Explaining choices in energy infrastructure development as a network of adjacent action situations: The case of LNG in the Baltic Sea region

Abstract

Highlights • NAAS concept operationalizes a polycentric perspective on energy infrastructure governance. • In the Baltic Sea region, LNG infrastructure fulfills expectations in three issue-areas simultaneously. • Not only actors, but also resources, information and rules can link action situations, affecting policy output. • Technological lock-in is more evident at the level of the Baltic region than of individual countries.

Policy issue interdependency and the formation of collaborative networks

“…Previous research has also described policy issue interdependencies as synergies and trade‐offs that emerge when addressing one policy issue affects the abilities to address other issues positively or negatively (Dade et al., 2019; Galafassi et al., 2017; Nilsson et al., 2016). Furthermore, policy issue interdependencies have been studied in different empirical contexts, such as in wildfire responder networks (Bodin & Nohrstedt, 2016), energy (Gritsenko, 2018), infrastructure (Wang et al., 2014), wetlands (Angst, 2019; Jaramillo et al., 2019) and ecosystem services (Dade et al., 2019). These studies show, among other things, that policy issues and policy issue interdependencies are highly specific to the geographical context and the dominating environmental problems that exist there.…”

Problem Framing Influences Linkages Among Networks of Collective Action Situations for Water Provision, Wastewater, and Water Conservation in a Metropolitan Region

“…NAAS has been applied to topics ranging from water, food, and energy value chains (Villamayor-Tomas et al, 2015) to modeling irrigation-related AS networks as ecologies of games where actors achieve configurational equilibria conditions (Kimmich & Tomas, 2017). It has been used to understand the public and private co-production, provision and financing of welfare service delivery (McGinnis, 2011b) and the development of liquefied natural gas infrastructure in the Baltic Sea (Gritsenko, 2018). The framework has even been valuable for explaining unexpected outcomes, such as the emergence of procedural and distributional justice inequalities in a Sierra Leone biofuel production project, despite efforts by telecoupled cross-continental actors to incorporate inclusive governance arrangements and to incorporate community perspectives (Oberlack et al, 2018).…”

Situaciones de acción y juegos cooperativos. Un análisis teórico de la doble dimensión de la acción colectiva para la gobernanza comunitaria de recursos de uso común

“…Entre estos procesos se cuentan la coordinación entre actores para usar de forma sustentable cuencas hidrográficas en Colombia (Cárdenas et al, 2011;Cárdenas y Ortiz, 2018) y espacios costeros para la pesca de langosta en Estados Unidos (McGinnis, 2011a). También se han analizado las coordinaciones para producir electricidad desde la operación de sistemas de irrigación en la India (Kimmich, 2013) y para el desarrollo de infraestructura generadora de energía en la región del mar Báltico (Gritsenko, 2018).…”