Participatory processes for designing environmental policies

Renn, Ortwin

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2004.08.005

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“…If there is no conflict, hierarchic interaction seems plausible, since there is no reason for more cost-intensive and thus less efficient forms of interaction. If there is a conflict, deliberation can help to reach agreement [78]. This might apply especially to cases of low or medium degrees of conflict regarding facts and truth.…”

Section: Governance Strategies Facilitating Conflict Solvingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Addressing Complexity in Environmental Management and Governance

Kirschke

Newig

2017

Sustainability

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Governance for complex problem solving has been increasingly discussed in environmental sustainability research. Above all, researchers continuously observe that sustainability problems are complex or "wicked", and suggest participatory models to address these problems in practice. In order to add to this debate, this study suggests a more differentiated theoretical approach to define governance for complex environmental problem solving than in previous studies. The approach consists of two vital steps: First, we operationalize complexity and define management strategies for solving environmental sustainability problems based on findings from psychology research. Second, we identify governance strategies that facilitate these management strategies. Linking those strategies suggests that the role of diverse institutions, actors, and interactions differs for five key dimensions of complexity: goals, variables, dynamics, interconnections, and informational uncertainty. The results strengthen systematic analyses of environmental sustainability problems in both theory and practice.

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Section: Governance Strategies Facilitating Conflict Solvingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Addressing Complexity in Environmental Management and Governance

Kirschke

Newig

2017

Sustainability

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“…As Renn [51] concludes, the goals of the definition of these steps are multifold. In particular, the community managed to:…”

Section: Evaluation Of the Strategic Plan And Link To The Environmentmentioning

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Sustainable Local Development and Environmental Governance: A Strategic Planning Experience

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Abstract:The emphasis on learning and adaptation among different actors at various political administrative levels and on various geographic scales has become a precondition for the emergence of sustainable development. It is possible to find the essential form of collaborative management by using a Strategic Plan, designed to determine a local model of sustainable competitiveness in economic, social and environmental terms. The adoption of a Strategic Plan stimulates a process of shared knowledge, through which it is possible to generate a new environmental governance (EG) that is truly representative of a local system. This paper presents, as a case study representative of the Italian context, the Strategic Plan of the Nebrodi area (SP), and assesses the structure of a new form of public and private environmental governance focused on sustainable concern. Finally, the SP could be considered a guideline for managing the local territorial and environmental system from a long-term perspective.

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“…They can also prolong decision making and immobilise institutions (for problems in deliberation see e.g. (Renn 1998(Renn , 2006(Renn , 2008. But, and this is the crucial question addressed in this paper, how might these desiderata be achieved: through consensus or through compromise?…”

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Compromise not consensus: designing a participatory process for landslide risk mitigation

2015

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With the escalating costs of landslides, the challenge for local authorities is to develop institutional arrangements for landslide risk management that are viewed as efficient, feasible and fair by those affected. For this purpose, the participation of stakeholders in the decision making process is mandated by the European Union as a way of improving its perceived legitimacy and transparency. This paper reports on an analytical-deliberative process for selecting landslide risk mitigation measures in the town of Nocera Inferiore in southern Italy. The process was structured as a series of meetings with a group of selected residents and several parallel activities open to the public. The preparatory work included a literature/media review, semi-structured interviews carried out with key local stakeholders and a survey eliciting residents' views on landslide risk management. The main point of departure in the design of this process was the explicit elicitation and structuring of multiple worldviews (or perspectives) among the participants with respect to the nature of the problem and its solution. Rather than eliciting preferences using decision analytical methods (e.g. utility theory or multi-criteria evaluation), this process built on a body of research -based on the theory of plural rationality -that has teased out the limited number of contending and socially constructed definitions of problem-andsolution that are able to achieve viability. This framing proved effective in structuring participants' views and arriving at a compromise recommendation (not, as is often aimed for, a consensus) on measures for reducing landslide risk. Experts played a unique role in this process by providing a range of policy options that corresponded to the different perspectives held by the participants.

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Participatory processes for designing environmental policies

Cited by 255 publications

References 38 publications

Addressing Complexity in Environmental Management and Governance

Addressing Complexity in Environmental Management and Governance

Sustainable Local Development and Environmental Governance: A Strategic Planning Experience

Compromise not consensus: designing a participatory process for landslide risk mitigation

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