Boundary organisations and their strategies: Three cases in the Wadden Sea

Enst, W.I. van; Runhaar, Hens; Driessen, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2015.08.016

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“…Several boundary organisations operate on the interface between policy and science. Whereas a number of these focus on nature and sustainability in the Wadden Sea area (Van Enst et al, 2016), only the Wadden Academy specifically aims to enhance science-policy interaction in the field of cultural heritage and history. In some cases, strategic use of scientific knowledge by stakeholders has resulted in symbols that obstruct an integrated approach to nature and culture.…”

Section: Dutch Waddenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving beyond the hard boundary

Egberts

2019

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Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to assess the consequences of a nature-culture divide in spatial policy on cultural heritage in the Dutch Wadden Sea area, which is protected by UNESCO for its ecological assets. Design/methodology/approach-This paper investigates this by discussing the international and national policy frameworks and regional examples of the consequences of the divide. Findings-The effects of the nature-culture divide appear to be negative for the landscape. Approaching the Wadden Sea Region as an agricultural-maritime landscape could help overcome the fixation on nature vs culture and the hardness of the sea dikes as spatial boundaries between the two domains. A reconsideration of the trilateral Wadden Sea region as a mixed World Heritage Site could lead to a more integrated perspective. Originality/value-These findings inform policy development and the management of landscape and heritage in the region. This case forms an example for other European coastal regions that struggle with conflicting natural and cultural-historical interests. Keywords Cultural heritage, Dutch national spatial policy, Natural heritage, Wadden Sea area Paper type Research paper

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Section: Dutch Waddenmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Egberts

2019

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“…Balancing legitimacy, credibility, and salience is often seen as a matter of boundary management between knowledge creation and decision-making. Such boundary management involves knowledge brokering across science-policy boundaries, and the establishment of boundary organizations that serve as intermediaries between science and policy (Cook et al, 2013;Van Enst, Runhaar, & Driessen, 2016). For instance, Cash et al (2003, p. 8089) argue that those systems that made a serious commitment to managing boundaries between expertise and decision making more effectively linked knowledge to action than those that did not.…”

Section: Legitimacy Credibility and Salience: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trade-offs and synergies in joint knowledge creation for coastal management: insights from ecology-oriented sand nourishment in the Netherlands

Molen

Swart

Windt

2018

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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In order to successfully inform environmental management, environmental research needs to balance legitimacy, credibility, and salience. This paper aims to identify tradeoffs and synergies between these three attributes in collaborative research for environmental management, and draws lessons for organizing such research. Empirically, it draws on a study of a research program on the ecological effects of coastal protection through sand nourishment. Our findings suggest that the legitimacy and salience of knowledge creation, particularly in an interactive governance context, are complementary. At the same time, we found trade-offs between practical relevance and fundamental knowledge creation, as well as between issue diversity and the depth and quality of scientific inquiry. Balancing the legitimacy, credibility, and salience of knowledge may be enabled by interactive knowledge creation involving policy-makers, experts and stakeholders. We conclude that successful managementoriented environmental research, particularly in the case of wicked problems, requires both a careful design of arrangements for stakeholder engagement, and wellestablished linkages to broader regulatory and institutional contexts.

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“…In the field of sustainable development, the use of scientific knowledge is considered essential for understanding complex environmental problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss, identifying effective measures to address these problems, and informing environmental policy-making [1][2][3][4][5]. However, as Van Kerkhoff and Lebel [6] argue, the use of scientific knowledge is neither sufficient nor self-evident.…”

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Working at the Boundary: An Empirical Study into the Goals and Strategies of Knowledge Brokers in the Field of Environmental Governance in the Netherlands

2017

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Abstract:There is a broad range of literature on individuals who mediate at the boundaries between science and policy. However, there seems to be little empirical evidence on the goals and strategies of knowledge brokers, even though they appear to be becoming increasingly important in the field of environmental science and policy. This paper aims to improve the understanding of why and how knowledge brokers operate through an analysis of 27 in-depth interviews. It demonstrates that they see themselves as (strategically) sensitive to all stakes and stakeholders involved, possess a large network, and act without interests. They appear to act strategically in two different settings: on stage, where the collaboration of all stakeholders is needed, and backstage, where the knowledge broker steers the process on his/her own. Furthermore, our research suggests that the (perceived) credibility and legitimacy of the knowledge broker is more important to the process than the degree of credibility and legitimacy of the knowledge used in the decision-making process, and that it would be advisable to deploy knowledge brokers proactively, instead of reactively, which could lead to 'incident politics'.

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Boundary organisations and their strategies: Three cases in the Wadden Sea

Cited by 33 publications

References 32 publications

Moving beyond the hard boundary

Moving beyond the hard boundary

Trade-offs and synergies in joint knowledge creation for coastal management: insights from ecology-oriented sand nourishment in the Netherlands

Working at the Boundary: An Empirical Study into the Goals and Strategies of Knowledge Brokers in the Field of Environmental Governance in the Netherlands

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