Scale-Sensitive Governance of the Environment.
Title:
Scale-Sensitive Governance of the Environment.
Author:
Padt, Frans.
ISBN:
9781118567128
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (395 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1: Concepts of scale -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Definitions of scale -- 1.3 Scale-sensitive governance of . . . what? -- 1.3.1 Social-ecological systems -- 1.3.2 Social-ecological networks -- 1.3.3 Where systems and networks meet: Heterarchies -- 1.4 Scale as a reality . . . or not? -- 1.4.1 The two 'moments' of scale -- 1.4.2 The social construction of scale -- 1.5 The politics of scale -- 1.6 Acknowledgements -- References -- 2: Incorporating multiple ecological scales into the governance of landscape services -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The social-ecological system at the local scale -- 2.3 Ecological scales and local social-ecological systems -- 2.4 Incorporating the ecological scale hierarchy into social-ecological system decision-making -- 2.4.1 Setting the governance scene -- 2.4.2 To what extent is current science supportive of community-based landscape service management: Are spatial scale levels accounted for? -- 2.4.3 Cooperative adaptation of green infrastructure: A case study in the Netherlands -- 2.5 Discussion and conclusions -- 2.5.1 Why are ecological scale levels not considered in community-based planning research? -- 2.5.2 Is the coordinating role of the higher-level government indispensable? -- 2.5.3 Research agenda -- 2.6 Acknowledgements -- References -- 3: Scale-sensitivity as a governance capability: Observing, acting and enabling -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Scales in monocentric governance -- 3.2.1 Scale-sensitive observations -- 3.2.2 Scale-sensitive acting -- 3.2.3 Enabling scale-sensitivity -- 3.2.4 Illustrative case: Amalgamating the Dutch water boards -- 3.3 Scales in multilevel governance -- 3.3.1 Scale-sensitive observing -- 3.3.2 Scale-sensitive acting -- 3.3.3 Enabling scale-sensitivity.
3.3.4 Illustrative case: The room for the river programme -- 3.4 Scales in adaptive governance -- 3.4.1 Scale-sensitive observations -- 3.4.2 Scale-sensitive actions -- 3.4.3 Enabling scale-sensitivity -- 3.4.4 Illustrative case: Adaptive delta management -- 3.5 The contours of scale-sensitivity as a governance capability -- 3.5.1 Scale-sensitive observing -- 3.5.2 Scale-sensitive action strategies -- 3.5.3 Enabling scale-sensitivity -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- 4: Knowledge of competing claims on natural resources: Toward institutional design and integrative negotiations -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Competing claims approach on natural resources -- 4.3 Types of knowledge in competing claims approaches -- 4.4 Distributive approaches toward competing claims negotiations -- 4.5 Integrative approaches to negotiations on competing claims -- 4.6 Conclusions -- 4.7 Acknowledgements -- References -- 5: The relevance of scale to water governance: An example from Loweswater, UK -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Loweswater -- 5.2.1 Farms and farmers -- 5.2.2 Land owners -- 5.2.3 Government institutions -- 5.3 The Loweswater Care Project (LCP) -- 5.4 The importance of scale at Loweswater -- 5.4.1 The community -- 5.4.2 The institutions -- 5.5 Conclusions -- References -- 6: Multiple-level governance is needed in the social-ecological system of alpine cultural landscapes -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The concepts of SES, resilience and panarchy in the context of a cultural landscape -- 6.3 A mixed method approach -- 6.4 The cultural landscape of the Ledro Valley: Internal dynamics leading to unplanned futures -- 6.5 Discussion and conclusion -- 6.6 Acknowledgements -- References -- 7: Beyond localism: The spatial scale and scaling in energy transitions -- 7.1 Introduction.
7.2 Creating space for the spatial scale and scaling in conceptualizations of sustainability transitions -- 7.3 The governance of sustainability transitions and its spatial dimensions: Two case studies reconsidered -- 7.3.1 (Case 1) The Energy Vision of Murau: A showcase for 'energy autarky' of regions? -- 7.3.2 (Case 2) Freiburg 'Green City': More than PR to compete with other places? -- 7.4 Learning from the cases: Can place-bound particularities and scaling influence sustainability transitions? -- 7.4.1 Can local energy systems deviate from the general energy regime at all? -- 7.5 Conclusions and outlook -- 7.6 Acknowledgements -- References -- 8: Tracing drivers of global environmental change along the governance scale: Methodological challenges and possibilities -- 8.1 What makes environmental issues global? -- 8.2 Methodological challenges in a multilevel analysis -- 8.2.1 The challenge of design -- 8.2.2 The challenge of scope -- 8.2.3 The challenge of data collection -- 8.2.4 The challenge of context diversity -- 8.3 Multilevel analysis of drivers for pesticide problems -- 8.3.1 The design challenge: Analysis in three tiers -- 8.3.2 The scope challenge: Rapid, yet comprehensive -- 8.3.3 The data challenge: Stakeholder identification, papers, and people -- 8.3.4 The diversity challenge: Flexible interview plans and concept definitions -- 8.4 Multilevel drivers for the pesticide problem -- 8.4.1 The global level: Blaming farmers, consumers, governments and multinationals -- 8.4.2 The national level: It is all about farmers knowing or not, and doing or not -- 8.4.3 The local level: Where problems are quite different -- 8.5 Multilevel drivers for multiple problems -- 8.6 Concluding reflections on the multilevel analysis of drivers -- References -- 9: 'Glocal' politics of scale on environmental issues: Climate change, water and forests.
9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 A theoretical framework -- 9.3 Case studies -- 9.3.1 Introduction -- 9.3.2 Climate change -- 9.3.3 Water -- 9.3.4 Forests -- 9.4 Comparative analysis -- 9.5 Conclusions -- 9.6 Acknowledgements -- References -- 10: The politics of cross-level interactions in the jurisdictional scale: The case of natural resource management in the South -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Scaling up and scaling down: Some clarifications -- 10.3 Re-assessing the state in the South -- 10.4 The state and the rescaling processes -- 10.4.1 Scaling down -- 10.4.2 Scaling up -- 10.5 Conclusion -- References -- 11: Rescaling environmental governance: The case of watersheds as scale-sensitive governance? -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Watersheds as rescaling -- 11.2.1 Why choose watersheds? Policy rationales -- 11.2.2 Rescaling at the intersection of three epistemic communities -- 11.3 Understanding the implications of rescaling -- 11.4 Conclusions: Watersheds as everything to everyone? -- 11.5 Acknowledgements -- References -- Legislation -- 12: Urban sustainability pilot projects: Fit or misfit between challenge and solution? -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Scaling urban environmental governance -- 12.3 How pilot projects inspire sustainability transitions -- 12.3.1 The power of best practices -- 12.3.2 Creating support within the city -- 12.3.3 Replication by other cities -- 12.3.4 Scaling up local policies -- 12.4 Urban pilot projects: The way forward? -- 12.5 Conclusion -- References -- 13: Tensions between global-scale and national-scale governance: The strategic use of scale frames to promote sustainable palm oil production in Indonesia -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Scale and scale frames -- 13.3 Do national principles for sustainable palm oil specify or challenge global principles? -- 13.4 The interactive development and strategic use of scale frames.
13.4.1 Scale frame 1: Global private governance of local palm oil production -- 13.4.2 Scale frame 2: Global private governance for global market transformation -- 13.4.3 Counter-scale frame: The Indonesian government is to address an Indonesian problem -- 13.5 Conclusions -- 13.5.1 Wider and practical relevance of scale frames in governance -- 13.6 Acknowledgements -- References -- 14: Rethinking governance of complex commodity systems: Evidence from the Nepali tea value chain -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Conceptualizing scale in commodity systems -- 14.2.1 Research approach -- 14.2.2 A spatial vocabulary -- 14.2.3 Conceptualizing commodity systems -- 14.2.4 Governing commodity systems -- 14.2.5 Context and methods -- 14.3 Case study: Mismatches in the Nepali tea heterarchy -- 14.3.1 A heterarchy of the tea commodity system in Nepal -- 14.3.2 Other scales and elements -- 14.3.3 Governance of the tea commodity system in Nepal -- 14.3.4 Scalar interactions and mismatches in the governance of Nepali tea -- 14.4 Insights into scale in private economic governance -- 14.4.1 Competitiveness -- 14.4.2 Types of governance -- 14.4.3 Politics of scale -- 14.5 Conclusions -- 14.6 Acknowledgements -- References -- 15: An approach to analysing scale-sensitivity and scale-effectiveness of governance in biodiversity conservation -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Scales and biodiversity conservation -- 15.3 Governance mechanisms -- 15.3.1 Command and control mechanisms -- 15.3.2 Planning and management mechanisms -- 15.3.3 Market-oriented mechanisms and economic instruments -- 15.3.4 Collaborative and participatory mechanisms -- 15.4 Scales and real-world biodiversity governance in Europe -- 15.4.1 Governance mechanisms and scales -- 15.4.2 Command and control -- 15.4.3 Planning and management -- 15.4.4 Market-oriented mechanisms and economic instruments.
15.4.5 Collaborative and participatory mechanisms.
Abstract:
Sensitivity to scales is one of the key challenges in environmental governance. Climate change, food production, energy supply, and natural resource management are examples of environmental challenges that stretch across scales and require action at multiple levels. Governance systems are typically ill-equipped for this task due to organisational and jurisdictional specialisation and short-term planning horizons. Further to this, scientific knowledge is fragmented along disciplinary lines and research traditions in academia and research institutions. State-of-the-art, Scale-Sensitive Governance of the Environment addresses these challenges by establishing the foundation for a new, trans-disciplinary research field. It brings together and reframes a variety of disciplinary approaches, using the idea of scales to create a conceptual and methodological basis for scale-sensitive governance of the environment from both a natural and social science perspective. This volume presents new visions, methods and innovative applications of thinking and decision making across scales in space and time to develop a holistic view on the subject. It is unique in providing: F analysis on how spatial, temporal, and governance scales are constructed, politically and scientifically defined, institutionalized in governance practices, and strategically used in policy discourses F details on how current environmental governance practices can be enriched by the use of theory on scale, with specific research themes to show the benefits of recognizing scales in empirical research F insightful case studies drawn from countries in the Americas, Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe, and South and Southeastern Asia, covering a wide range of environmental topics including biodiversity, climate change, commodities (tea and palm oil), cultural landscapes, energy, forestry, natural
resource management, pesticides, urban development, and water management. With its comprehensive coverage of scale and scaling issues and convergence of widely different scientific approaches, this book is essential for environmental scientists, policy makers and planners, also conservation biologists and ecologists who are involved in modeling climate change impacts and sustainability. This reference will also benefit students of environmental studies, and all those who seek a response to the urgent environmental governance challenges for the decades ahead.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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