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Arctic and northern community governance: The need for local planning and design as resilience strategy
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 117, S. 106062
ISSN: 0264-8377
Strategy for the long term: Pressures, counter-pressures and mechanisms in governance
In: Futures, Band 131, S. 102758
Strategy for collectives and common goods
In: Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, Band 128, S. 102716
Taming the boom and the bust? Land use tools for mitigating ups and downs in communities
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 93, S. 104058
ISSN: 0264-8377
Land use tools for tempering boom and bust: Strategy and capacity building in governance
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 93, S. 103994
ISSN: 0264-8377
Steering as Path Creation: Leadership and the Art of Managing Dependencies and Reality Effects
In: Politics and governance, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 369-380
ISSN: 2183-2463
We develop a perspective on steering in governance which understands steering as intended path creation. Inspired by evolutionary governance theory, critical management studies and social systems theory, we argue that steering is shaped and limited by co-evolutions, disallowing for any formulaic approach. In order to illuminate the space for steering in governance, we analyze the interplay between different dependencies. Those dependencies are not just obstacles to path creation, they can also be pointers and assets. The steering discussion is further complicated by always unique sets of couplings between a governance system and its environment. After introducing the ideas of reality effects and governance strategy, we further develop our concept of steering and present it as the management of dependencies (in governance) and reality effects (outside governance) towards path creation. This management is ideally strategic in nature and requires leadership in a new role.
The social, the ecological, and the adaptive. Von Bertalanffy's general systems theory and the adaptive governance of social‐ecological systems
In: Systems research and behavioral science: the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 308-321
ISSN: 1099-1743
AbstractBased on biological insights, Ludwig von Bertalanffy coined general systems theory (GST) and later expanded his perspective, exploring what GST could mean for other disciplines and other types of systems. We make a case for the relevance, or rather, the importance, of GST for coming to a new understanding of the resilience of social‐ecological systems and the possible forms of adaptive governance that might increase such resilience. After analyzing the conceptual structure of the resilience paradigm and of GST, we identify concepts in resilience thinking where GST provides new confirmation or modifies the perspective: complexity, evolution, self‐organization, and adaptation. We discuss post‐Bertalanffy developments in the interdisciplinary and twinned fields of systems theory and complexity studies that can provide bridging concepts between GST and resilience thinking. In conclusion, we emphasize the need for both cognitive and institutional resilience to foster adaptive governance. We highlight the management of couplings between systems and the switching between forms of understanding and forms of organization, where self‐organization and more centralized forms of steering can alternate and combine.
Speculation, planning, and resilience: Case studies from resource-based communities in Western Canada
In: Futures, Band 104, S. 37-46
RESOURCE COMMUNITIES: past legacies and future pathways
In: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
This book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future. Resource communities have complicated relationships with the past, and this makes their relationship with the future, and the future itself, also complicated. The book digs deeply into the myriad legacies left by a history of resource extraction in a community and makes use of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives to understand the complex issues being faced by a range of different communitiesthat are reliant on different types of resources across the world. From coal and gold mining, to fishing towns and logging communities, the book explores the legacies of boom and bust economies, social memory, trauma and identity, the interactions between power and knowledge and the implications for adaptive governance. Balancing conceptual and theoretical understandings with empirical and practical knowledge of resource communities, natural resource use and social-ecological relationships, the book argues that solutions for individual communities need to be embraced in the community and not just in the perspectives of visiting experts. Linking the past, present and futures of resource communities in a new way, the book concludes by providing practical recommendations for breaking open dependencies on the past, including deepening awareness of the social, economic and environmental contexts, establishing strong governance and developing community strategies, plans and policies for the future. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource governance and management, extractive industries, environmental policy, community planning and development, environmental geography and sustainable development, as well as policymakers involved in supporting community development in natural resource-dependent communities across the world.
Combining research methods in policy and governance: taking account of bricolage and discerning limits of modelling and simulation
In: Futures, Band 145, S. 103074
"No time for nonsense!": The organization of learning and its limits in evolving governance
In: Administration & society, Band 54, Heft 7, S. 1211-1225
ISSN: 1552-3039
This essay introduces and frames the contributions to the special issue on learning and co-evolution in governance. It develops the argument that learning, dark learning and non-learning are necessarily entwined in governance, moreover, entwined in a pattern unique to each governance configuration and path. What can be learned collectively for the common good, what kind of knowledge and learning can be strategically used and shamelessly abused, and which forms of knowledge remain invisible, intentionally and unintentionally, emerges in a history of co-evolution of actors and institutions, power and knowledge, in governance. Learning becomes possible in a particular form of management of observation, of transparency and opacity, where contingency is precariously mastered by governance systems expected to provide certainty for communities.
Material dependencies: hidden underpinnings of sustainability transitions
This paper presents a framework for analysing the different ways in which materiality impacts environmental policy and governance. It draws on notions from the wider literature on materiality and integrates relevant insights into a theory on policy and governance. Building on a key distinction between the material and the discursive dimensions of governance, it develops the concepts of material events and material dependencies. Material events bring attention to the linkages between material changes and their observation and interpretation in governance. The concept of material dependencies is useful for analysing the different ways in which materiality structures the evolution of governance systems. The paper ends with some methodological considerations for mapping and analysing material dependencies and suggestions for further research.
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Policy Learning and Adaptation in governance; a Co-evolutionary Perspective
In: Administration & society, Band 54, Heft 7, S. 1226-1254
ISSN: 1552-3039
This paper introduces the concepts and ideas that frame this special issue on co-evolution in governance, and their implications for policy learning and adaptation. It offers a brief overview of co-evolutionary approaches to governance and their elementary connections with systems theories, post-structuralism, institutionalism, and actor-network theory, and explores how they are connected to co-evolution in governance. Co-evolutionary approaches differ from other influential understandings of knowledge and learning in policy and governance. It furthermore presents a typology of learning in governance and systematically discusses how each type is affected by patterns of coevolution in governance.
Reinvention paths and reinvention paradox: Strategic change in Western Newfoundland communities
In: Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, Band 128, S. 102713