Umweltpolitik

Aden, Hartmut

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“…Sermons are often the predecessors or supporters of the "harder" instruments, such as sticks and, to a degree, carrots. The underlying logic is the assumption that self-accountable and environmental friendly behavior is only possible if there is an active exchange with citizens [37]. We found several examples of sermons in US stormwater policy.…”

Section: Sermonsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Green Infrastructure through Citizen Stormwater Management: Policy Instruments, Participation and Engagement

Lieberherr

Green²

2018

Sustainability

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As in other industrialized countries, many urban water social-ecological systems in the United States are characterized by frequent discharges of contaminated runoff, catastrophic flooding, and near-complete severance of the hydrologic cycle. Recent advancements in stormwater best management practices aim to push urban water social-ecological systems into a more sustainable regime that reconnects the hydrologic cycle and utilizes ecosystem services, such as infiltration and evapotranspiration, to improve the quality of urban and suburban water bodies. Collectively, these approaches are termed green infrastructure. As a decentralized approach, green infrastructure requires implementation on, as well as access to, property throughout a watershed, which poses particular governance challenges for watersheds where most land is held privately. We argue that green infrastructure on private property has a strong potential for creating a more sustainable regime through Citizen Stormwater Management, a participatory form of governance with strong citizen influence and engagement. We develop a classification scheme to assess policy instruments' degree of government intervention, citizen participation, and engagement. The paper explores how various policy instruments encourage Citizen Stormwater Management across the United States on both public and private property. We then conduct a textual analysis of ten years of publicly available data from Onondaga County, New York (USA) to assess the implementation of applicable policy instruments. Findings indicate that incentive-based (carrots) along with outreach (sermon) policies can play an important role when regulatory instruments (sticks) are lacking.

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Section: Sermonsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Green Infrastructure through Citizen Stormwater Management: Policy Instruments, Participation and Engagement

Lieberherr

Green²

2018

Sustainability

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“…The identified communication structure by the VDA mirrors what has been identified in the literature as interest groups trying to shape public discourse through frames that align with their priorities and preferences, as part of what some authors critique as the neoliberal “New Policy Agenda” (Aden, 2011; Andsager, 2000; Miller & Harkins, 2010). For the VDA, these are frames focusing on economic and mobility impacts as well as positive emission reduction trends.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…It can thereby inform policy communication or be applied by stakeholder groups aiming to maximize their impact. "New Policy Agenda" (Aden, 2011;Andsager, 2000;Miller & Harkins, 2010). For the VDA, these are frames focusing on economic and mobility impacts as well as positive emission reduction trends.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Particularly the scientific legitimization of opposing arguments contributes this. Meanwhile, while the use of litigation by civil society organizations to counterbalance corporate engagement in public opinion formation and policy process has been discussed as providing opportunities for advancing environmental and civil society interests (Aden, 2011), it also creates risks resulting from an over-reliance on NGOs and the legal system to safeguard environmental, health and other rights and liberties (Kamat, 2004). Another risk is a potential increase in polarization and opposition to litigation induced government action, and potential disenfranchisement of a population that has been engaged in a contentious discourse.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For Böcher and Töller (2012) this means that environmental NGOs can now strive toward reducing negative environmental impacts where a legal case can be made, for example regarding health impacts on their members, or theoretically even implications on the nonhuman environment. Various authors identify benefits (e.g., Aden, 2011—environmental NGOs as potential advocates for nature's interests) and issues (e.g., Kamat, 2004—reliance of civil society on NGOs for fighting for civil and other rights as a negative by‐product of the neoliberal “New Policy Agenda”) with this. In practice and for societal discourse this means that NGOs can play an expanded role in publicly negotiating interests for their constituents, alongside other actor groups such as corporations and governments (Kamat, 2004, p. 171), having a significantly increased reach for both public and policy maker outreach relating to legal action and legally required governance responses.…”

Section: Discussion—competing Frames In Public Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

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Communication and urban air quality governance in Germany: Discursive framing by selected national environmental NGOs and the Automotive Industry Association (VDA) and its potential impacts

Cyrus

2023

Env Pol Gov

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It is presented and contrasted through a framing analysis how selected environmental NGOs and the German Automotive Industry Association (VDA) engaged in the national German debate on urban air quality governance during the height of the emission scandal between 2015 and mid‐2019. For this, frames of communication applied to communicate organizational priorities and conceptualizations of air quality governance to the public are discussed and their potential impact on public perception of different approaches to air quality governance assessed. It is shown that the presented frames provide opposing and competing conceptualizations of air quality impacts and related governance propositions, including health, environmental, economic, and regulatory issues. They align with the interests of the communicating actor groups and are supported by selected scientific knowledge. This, it is argued, can be linked to an interest group led capturing of public debate as identified for other politically charged topics, and structurally resembles a public negotiation on urban air quality governance. Such an approach to public discourse, it is argued, can have negative impacts on public engagement and openness to embrace sustainability led governance reforms, as it can reinforce existing attitudes and create opposition to governance change.

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Das Politikfeld Umweltpolitik

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Grunow

2017

Implementation in Politikfeldern

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Umweltpolitik

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Green Infrastructure through Citizen Stormwater Management: Policy Instruments, Participation and Engagement

Green Infrastructure through Citizen Stormwater Management: Policy Instruments, Participation and Engagement

Communication and urban air quality governance in Germany: Discursive framing by selected national environmental NGOs and the Automotive Industry Association (VDA) and its potential impacts

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