Realizing water transitions: the role of policy entrepreneurs in water policy change

Huitema, D.; Meijerink, Sander

doi:10.5751/es-03488-150226

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“…They enable new agent capacities and skills -including those of policy entrepreneurship [19,[54][55][56]-that focus on addressing common environmental problems at both sides of the border, "taking benefits from complementary assets, using synergies and critical masses to improve their competitive advantages as well as on co-ordination and integration objectives or coalition building" [57]. Due to their (spatial) proximities, such governance structures may contribute in a decisive way to join the forces of adjacent countries to combat common environmental issues in river basins.…”

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Exploring Institutional Transformations to Address High-End Climate Change in Iberia

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Abstract:Either meeting the UNFCCC Paris agreement to limit global average warming below the 2-1.5 • C threshold, or going beyond it entails huge challenges in terms of institutional innovation and transformation. This research describes a participatory integrated assessment process aimed at exploring the options, opportunities, necessary capacities and implications for institutional co-operation and innovation in the Iberian Peninsula under High-End Climate Change (HECC). Using in-depth interviews and a novel participatory research approach, different scenario narratives and pathways about the future of Iberia have been identified using Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs). Special attention is given to the knowledge and policy options needed to implement cross-border organizational changes and co-operation mechanisms that would support the Integrated Climate Governance of the Tagus and Guadiana river basins. We show that a wealth of institutional innovation pathways and specific options and solutions exist not only to reduce GHG emissions (mitigation) and the negative impacts of climate change (adaptation), but, above all, to generate new forms of social-ecological system interactions aligned with sustainability (transformation). In particular, and depending on which scenario contexts unfold in the future in Iberia, different kinds of institutional and governance capacities and clusters of solutions may be needed in order to achieve transformation.

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Exploring Institutional Transformations to Address High-End Climate Change in Iberia

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“…By ecosystem stewardship we mean a strengthened capacity to learn from, respond to, and manage environmental feedback in dynamic ecosystems [18]. The strategies by which institutional entrepreneurs may perform such changes include sense making and visioning [5,19], facilitating knowledge building [20], forging new alliances [7], building trust [21], mobilizing multiple resources [22], or facilitating conflict resolution and negotiation [16].…”

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“…Enhancing the resilience of these areas is challenging, not only because of institutional inertia but also because multiple stresses act at any one place [3], public opinion often causes a delay in problem recognition [4], and budgetary constraints impede action [2]. Previous research on ecosystem governance shows that institutional entrepreneurs have a key role to play in introducing new forms of governance that can better deal with this complexity and contribute to a sustainable future [5][6][7][8]. These entrepreneurs are groups of individuals, organizations, and networks that initiate divergent changes and participate in their implementation by actively mobilizing resources [9].…”

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Improving Stewardship of Marine Resources: Linking Strategy to Opportunity

2014

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Abstract:The need for improved stewardship of coastal and marine resources is evident worldwide. However, complex ecosystem dynamics, institutional inertia, and budgetary constraints impede such action. This study explores how networks of change-oriented individuals or "institutional entrepreneurs" can introduce new types of human-environment interaction. The focus is on investigating the interplay between the strategies of institutional entrepreneurs and broader system dynamics that shape the context in which they are working, and possible impacts of institutional entrepreneurship on marine governance. We explore these issues in the context of Wakatobi National Park in eastern Indonesia. We suggest that creating links between different social spheres, such as between marine resource management and spirituality or between marine resource management and education, may accelerate the development of a new ecosystem stewardship. We further suggest that the use of media has significant power to show alternative futures, but that media may also serve to objectify certain resource users and increase the complexity of marine resource management. In general, institutional entrepreneurs play an important role in capturing and managing opportunity to open up space for experimentation and novel ideas, for example by linking their ideas to broader political priorities. Yet, such strategies bear the risk of institutional capture. Finally, institutional entrepreneurs sometimes have vested interests in certain solutions that may forsake experimentation toward a sustainable future.

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“…These individuals and organisations resemble the change "entrepreneurs" the adaptive water governance literature which push for reform agenda and adaptation of practices (Huitema and Meijerink 2010).…”

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Working across scales in integrated catchment management: lessons learned for adaptive water governance from regional experiences

Rouillard

Spray

2016

Reg Environ Change

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Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) has in recent years been promoted by a wealth of "top-down", government policies, while a number of "bottom-up", community-based initiatives have also been set up. At the same time, adaptive water governance, built around multi-level, integrative and participatory institutional arrangements, is called for in order to enhance adaptive capacity of social-ecological systems to global changes.Working across scales, aligning planning processes, and multi-actor collaboration are key issues in the linking of top-down and bottom-up ICM, hence providing insights into how adaptive water governance can work in practice. The paper presents a study of how ICM actors work across scales and reconcile national and local priorities in 15 regional experiences chosen to reflect a diversity of scales, histories and governance arrangements. It is complemented with an in-depth, illustrative example, taken from the Tweed River Basin in Scotland, where a local charity has gradually developed and helped bridge gaps between local communities and government. Research results present the ways in which "trusted intermediaries" can successfully close the gap across levels of governance, i.e. between communities, business, and governmental interests at multiple scales.Local "trusted intermediaries" perform well, with their local knowledge, at building rapport with key actors and effectuate change on the ground. The research also indicates the need for a legal framework, or at least an established policy structure, that acts to harness the good will and interests of local actors while improving implementation of broader, national objectives. There appears to be no specific mechanism for multi-level collaboration, although results indicate that more formal and coercive forms of partnership are necessary at later stages to ensure implementation, for example via the establishment of formal duties on public bodies or legally binding agreements between ICM stakeholders.2

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Realizing water transitions: the role of policy entrepreneurs in water policy change

Cited by 210 publications

References 39 publications

Exploring Institutional Transformations to Address High-End Climate Change in Iberia

Exploring Institutional Transformations to Address High-End Climate Change in Iberia

Improving Stewardship of Marine Resources: Linking Strategy to Opportunity

Working across scales in integrated catchment management: lessons learned for adaptive water governance from regional experiences

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