The means, motive and opportunity of devolved policy responses to an ecosystem approach

Kirsop-Taylor, Nick

doi:10.1057/s41293-019-00119-2

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“… a All innovations and discourse relating to cultures are not included in this article and are instead discussed in Kirsop-Taylor (2019), due to the particular depth and nuance of the cultural dimensionality of NRW.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although the UK Government made some initial attempts at implementing an EA, these were largely unsuccessful, and it was never codified into UK legislation (Waylen et al., 2014). Consideration for the EA’s transposition instead reverted to the devolved nations of the UK (Kirsop-Taylor, 2019). The Welsh Government transposed an EA through a legislative and policy framework set out in the ‘natural resources management’ programme (2013) and the Environment (Wales) Act (2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Figure 2 highlights the synergies and alternative interpretations between the CBD EA and the principles that guide the SMNR programme. The SMNR transposition adopts a more pragmatic operationalised version of the CBD EA principles (Kirsop-Taylor, 2019) in which its abstract notions (e.g. Fish and Saratsi, 2015) have been transformed into signals for organisational action.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The omission of a clear signal regards understanding economic contexts in decision-making is striking considering the UK Government’s decisive shift towards more economics-orientated approaches to natural resource management (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2018). This is reflective of a wider political tension between the Welsh and UK Governments over devolved policy making and legislation-setting (Kirsop-Taylor, 2019). What can be discerned from Figure 2 is that the SMNR approach is reflective of a particular reading of the EA principles being patronised and endorsed in a uniquely Welsh, or ‘dragonised’ approach to policy-making (St.Deny, 2016) and natural resource management (as per the Welsh dragon – the national emblem and flag).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Designing public agencies for 21st century water–energy–food nexus complexity: The case of Natural Resources Wales

Kirsop-Taylor

Hejnowicz

2020

Public Policy and Administration

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Public environmental organisations face a Herculean task: to be responsive to public and executive expectations for decentralisation, integration, increasing accountabilities and efficiency savings plus, contemporaneously, managing increasingly complex nature–society systems as exemplified by the water–energy–food nexus. The public-agency innovation literatures and contingency theory offer partial explanations for this challenge. However, this article, which sits at the intersection of public administration and organisational theory, proposes a new analytical framework for framing public-agency responses to nexus complexity. It first outlines the framework and then tests it on the case of Natural Resources Wales, the Welsh national natural environment agency. This case identifies six distinct innovations that have adopted to meet complex nexus pressures. This leads us to characterise the case as an example of a multi-scalar, hybrid, adhocratic organisation designed to meet nexus challenges. These findings have wider impact for the international community of public agencies with socio-environmental remits facing similar nexus pressures and challenges in the 21st century.

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Designing public agencies for 21st century water–energy–food nexus complexity: The case of Natural Resources Wales

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Hejnowicz

2020

Public Policy and Administration

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“…For example, in the UK conservation is now devolved to sub-national governments (NUTS 1 level) and their executive agencies, resulting in legislation and implementation approaches, including e.g. red list assessments, that are specific to England, Boersch-Supan & Robinson 2021 Integrating citizen science data 3 Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland (Bainbridge 2014;Kirsop-Taylor 2019); similarly, in Germany federal conservation legislation provides an overarching legal framework but delegates implementation to the states, and the executive agencies implementing state laws may be devolved further to government regions (NUTS 2 level) or districts (NUTS 3 level) (Rose-Ackerman 1994). There is also a shift from treating conservation and management as jurisdictional issues towards more holistic approaches focussed on the maintenance of healthy ecosystems and ecosystem services at the appropriate spatial scales (Kirsop-Taylor 2019).…”

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Integrating structured and unstructured citizen science data to improve wildlife population monitoring

Boersch‐Supan

Robinson

2021

Preprint

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Accurate and robust population trend assessments are key to successful biodiversity conservation. Citizen science surveys have provided good evidence of biodiversity declines whilst engaging people with them. Citizen scientists are also collecting opportunistic biodiversity records at unprecedented scales, vastly outnumbering records gathered through structured surveys. Opportunistic records exhibit spatio-temporal biases and heterogeneity in observer effort and skill, but their quantity offers a rich source of information. Data integration, the combination of multiple information sources in a common analytical framework, can potentially improve inferences about populations compared to analysing either in isolation. We combine count data from a structured citizen science survey and detection-nondetection data from an opportunistic citizen science programme. Population trends were modelled using dynamic N-mixture models to integrate both data sources. We applied this approach to two different inferential challenges arising from sparse data: (i) the estimation of population trends for an area smaller than a structured survey stratum, and (ii) the estimation of national population trends for a rare but widespread species. In both cases, data integration yielded population trajectories similar to those estimated from structured survey data alone but had higher precision when the density of opportunistic records was high. In some cases this allowed inferences about population trends where indices derived from single data sources were too uncertain to assess change. However, there were differences in the trend magnitude between the integrated and the standard survey model. We show that data integration of large-scale structured and unstructured data is feasible and offers potential to improve national and regional wildlife trend estimates, although a need to independently validate trends remains. Smaller gains are achieved in areas where uptake of opportunistic recording is low. The integration of opportunistic records from volunteer-selected locations alone may therefore not adequately address monitoring gaps for management and policy applications. To achieve the latter, scheme organisers should consider providing incentives for achieving representative coverage of target areas in both structured and unstructured recording schemes.

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The means, motive and opportunity of devolved policy responses to an ecosystem approach

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Designing public agencies for 21st century water–energy–food nexus complexity: The case of Natural Resources Wales

Designing public agencies for 21st century water–energy–food nexus complexity: The case of Natural Resources Wales

Integrating structured and unstructured citizen science data to improve wildlife population monitoring

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