This paper aims to understand and illustrate how and to what extent the increasing role and importance of information, informational processes, and information technologies have changed the environmental policies and politics of state institutions. More specifically, how have states tried to find answers to the dilemmas resulting from a growing centrality of informational processes in environmental governance? As such, the paper sets out the contours of what can be labeled informational governance on the environment.
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2006
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 36–62 (27 total)
Niki Frantzeskaki, Jill Slinger, Heleen Vreugdenhil, and Els van Daalen
This article presents the reframing of flood management practices in the light of social-ecological systems governance. It presents an exploratory theoretical analysis of social-ecological systems (SES) governance complemented by insights from case study analysis. It identifies a mismatch between the goals of the underlying ecosystem paradigms and their manifestation in management practice. The Polder Altenheim case study is an illustration of the consequences of flood management practices that do not match their underlying paradigm. The article recommends two institutional arrangements that will allow institutions to increase their capacity to co-evolve with SES dynamics: (a) institutional arrangements to ensure and enable openness in actor participation, and (b) institutional arrangements to enable updating of the management practices in response to SES dynamics.
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 84–98 (15 total)
Racialized Governance
The Production and Destruction of Secure Spaces in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Margit Ystanes and Alexandre Magalhães
dominant conceptualizations of the citizenry, and the destruction of life conditions in favela territories in the name of societal improvement, constitute a form of racialized governance. It is important to note that the racialization of favela territories
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 165–182 (18 total)
Veronica Strang
Environmental management in Australia has recently shifted away from local rural communities into the hands of largely urban environmental and government agencies, sparking an intensifying contest for the control of land and resources between geographically and socially stable communities and more mobile translocal groups. There are major disjunctions between the conceptual models promulgated in this contest. Highly specific, holistic, and integrative cultural paradigms of human-environmental interaction vie with an increasingly dominant technomanagerial environmental model emerging from global discourses and knowledge practices. Categorizing "Nature" as a separate, nonhuman domain, this more cosmopolitan approach fails, intellectually and practically, to integrate social and cultural issues into environmental management. Nevertheless, its proponents are provided with increasing authority by their relationships with wider agencies of governance. Building on long-term ethnographic research in Far North Queensland, this paper explores how local and cosmopolitan environmentalisms are contested in a particular ethnographic context.
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 41–62 (22 total)
Remaking Oceans Governance
Critical Perspectives on Marine Spatial Planning
Luke Fairbanks, Noëlle Boucquey, Lisa M. Campbell, and Sarah Wise
movements. Rather than focus on managing individual sectors such as fishing, shipping, or marine protected areas, MSP seeks to integrate those traditionally disconnected management arrangements through a vision of rational and comprehensive governance
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 122–140 (19 total)
Navigating Shifting Regimes of Ocean Governance
From UNCLOS to Sustainable Development Goal 14
Ana K. Spalding and Ricardo de Ycaza
, reflecting a pattern of intensification of historical ocean uses” ( Juda 2003: 161 ). Growing intensity and diversity of activities in the ocean at a global level triggered the development of a complex ocean governance framework. However, its large
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 5–26 (22 total)
Ludger Helms
While the Federal Republic has been famously characterized as a "grand coalition state," the Merkel government, formed in the after-math of the 2005 federal election, is only the second CDU/CSU-SPD coalition at the federal level since 1949. A comparison of the present administration with the first grand coalition government (1966-1969) reveals a wealth of differences that include some of the basic parameters of governing and governance in Germany, such as the structure of the party system and the overall public climate. Also, the personnel features and patterns of informal coalition governance under Chancellors Angela Merkel and Kurt-Georg Kiesinger display major differences. Arguably the single most important difference between the two administrations, however, relates to the level of public policy, with the Merkel government seeking to reverse some of the key decisions of its historical predecessor. Such u-turn dynamics have been particularly tangible in the field of federal system reform.
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2006
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 47–66 (19 total)
Fragmentation in International Law and Global Governance
A Conceptual Inquiry
Timo Pankakoski and Antto Vihma
Fragmentation has become a key concept in the analysis of international law and global governance in recent years. For many, fragmentation has both positive and negative aspects, but scholars are divided over which aspect is predominant. The
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 22–48 (27 total)
Jeffrey D. Hilmer
Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance by John S. Dryzek
Corinna Mullin and Ian Patel
transitional justice functions to challenge or reproduce dominant expressions of state and transnational power, focusing on three levels of analysis: the transnational level, in particular in the context of global (neo)liberal governance; the state level, in
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 104–124 (21 total)