Transnational learning, policy analytical capacity, and environmental policy convergence: Survey results from Canada

Howlett, Michael; Joshi-Koop, Sima

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.10.002

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“…Proper institutional arrangement and a legal framework set by the government are needed for sustainable outcomes (Kassolis, 2007). It is not straightforward to formulate an effective policy framework, and the environmental sector would benefit from transnational communication and policy learning (Howlett & Joshi-Koop, 2011) which supports the transnational approach taken by our study. Ports should take note of these pointers in devising their green port management tools.…”

Section: Environmental Policies and Port Management Toolsmentioning

confidence: 54%

The Greening of Ports: A Comparison of Port Management Tools Used by Leading Ports in Asia and Europe

2014

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From the policy and management perspective, this study aims to investigate the port management tools that port/public authorities have at their disposal and then to analyse to what extent the tools are used to enforce or encourage green port development at functional activities of port operations and development. We conduct an exploratory and comparative review based on two axes: on the one hand, the range of tools available to port authorities (pricing, monitoring and measuring, market access control and environmental standard regulation) and on the other hand, the functional activities in ports (shipping traffic, cargo handling and storage operations, intermodal connection, industrial activities, and port expansion). The situations in the leading ports in Asia and Europe, namely Singapore, Shanghai, Antwerp and Rotterdam are studied and compared, whereby the policies' effectiveness is discussed accordingly. Findings show that the ports are particularly mature in exercising environmental standard regulations which reveals that the enforcement approach is more prevalent. The most focused functional activity is shipping traffic which reflects that the ports are driven by the International Maritime Organisation. The respective port authorities in Antwerp and Rotterdam have a higher level of influence on devising green port policy in comparison to the two Asian ports.

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Section: Environmental Policies and Port Management Toolsmentioning

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The Greening of Ports: A Comparison of Port Management Tools Used by Leading Ports in Asia and Europe

2014

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“…Still others fall in between -for example, many health or housing or transport agencies -who may have high quality data available but may only use it at some times but not others. And finally others may not have access to the data they need even if they are willing and are potentially or actually capable of using it (Howlett and Joshi-Koop 2011;Craft and Howlett 2012b).…”

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“…These studies have joined others in probing the backgrounds and activities of professional policy analysts in government (Bernier and Howlett 2011;Howlett and Newman 2010;Howlett and Wellstead 2011;Howlett and Joshi-Koop 2011); those working for NGOs (Evans and Wellstead 2013); ministerial staffers (Eichbaum and Shaw 2007;Shaw and Eichbaum 2012;Connaughton 2010;Fleischer 2009); policy consultants (Saint-Martin 1998a;1998b;Speers 2007;Perl and White 2002) and many other prominent members of national and sub-national policy advisory systems (Dobuzinskis et al 2007;Halligan 1995;Craft and Howlett 2012a).…”

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Policy formulation, policy advice and policy appraisal: the distribution of analytical tools

Howlett¹,

Tan²,

Migone³

et al. 2015

The Tools of Policy Formulation

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“…In addition, institutional barriers associated with the production of knowledge necessary for adaptation within SFM include how research agendas are constrained by funding agencies and the culture of different research organizations; the (re)production of disciplinary silos within governmental research organizations and academic departments; and, the extent of specialization and collaboration in climate change sciences (Klenk 2009). These kinds of governance and institutional challenges suggest the need for greater policy analytical capacity to foster learning (Howlett and Joshi-Koop 2011); for improved knowledge availability, relevance and flow for decision-making (Brown 2009); and, for better coordination of policy networks between federal, provincial and municipal government levels (Wellstead and Stedman 2007).…”

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Climate change adaptation and sustainable forest management: A proposed reflexive research agenda

Klenk

Adams²,

Bull

et al. 2011

The Forestry Chronicle

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This article is a synthesis of the salient topics discussed in the Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Workshop, held at the University of British Columbia, February 14-16, 2011, and lays out a research agenda based on the recommendations for future research that emerged in the workshop. The proposed research agenda is framed using the theory of reflexive modernization to enable the forest research community to consider how different modes of knowledge production can support adaptation within SFM. The workshop discussions highlighted the importance of considering extreme events and high uncertainty in planning for adaptation within SFM. Participants discussed the utility of climate change modeling and risk assessment for local decision-making. In addition, there was general agreement that adaptive collaborative management could facilitate adaptation within SFM, despite difficulties in implementation. The recommendations for future research that emerged from the workshop focused on climate change-related assessments, modeling techniques, and governance and institutional enablers/barriers to adaptation. This broad research agenda, however, can be approached using different modes of knowledge production, illustrating different orders of reflexivity. Apart from a call for more traditional academic research to improve SFM under climate change, workshop participants referred to the need for participatory research, in which researchers would be embedded in communities and other contexts of application, engaging in a "client-focused" partnership model to produce knowledge that is robust, compelling, legitimate and, above all, locally relevant. It is hoped that this alternative mode of knowledge production would result in a social license and greater political will to accelerate adaptation within SFM.

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Transnational learning, policy analytical capacity, and environmental policy convergence: Survey results from Canada

Cited by 34 publications

References 61 publications

The Greening of Ports: A Comparison of Port Management Tools Used by Leading Ports in Asia and Europe

The Greening of Ports: A Comparison of Port Management Tools Used by Leading Ports in Asia and Europe

Policy formulation, policy advice and policy appraisal: the distribution of analytical tools

Climate change adaptation and sustainable forest management: A proposed reflexive research agenda

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