Advancing the Governance of Cross‐sectoral Policies for Sustainable Development: A Metagovernance Perspective

Christopoulos, Stamatios; Horváth, Balázs; Kull, Michael

doi:10.1002/pad.1629

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“…(Cash et al 2006, Haines-Young and Potschin 2008, IPCC 2014a) Cross-boundary Interactions that occur between administratively and/or politically distinct places to deal with environmental issues such as climate change impacts. (Truong 2011, Baker et al 2012, Nguyen 2012 Cross-sectoral Interactions between government sectors such as health and environment (USFS 2011, Christopoulos et al 2012 distinct boundaries that insulate them from external influences. In relation to governance, systems theory consists of factors such as feedback loops and communication and control mechanisms, as well as allowing for changes in governance paradigms: for example, moving from centrally controlled governments to governance through a variety of techniques and instruments (see Esmark 2011).…”

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Coordination and health sector adaptation to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Gilfillan¹,

Nguyen²,

Pham³

2017

E&S

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ABSTRACT. This research examines the impact of three coordination dimensions on health sector adaptation to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: cross-scale, cross-sectoral, and cross-boundary. While tasks are divided up between government ministries and departments in Vietnam, there is little collaboration on issues that span mandates. Similarly, while water flows in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta take resource management and health concerns across provincial boundaries, formal mechanisms for interprovincial collaboration are lacking. While decentralization efforts have sought to devolve authority and decision making to lower levels, there is continued state-centered top-down policy making, and this limits collaborative coordination across scales. All three of these issues inhibit health sector adaptation to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, and though these coordination issues are recognized by the Vietnamese government, to date there has been little success in addressing them. The authors hope to stimulate further debate and discussion of coordination problems, and conclude that despite some significant challenges, the South West Steering Committee could play a facilitating role coordinating climate change responses in health and other sectors across the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. As an analysis of governance, this research is applicable to other areas and sectors in Vietnam, as well as to other parts of South East Asia.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Coordination and health sector adaptation to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Gilfillan¹,

Nguyen²,

Pham³

2017

E&S

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“…Furthermore, this process of institution building must take place both below and above existing national governments. It is for this reason that many see the development of meta-governance as an important mechanism for sustainability issues [97]. In terms of innovation, this approach challenges the assumption that the poor are too poor to eco-innovate.…”

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Managing the transition to critical green growth: The ‘Green Growth State’

Vázquez‐Brust

Smith

Sarkis

2014

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“…It aims to make network governance, market governance and hierarchical governance work together in a particular way for a particular situation and allows for different governance at different levels. By mapping the needs and by supporting solutions towards context-specific sustainability, this may contribute to reducing the vagueness of the SD concept and the complexity of its implementation [63]. It helps managing plurality with the aim to induce more coherence [64].…”

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“…A metagovernance view on energy policy could address the potential benefits and costs of each of these approaches instead of letting one (exclusively) dominate. Indeed, sustainable energy programs in Croatia and Mongolia, where market, network and hierarchical mechanisms were combined, have been analyzed as successful [63].…”

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Common But Differentiated Governance: A Metagovernance Approach to Make the SDGs Work

2015

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Abstract:The implementation of the common and universally applicable United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires differentiated governance frameworks at all levels, as it falls short to use one governance style only-hierarchical, network or market governance-or any one style combination that is believed to be fit-for-all-purposes. The article introduces the guiding principle of "Common But Differentiated Governance" (CBDG) and illustrates how this principle can make the SDGs work. It will be shown that, after more than 15 years' experience with the concept of "metagovernance" (how to combine different governance styles into successful governance frameworks), there seems to be some convergence towards using this as comprehensive approach to achieve situationally appropriate governance frameworks. In this article, we have elaborated how policy makers could use metagovernance, combined with key governance principles, as mechanism to support analysis, design and management of SDG governance frameworks, to make failures noticed, and to suggest mitigation measures. Metagovernance respects common principles like rule of law, but takes as starting point that there may be different pathways to achieve them. A possible step-by-step approach for SDG implementation with metagovernance is OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 12296 proposed, as well as establishing governance support arrangements to assist process design, review, monitoring and evaluation, at least at the national level.

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Advancing the Governance of Cross‐sectoral Policies for Sustainable Development: A Metagovernance Perspective

Cited by 76 publications

References 27 publications

Coordination and health sector adaptation to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Coordination and health sector adaptation to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Managing the transition to critical green growth: The ‘Green Growth State’

Common But Differentiated Governance: A Metagovernance Approach to Make the SDGs Work

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