Limits to polycentricity? Institutional layering and policy feedbacks of building energy performance requirements in Sweden

Smedby, Nora

doi:10.1002/eet.1874

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“…In this paper, we focus on institutions as key elements of socio‐technical systems (Andrews‐Speed, 2016), acknowledging that socio‐technical systems comprise various elements such as markets, technology, culture, and policy (Geels & Schot, 2007, p. 409). We concentrate on national‐level policy, while recognizing that governance occurs at multiple levels (e.g., Smedby, 2019) and across national and subnational geographical borders (e.g., Jager, 2016; Stead, 2014). For socio‐technical change to occur current policies, independent of the level, need to be de‐aligned to destabilize unsustainable configurations and foster novelty (Geels & Schot, 2007).…”

Section: Theory: Cooperation Visions and Coalition‐building In Sustai...mentioning

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The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems

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The paper shows that visions of the future can be used as a predictor of cooperation and division between actors in their efforts to shape the institutional environment, specifically policy in socio‐technical systems. Accordingly, the paper suggests a new method to analyze visions: a virtual solution space in which visions can be grouped according to their similarity. The similarity of visions is calculated based on cluster analysis. Empirically, the paper focuses on the networks between industry associations in the heating transition in the German building sector. It shows that actors whose visions of future socio‐technical system developments overlap are more likely to cooperate with each other. It also suggests that the fragmentation of the residential heating system in Germany is reflected in a fragmented actor network. Furthermore, the authors show that shared technological interests can outweigh similar visions. These fragmented technological interests hinder meaningful cooperation. This is potentially one reason why a powerful low‐carbon heating coalition in Germany that could facilitate an accelerated deployment of low‐carbon heat systems by driving policy change has not emerged to date. The paper contributes to a better understanding of how niche actors in sustainability transitions use their agency and specifically strategize to bring about institutional change. In this respect, the authors discuss how differing levels of system‐fragmentation influence transition dynamics in general and institutional change dynamics in particular.

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The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems

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Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo

Vedeld¹,

Hofstad²,

Hilde³

et al. 2021

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Cities have emerged as important agents and sites in climate governance interventions, experimentations and networks. Drawing upon two strains of climate governance and collaborative governance literature, respectively, this article adopts a polycentric approach to the analysis of Oslo's urban climate governance. It unpacks the relationships between urban leadership, climate goal‐setting and institutional design, and reveals how these variables condition the employment of a combination of integrative and interactive governing instruments that foster both self‐governance and co‐creation in climate responses. The article argues that broad and long‐term political support facilitates the adoption of ambitious climate goals, utilization of regulatory powers, and the design and operations of innovative hybrid mixes of integrative and interactive governing instruments. The hybrid combination of instruments is what provides the basis for synergistic, predictable and dynamic forms of self‐governance and co‐created linkages among public and private ‘units’ within the wider urban climate governance ecosystem. Trans‐local and transnational networks play an important role in building such capacities for urban climate governance. Local processes of co‐creation and networked experimentations are ‘scaling up’ to change policies at city, national and international levels. The empirical observations from Oslo have implication for theories of polycentric urban climate governance and for the promise and limitations of co‐creation in the climate arena. The analysis draws upon qualitative interviews with close to 50 public and private stakeholders and policy document studies.

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The state against the environment? Water management and the regulation of tensions between sectoral policies in France

Barone

2024

Env Pol Gov

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The effectiveness and efficiency of environmental policy largely depends on how other policies take account of ecological objectives, whether in the industrial, agricultural, urban planning, transport, housing or budget sectors. The state bears responsibility for how these public policies interrelate, including establishing a hierarchy of priority or allowing one area to ignore another. What can we learn about environmental policy from an analysis of the tensions between multiple sectoral policies, and more generally about the state and the political and institutional functioning that shapes the management of an environmental issue? Taking water management in France as a case study, this article argues that an approach focused on the regulation of tensions between various public policies can shed new light on the structural difficulties of environmental policy. It shows how ideas, norms, interests, strategies, professional cultures, and so forth, that underpin public policy outside the environmental field shape the handling of ecological issues. It also highlights the way the state views and handles these tensions between policies through institutional arrangements and socio‐political compromises with influential sectoral actors and social groups.

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Limits to polycentricity? Institutional layering and policy feedbacks of building energy performance requirements in Sweden

Cited by 8 publications

References 56 publications

The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems

The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems

Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo

The state against the environment? Water management and the regulation of tensions between sectoral policies in France

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