Cross-sectoral policy integration at the forest and water nexus: National level instrument choices and integration drivers in the European Union

Baulenas, Eulàlia; Sotirov, Metodi

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102247

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“…The type of policy instruments in which a goal is adopted can be substantive or procedural. Here we use the typology that includes regulatory, organizational, financial or information-based substantive instruments (for forest and water see Baulenas & Sotirov, 2020). With regard to procedural instruments, we focus on participatory processes.…”

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“…Water quality is the central issue of water policy in Europe addressed through the EU's Water Framework Directive, which is a legally-binding legislation that member states had to implement through national actions (Borja et al, 2004). It introduced a new governance approach towards crosssectoral policy integration and integrated land use planning across local-regional-national-European scales and was expected to increase forest-water sectors interactions (Baulenas & Sotirov, 2020;Theesfeld & Schleyer, 2013). On the other hand, water quantity is considered an emerging environmental challenge in Europe (EC, n.d.;Mekonnen et al, 2016).…”

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Forest and water policy integration: A process and output‐oriented policy network analysis

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Natural resource management requires cross-sectoral policy integration because the scope of current environmental and sustainability issues surpasses traditional sectoral boundaries. While the emergence of policy networks in such cases has been observed in the policy integration literature, little is known about how these networks are formed and how they influence the processes and outputs of policy integration. Accordingly, the main aim of this article is to combine the policy integration and policy network literatures to answer two research questions: How can the formation of a policy network for the case of forest and water policy integration be explained? What are the effects of the policy network on policy integration outputs?We use qualitative interviews and social network analysis to inform the study of two regional case studies in Germany and Spain. Our results show the relevance of a policy broker in steering the interactions between forest and water policy actors, combined with the presence of synergetic interdependencies, which facilitated the activation of the network. Additionally, the activities performed contributed to ideational homogenization between the forest and water sectors in terms of problem definition and preferred solutions, despite initial divergences. We conclude that a policy network perspective is an important contribution to the policy integration literature because it allows differentiating the influence of actor-level and network-level factors on integrated processes and outputs. In conclusion, both actors and their relationships should be accounted for as key intermediary variables to better understand and steer policy integration between natural resource sectors.

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“…: Metz et al (2020), Schmitz and Eimer (2020) Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) Necessary and sufficient conditions for policy integration e.g. : Baulenas and Sotirov (2020), Careja (2011), Trein et al (2021a Quantitative text analysis Integration of policy goals into documents e.g. : (Biesbroek et al 2020), Isoaho et al (2019), Reber et al (2022) especially useful for research projects comparing different policy problems and/or countries.…”

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Empirical research on policy integration: a review and new directions

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Research on policy integration has become an important part of public policy scholarship by analyzing how policymakers create linkages between policy subsystems to deal with complex policy problems. To develop this research program further, it is crucial to know how policy integration relates to broader theoretical and methodological developments in the field of public policy studies. This article reviews the empirical literature on policy integration in the last 10 years focusing on concepts, theories, research design, and methods, drawing upon a sample of 413 articles. Results show no systematic patterns in how these four dimensions combine in policy integration research. Above all, stages and theories of the policy process appear to be incorporated in policy integration studies only to a very limited extent. These findings point to four new directions for policy integration research: (1) Striking a balance between conceptual richness and consolidation regarding “policy integration”; (2) An increased focus on the evaluation of integrated policies; (3) More attention to actor-oriented and explanatory theories; (4) The potential for combining qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis.

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“…These were legislative tools for coercing engagement and compliance with certain aspects of NBS in the city. These included regulations around natural urban drainage Papparlardo & La Rosa, 2020), afforestation (Baulenas & Sotirov, 2020), building regulations for green roofs (Suleiman et al, 2020).…”

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Urban governance and policy mixes for nature-based solutions and integrated water policy

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2021

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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This paper explores how varied systems of governance work at the European city level to deliver different policy mixes for implementing nature-based approaches which support integrated water management and policy. Urban systems provide unique insights here due to the concentration of consumption, economic activities and excessive land-use pressures. However, few studies are providing generic insights, rooted in policy and political theory perspectives, on the dynamic impact of urban governance systems on different mixes of policies to integrate urban nature and water management approaches. The paper fills this gap through an extensive literature review. It first draws on analysis that focuses on institutional logics of operation to understand how urban institutional arrangements of governance shape the framing of the policy problem and how this influences the choice of policy approaches. It then explores the related administrative processes including decision support tools, participatory approaches, and funding regimes. These administrative approaches deliver, potentially, different policy responses that take into account integrated nature-based policy approaches to urban water governance.

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Cross-sectoral policy integration at the forest and water nexus: National level instrument choices and integration drivers in the European Union

Cited by 18 publications

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Forest and water policy integration: A process and output‐oriented policy network analysis

Forest and water policy integration: A process and output‐oriented policy network analysis

Empirical research on policy integration: a review and new directions

Urban governance and policy mixes for nature-based solutions and integrated water policy

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