Administrative Short-Termism—A Non-Issue in Environmental and Regional Governance

Sjöblom, Stefan

doi:10.1080/15239080903033747

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“…Further, the Victorian environmental movement has established a petition that explicitly opposes the abolishment of VEAC (VNPA, 2010). Conceptually, the Government's proposal potentially represents a move in the direction of 'administrative short-termism' (Sjoblom, 2009) and 'deinstitutionalisation' (Mol, 2009) rather than an institutionalising of sustainability (Dovers, 2001).…”

Section: An Emerging Challenge For Strategic Land Use Planning In Vicmentioning

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Strategic public land use assessment and planning in Victoria, Australia: Four decades of trailblazing but where to from here?

Coffey

Fitzsimons

Gormly³

2011

Land Use Policy

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Section: An Emerging Challenge For Strategic Land Use Planning In Vicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategic public land use assessment and planning in Victoria, Australia: Four decades of trailblazing but where to from here?

Coffey

Fitzsimons

Gormly³

2011

Land Use Policy

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“…Since Sweden and Finland entered the European Union, research has increasingly favoured a reliance on project-based activities in the public sector (e.g., Brunila 2009;Brunila & Ylöstalo 2013;Hansson & Lundahl 2004;Sjöblom 2009). Such an increased favouring of these types of projects forms part of a larger societal and market-oriented shift that has created a site in which to mix public and private interests.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Rantala & Sulkunen 2006;Sjöblom 2009;Vehviläinen & Brunila 2007). A significant proportion of domestic funds have been directed towards projects that specifically reflect EU policies (Bache 1998;Sjöblom 2009). …”

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Troubling gender equality: Revisiting gender equality work in the famous Nordic model countries

Edström¹,

Brunila²

2016

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This article concerns gender equality work, that is, those educational and workplace activities that involve the promotion of gender equality. It is based on research conducted in Sweden and Finland, and focuses on the period during which the public sector has become more market-oriented and project-based all over the Nordic countries. The consequences of this development on gender equality work have not yet been thoroughly analysed. Our joint empirical analysis is based on discourse-analytic methodology and two previous empirical studies. By analysing interviews conducted with people involved in gender equality work, this article emphasises the effects of market-oriented and project-based gender equality work in education and working life in Sweden and in Finland. The findings highlight an alliance between projectisation and heteronormativity that acts to regulate how gender equality ought to be talked about in order for its issues to be heard. A persistently constructed 'remedy' to 'the gender equality problem' is that girls and women are positioned as 'needing' to change more than boys and men, by adopting more traditionally 'masculine manners' and choosing to work Edström and Brunila Troubling gender equality in more 'masculine sectors'. The findings also show that the constitutive forces of these discourses provide little leeway for critical perspectives.

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“…Sponsors of restoration projects demand that funds are used efficiently and increasingly funds for conservation are allocated and managed through the mechanism of specific and relatively short-term projects [11]. A project may be defined simply as "a single intervention characterized by a fixed time schedule and dedicated budget" [8]. This implies control over the allocation and expenditure of funds by the organisation that controls the budgets.…”

Section: The Implementation Of Ecological Restoration In the Ukmentioning

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“…The critique of projectification here parallels similar critiques of New Public Management in public administration. Sjöblom [8] has commented that "The gradual development towards increasingly non-permanent and informal structures is, in fact, one of the most important-although still very much neglected-administrative changes of the past decades." The paper then considers the relevance of moves proposed in that literature towards Public Value Management for conservation planning.…”

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Short-Term Projects versus Adaptive Governance: Conflicting Demands in the Management of Ecological Restoration

Hodge

Adams

2016

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Drawing on a survey of large-scale ecological restoration initiatives, we find that managers face contradictory demands. On the one hand, they have to raise funds from a variety of sources through competitive procedures for individual projects. These projects require the specification of deliverable outputs within a relatively short project period. On the other hand, ecologists argue that the complexity of ecosystem processes means that it is not possible to know how to deliver predetermined outcomes and that governance should be adaptive, long-term and implemented through networks of stakeholders. This debate parallels a debate in public administration between New Public Management and more recent proposals for a new approach, sometimes termed Public Value Management. Both of these approaches have strengths. Projectification provides control and accountability to funders. Adaptive governance recognises complexity and provides for long-term learning, building networks and adaptive responses. We suggest an institutional architecture that aims to capture the major benefits of each approach based on public support dedicated to ecological restoration and long-term funding programmes.

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Administrative Short-Termism—A Non-Issue in Environmental and Regional Governance

Cited by 61 publications

References 4 publications

Strategic public land use assessment and planning in Victoria, Australia: Four decades of trailblazing but where to from here?

Strategic public land use assessment and planning in Victoria, Australia: Four decades of trailblazing but where to from here?

Troubling gender equality: Revisiting gender equality work in the famous Nordic model countries

Short-Term Projects versus Adaptive Governance: Conflicting Demands in the Management of Ecological Restoration

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