Adrián Galván Labrador, Christos Zografos

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