Public Participation and Collaborative Governance

Newman, Janet; Barnes, Marian; Sullivan, Helen; Knops, Andrew

doi:10.1017/s0047279403007499

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“…Effectiveness of plans and programs, strength of legislative protection. Governance bodies may earn legitimacy through demonstrating effectiveness at producing conservation outcomes (Newman et al, 2004). Brooks et al (2005) also identified the effectiveness of governance and management authorities in delivering outcomes as an indicator of adaptive capacity.…”

Section: Effectiveness Of Engagement Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scenario analysis for biodiversity conservation: A social–ecological system approach in the Australian Alps

Mitchell

Lockwood

Moore

et al. 2015

Journal of Environmental Management

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Mitchell, M., Lockwood, M., Moore, S.A. and Clement, S. (2015)Scenario analysis for biodiversity conservation: A socialecological system approach in the Australian Alps. AbstractCurrent policy interventions are having limited success in addressing the ongoing decline in global biodiversity. In part, this is attributable to insufficient attention being paid to the social and governance processes that drive decisions and can undermine their implementation. Scenario planning that draws on social-ecological systems (SES) analysis provides a useful means to systematically explore and anticipate future uncertainties regarding the interaction between humans and biodiversity outcomes. However, the effective application of SES models has been limited by the insufficient attention given to governance influences. Understanding the influence governance attributes have on the future trajectory of SES is likely to assist choice of effective interventions, as well as needs and opportunities for governance reform. In a case study in the Australian Alps, we explore the potential of joint SES and scenario analyses to identify how governance influences landscape-scale biodiversity outcomes. Novel aspects of our application of these methods were the specification of the focal system's governance attributes according to requirements for adaptive capacity, and constraining scenarios according to the current governance settings while varying key social and biophysical drivers. This approach allowed us to identify how current governance arrangements influence landscape-scale biodiversity outcomes, and establishes a baseline from which the potential benefits of governance reform can be assessed. Key wordsSocial-ecological systems; Governance; Adaptive capacity; Biodiversity conservation Highlights• We undertake a futures analysis of threatened biodiversity in the Australian Alps • The analysis uses plausible future scenarios based on critical uncertainties • The critical uncertainties were identified using a social-ecological systems model • This model included governance influences on landscape-scale biodiversity outcomes• Our method provides a basis for identifying and assessing governance reform options

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Section: Effectiveness Of Engagement Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scenario analysis for biodiversity conservation: A social–ecological system approach in the Australian Alps

Mitchell

Lockwood

Moore

et al. 2015

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…The paradox between serving customers and collaborating with citizens' needs to be resolved finding a way to create public organisations with better results (Vigoda, 2002). That is why, in recent years, public administrations have considerably changed their ways of working and their relationships with citizens, which could previously be defined as formal and authoritarian (Brainard & McNutt, 2010), trying to collaborate with them as well as with other agencies and making an effort to involve citizens in the configuration of the services that they wish to receive (Newman, Barnes, Sullivan & Knops, 2004).…”

Section: Participationmentioning

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Relationships with Citizens in Public Management: A Study at the Largest Spanish Town Halls

2012

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Abstract:The present paper provides an analysis of the relationships between citizens' participation and satisfaction in the context of Spanish local administrations; attention will equally be paid to the links between organisational size and participation and satisfaction levels. With these aims in mind, we examine the results of a survey questionnaire that was answered by 388 Human Resources (HR) managers from the largest Spanish Town Halls.The foundation for this paper stems from the change of paradigm which has taken place within the framework of public management towards New Public Management during the last few years. Amongst other things, this paradigm implies a new type of relationship between public administrations and citizens where the passive role of the latter as addressees of services in a situation of subordination is going to be replaced by a more active role performed in a context of greater equality. In this respect, a claim is made both to increase the degree of participation of citizens in public decisions and to ensure the delivery of public services which meet citizens' needs.

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“…As much of the existing literature around user participation suggests (see, for example, Newman et al, 2004;Barnes et al, 2007), such conflicts are often underpinned by unequal power relations between stakeholders in the participation process.…”

Section: Negotiating Power and Conflict In User Participationmentioning

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Marginalised or Enabled Voices? ‘User Participation’ in Policy and Practice

Bochel¹,

Bochel²,

Somerville³

et al. 2008

Social Policy & Society

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The idea of participation has been central to many policy developments in recent years. Both Conservative and Labour governments have used notions of participation and involvement in attempts to justify and implement their social policies. Yet, despite a plethora of initiatives and guidance around 'participation' emerging from all levels of government, and a substantial academic literature, there remains a major, and potentially damaging, lack of clarity over many aspects of participation, while the secret of achieving 'real' participation appears to continue to remain elusive. The policy frameworkDuring the 1980s and 1990s the Conservative governments generally pursued a consumerist approach to participation, underpinned by their market-oriented ideology, the rise of consumerism more generally, and a desire amongst professionals and the users of services to see greater user involvement and empowerment in the shaping of services. In practice this was reflected in market and market-type mechanisms and the development of new public management approaches to the delivery of public services (for example, Bochel and Bochel, 2004;Massey and Pyper, 2005).

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Public Participation and Collaborative Governance

Cited by 338 publications

References 23 publications

Scenario analysis for biodiversity conservation: A social–ecological system approach in the Australian Alps

Scenario analysis for biodiversity conservation: A social–ecological system approach in the Australian Alps

Relationships with Citizens in Public Management: A Study at the Largest Spanish Town Halls

Marginalised or Enabled Voices? ‘User Participation’ in Policy and Practice

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