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The politics of numbers in forest and climate change policies in Australia and the UK
In: Environmental science & policy, Volume 35, p. 57-66
ISSN: 1462-9011
Governing cities reflexively—The biocultural diversity concept as an alternative to ecosystem services
In: Environmental science & policy, Volume 62, p. 7-13
ISSN: 1462-9011
Landscape governance as policy integration 'from below': A case of displaced and contained political conflict in the Netherlands
In: Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, Volume 34, Issue 3, p. 448-462
ISSN: 1472-3425
Agrienvironmental schemes (AES) have been a predominant manifestation of environmental policy Integration in the EU. However, rather than strictly following formal AES policy, farmers across Europe have taken various other initiatives to integrate environmental and agricultural practices. Mostly, these integrative initiatives were based on dynamic actor networks at various levels, responding to local problems and challenges. Compared with situations where, from the top down, one (mostly weaker) policy domain is integrated into another, the kind of integration taking place in these examples may be called more 'fundamental'. Here, integration is already embedded in the practical outcomes envisioned in specific places. The parts of the outcome require each other. However, this fundamental form of integration may render problems at other levels and sectors of governance. In this paper we present a case study of an initiative called Farming for Nature. The initiative aimed to integrate farming and nature more thoroughly than EU and national policies and incorporated some important other characteristics of the area, such as its water dynamics and relationships with the urban environment. However, it also involved some key differences from mainstream policy; and although it resonated with EU support for participative governance, these differences rendered a lengthy process towards implementation lasting more than half a decade. We use the concept of 'landscape governance'—operationalized as the interplay of discourses, institutional practices, and natural–spatial conditions—to understand the politics of scale involved when mainstream government policies and local integrative initiatives meet. Particular attention is paid to how the local ideas toned down some of their integrative ingredients in order to comply with mainstream sectoral policy discourse. We find that the type of landscape governance implemented shaped the initiatives into a form that contributed to their implementation, but simultaneously displaced and contained political conflict in a way that prevented public debate.
Governance, Scale and the Environment: The Importance of Recognizing Knowledge Claims in Transdisciplinary Arenas
In: Ecology and society: E&S ; a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, Volume 16, Issue 1
ISSN: 1708-3087
Climate change and deforestation: The evolution of an intersecting policy domain
In: Environmental science & policy, Volume 35, p. 1-11
ISSN: 1462-9011
Prompting transdisciplinary research: Promising futures for using the performance metaphor in research
In: Futures, Volume 65, p. 175-184
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Landscape Approaches:A State-of-the-Art Review
In: Arts , B , Buizer , M , Horlings , L , Ingram , V , van Oosten , C & Opdam , P 2017 , ' Landscape Approaches : A State-of-the-Art Review ' , Annual Review of Environment and Resources , vol. 42 , pp. 439-463 . https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102016-060932 ; ISSN:1543-5938
Landscape approaches have become en vogue in the past couple of decades. Originating from nineteenth-century landscape geography, this renewed popularity since the 1980s is fueled by debates on-among others-nature conservation, landscape restoration, ecosystem services, competing claims on land and resources, sectorial land-use policies, sustainable development, and sense of place. This review illuminates the ambition and potential of these landscape approaches for interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaboration. To show this, we work with a T-shaped interdisciplinary model. After a short history of the landscape approaches, we dive into their key dimensions-from ecology to economics and culture to politics. Thereafter, we bring these dimensions together again and reflect on the integrative potential of landscape approaches for offering common ground to various disciplines and sectors. Two examples of applications are also dealt with: a landscape governance framework and a landscape capability framework.
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A Critical Evaluation of Interventions to Progress Transdisciplinary Research
In: Society and natural resources, Volume 28, Issue 6, p. 670-681
ISSN: 1521-0723