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Book Synopsis Does Collaborative Governance Lead to Environmental Improvements? by : Jennifer C. Biddle
Download or read book Does Collaborative Governance Lead to Environmental Improvements? written by Jennifer C. Biddle and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy makers and researchers have long advocated collaborative governance as a means to improve the natural environment. However, determining the effectiveness of collaborative governance as a management strategy for improving environmental outcomes has proven difficult. Addressing this gap has significant bearing on environmental policy as governments at all levels have relied on collaborative governance as a primary way to address complex environmental issues that have not been satisfactorily addressed by conventional regulatory approaches and that are outside the scope of a single agency. Through the empirical assessment of survey data collected from watershed partnerships engaged in collaborative governance and assessments of longitudinal water quality data collected by US Environmental Protection Agency's National Monitoring Program, this study offers early evidence verifying positive relationships between elements of collaborative governance and improved environmental outcomes. In addition, the findings of this study offer empirical evidence linking collaborative outputs with outcomes, providing guidance to public managers when deciding upon useful proxy measures to use when environmental outcome data is unavailable.
Book Synopsis Collaborative Environmental Governance Frameworks by : Timothy Gieseke
Download or read book Collaborative Environmental Governance Frameworks written by Timothy Gieseke and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a practical approach to understanding and describing collaborative governance for resolving environmental problems. It introduces a new collaborative governance assessment model and recognizes that collaborations are a natural result of organizations converging around complex issues. Rather than identifying actors by their type of organization, the actors are identified by the type of role they play. This approach is aligned with how individuals and organizations interact in practice, and their dependance on collaborations to solve emerging environmental problems. The book discusses real cases with governance issues and creates new frameworks for collaborations. Features: Addresses communities at all levels and scales that are gravitating toward collaborations to solve their environmental issues. Prepares and enables individuals to participate in collaborative governance and design collaborative governance frameworks. Introduces the first simplified and standardized model to assess governance using governance actors and styles. Explains governance in simple terms and builds governance frameworks from the individual’s perspective; the smallest, viable unit of governance in a collaboration. Describes "tools of convergence" for collaborative leaders to organize and align activities to create shared-governance outcomes and outputs.
Book Synopsis The Challenges of Collaboration in Environmental Governance by : Richard D. Margerum
Download or read book The Challenges of Collaboration in Environmental Governance written by Richard D. Margerum and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaborative approaches to governance are being used to address some of the most difficult environmental issues across the world, but there is limited focus on the challenges of practice. Leading scholars from the United States, Europe and Australia explore the theory and practice in a range of contexts, highlighting the lessons from practice, the potential limitations of collaboration and the potential strategies for addressing these challenges.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy by : Sheldon Kamieniecki
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy written by Sheldon Kamieniecki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the Nixon administration, environmental policy in the United States was rudimentary at best. Since then, it has evolved into one of the primary concerns of governmental policy from the federal to the local level. As scientific expertise on the environment rapidly developed, Americans became more aware of the growing environmental crisis that surrounded them. Practical solutions for mitigating various aspects of the crisis - air pollution, water pollution, chemical waste dumping, strip mining, and later global warming - became politically popular, and the government responded by gradually erecting a vast regulatory apparatus to address the issue. Today, politicians regard environmental policy as one of the most pressing issues they face. The Obama administration has identified the renewable energy sector as a key driver of economic growth, and Congress is in the process of passing a bill to reduce global warming that will be one of the most important environmental policy acts in decades. The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy will be a state-of-the-art work on all aspects of environmental policy in America. Over the past half century, America has been the world's leading emitter of global warming gases. However, environmental policy is not simply a national issue. It is a global issue, and the explosive growth of Asian countries like China and India mean that policy will have to be coordinated at the international level. The book will therefore focus not only on the U.S., but on the increasing importance of global policies and issues on American regulatory efforts. This is a topic that will only grow in importance in the coming years, and this will serve as an authoritative guide to any scholar interested in the issue.
Book Synopsis The New Environmental Governance by : Cameron Holley
Download or read book The New Environmental Governance written by Cameron Holley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and profoundly new way of governing environmental problems is palpable around the globe and aims to overcome the limitations of the interventionist state and its market alternative to offer more effective and legitimate solutions to today's most pressing environmental problems. The 'new environmental governance' (NEG) emphasises a host of novel characteristics including participation, collaboration, deliberation, learning and adaptation and 'new' forms of accountability. While these unique features have generated significant praise from legal and governance scholars, there have been very few systematic evaluations of NEG in practice, and it is still unclear whether NEG will in fact 'work', and if so, when and how. This book offers one of the most rigorous research investigations into cutting edge trends in environmental governance to date. Focusing its inquiry around some of the most central, controversial and/or under researched characteristics of NEG, the book offers fresh insights into the conditions under which we can best achieve successful collaboration, effective learning and adaptation, meaningful participatory and deliberative governance and effective forms of accountability. The book synthesizes its findings to identify seven key pillars of 'good' NEG that are central to its success and will provide useful guidance for policymakers and scholars seeking to apply new governance to a wide range of environmental and non-environmental policy contexts. The book also advances our understanding of State governance and will be a valuable reference for scholars, researchers and students working in law and regulation studies - especially in the field of environmental law.
Book Synopsis Collaborative Governance Regimes by : Kirk Emerson
Download or read book Collaborative Governance Regimes written by Kirk Emerson and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether the goal is building a local park or developing disaster response models, collaborative governance is changing the way public agencies at the local, regional, and national levels are working with each other and with key partners in the nonprofit and private sectors. While the academic literature has spawned numerous case studies and context- or policy-specific models for collaboration, the growth of these innovative collaborative governance systems has outpaced the scholarship needed to define it. Collaborative Governance Regimes breaks new conceptual and practical ground by presenting an integrative framework for working across boundaries to solve shared problems, a typology for understanding variations among collaborative governance regimes, and an approach for assessing both process and productivity performance. This book draws on diverse literatures and uses rich case illustrations to inform scholars and practitioners about collaborative governance regimes and to provide guidance for designing, managing, and studying such endeavors in the future. Collaborative Governance Regimes will be of special interest to scholars and researchers in public administration, public policy, and political science who want a framework for theory building, yet the book is also accessible enough for students and practitioners.
Book Synopsis Collaborative Environmental Management by : Tomas M. Koontz
Download or read book Collaborative Environmental Management written by Tomas M. Koontz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether the stakeholders include public, nonprofit, or exclusively private participants, collaboration is increasingly favored over regulatory enforcement or litigation as a means to settle environmental conflicts. At the urging of citizens, nongovernmental organizations, industry, and individuals within their own institutions, government officials at all levels have been experimenting with collaboration in a wide variety of contexts. Yet questions remain about the best way to ensure that government involvement will be constructive -- that is will support collaboration, rather than introduce barriers. The goal of this work is to analyze data from a variety of cases to explain how the different roles government plays in collaborative environmental management lead to different processes and outcomes. Looking at examples where government has acted to lead, encourage, or follow in the process of collaboration, they apply their new theoretical framework to cases involving the management of watersheds, rivers, and estuaries to farmland, animal habitats, and forests. Finding that there is no "best" role for government; the authors are nonetheless able make important observations about when and where collaborative environmental management is likely to be effective
Book Synopsis Collaborating for People and Nature by : Nicola Ulibarri
Download or read book Collaborating for People and Nature written by Nicola Ulibarri and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation evaluates the environmental benefits of collaborative governance, an increasingly common practice in which government and non-state actors share decision-making responsibility in an attempt to make policy decisions more democratic and effective. Despite collaboration's widespread use in environmental management, evidence for its impact on the resources managed is inconclusive. I use the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's process for licensing hydropower facilities in the US--a five-year process in which an electrical utility, federal and state agencies, tribes, local governments, and non-governmental organizations work jointly to develop the terms of an operating license--as a case to test whether and how varied levels of collaboration affect the environmental quality of licenses. Using a participant survey, document analysis, and process tracing, I find that increased collaboration improved the licenses' environmental quality and implementability, suggesting that collaboration does improve environmental management. The dissertation also considers the mechanism--why collaboration has an effect. I identify that face-to-face deliberation and negotiation most strongly affect environmental quality, providing critical knowledge for the design of collaborative processes. Lastly, the dissertation demonstrates the value of mixing methods to evaluate collaboration, as using multiple data sources and research designs validated my findings and provided a more holistic view of how collaboration works.
Book Synopsis Participation for Effective Environmental Governance by : Elisa Kochskämper
Download or read book Participation for Effective Environmental Governance written by Elisa Kochskämper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does participatory governance benefit the environment? The European Water Framework Directive (WFD), which came into force in 2000 with the aim of revolutionizing European water governance, mandates participatory river basin management planning across the European Union. The belief of European policymakers and the European Commission is that participation will deliver better policy outputs and implementation. This book examines a range of approaches to participatory river basin management planning, and considers whether and how participation impacted on the environmental standard of planning documents, quality of implementation, and social outcomes. It draws on evidence from WFD implementation in eight case studies from Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom on the basis of a matched comparative case study design. The Directive sets common timeframes and procedural requirements, which provides a perfect test-bed and unique opportunity to study the effects of participation on implementation and outcomes in comparative perspective.
Book Synopsis Decision Making for the Environment by : National Research Council
Download or read book Decision Making for the Environment written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growing number, complexity, and importance of environmental problems come demands to include a full range of intellectual disciplines and scholarly traditions to help define and eventually manage such problems more effectively. Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities is the result of a 2-year effort by 12 social and behavioral scientists, scholars, and practitioners. The report sets research priorities for the social and behavioral sciences as they relate to several different kinds of environmental problems.
Book Synopsis Collaborative Governance Regimes by : Kirk Emerson
Download or read book Collaborative Governance Regimes written by Kirk Emerson and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether the goal is building a local park or developing disaster response models, collaborative governance is changing the way public agencies at the local, regional, and national levels are working with each other and with key partners in the nonprofit and private sectors. While the academic literature has spawned numerous case studies and context- or policy-specific models for collaboration, the growth of these innovative collaborative governance systems has outpaced the scholarship needed to define it. Collaborative Governance Regimes breaks new conceptual and practical ground by presenting an integrative framework for working across boundaries to solve shared problems, a typology for understanding variations among collaborative governance regimes, and an approach for assessing both process and productivity performance. This book draws on diverse literatures and uses rich case illustrations to inform scholars and practitioners about collaborative governance regimes and to provide guidance for designing, managing, and studying such endeavors in the future. Collaborative Governance Regimes will be of special interest to scholars and researchers in public administration, public policy, and political science who want a framework for theory building, yet the book is also accessible enough for students and practitioners.
Book Synopsis Collaborative Governance Primer by : James Agbodzakey
Download or read book Collaborative Governance Primer written by James Agbodzakey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How Does Collaborative Governance Scale? by : Chris Ansell
Download or read book How Does Collaborative Governance Scale? written by Chris Ansell and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scale is an overlooked issue in the research on interactive governance. This book takes up the important task of investigating the scalar dimensions of collaborative governance in networks, partnerships, and other interactive arenas and explores the challenges of operating at a single scale, across or at multiple scales and of moving between scales. First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, the volume explores the role of scale and scaling in a wide range of policy areas, including employment policy, water management, transportation planning, public health, university governance, artistic markets, child welfare and humanitarian relief. Cases are drawn from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America and span all levels from local to global. Together, the theoretical framework and the empirical case studies sensitize us to the tensions that arise between scales of governance and to the challenges of shifting from one scale of governance to another.
Book Synopsis Essays on Determinants and Outcomes of Collaborative Governance in the Field of Environmental Management by : Yixin Liu
Download or read book Essays on Determinants and Outcomes of Collaborative Governance in the Field of Environmental Management written by Yixin Liu and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do public organizations and communities collaborate with each other? And what are the social and environmental outcomes of collaborative governance? This dissertation develops three essays to answer both questions. The first essay applies a conjoint experiment to investigate the determinants of interlocal collaboration decisions of U.S. municipal officials. This research extends multiple organizational network theories to organizational decision makers. The findings confirm these theories and offer new insights. The second essay explores the effects of trust in government on citizens' perceived collaborative governance and their willingness to coproduce. Using randomly assigned government integrity information as the instrumental variable of trust, the results reveal complex relations of citizen-state interactions. The third essay examines the outcomes of intergovernmental collaboration in water pollution control in China. Using the water quality panel data with the synthetic control method, this study finds that the mandated collaborative governance model effectively reduced the level of water pollution in an inter-jurisdictional river. Overall, this dissertation explores the theory of collaboration from its initial motivation to its final outcomes. The utilization of various innovative causal identification methods moves the research of collaborative governance a little step forward.
Book Synopsis Collaborative Governance: A New Paradigm Shift by : Gedifew Yigzaw
Download or read book Collaborative Governance: A New Paradigm Shift written by Gedifew Yigzaw and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature Review from the year 2020 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Miscellaneous, Bahir Dar University, language: English, abstract: In this 21st century, collaborative governance has got great attention to resolve socio-economic problems and assure sustainable development goals. It is a new form of governance in which multi-stakeholders, such as the public agencies, private sectors, civil society organizations and international public organizations are working together build trust in government, resolve societal challenges, assure economic prosperity and development, and bring institutional transformation. This book chapter has tried to describe the theoretical and conceptual perspectives of collaborative governance. As it has described in this volume, the author believed that giving some insights on the collaborative governance; conceptual understanding, its nexus with development, and measurement parameters for checking its effectiveness, could produce a theoretical and conceptual asset for the other authors who want to make an in-depth investigation on the areas of governance.
Book Synopsis Collaborative Governance by : John D. Donahue
Download or read book Collaborative Governance written by John D. Donahue and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How government can forge dynamic public-private partnerships All too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions. Schools fall short of the mark while roads and bridges fall into disrepair. Health care costs too much and delivers too little. Budgets bleed red ink as the cost of services citizens want outstrips the taxes they are willing to pay. Collaborative Governance is the first book to offer solutions by demonstrating how government at every level can engage the private sector to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems and achieve public goals more effectively. John Donahue and Richard Zeckhauser show how the public sector can harness private expertise to bolster productivity, capture information, and augment resources. The authors explain how private engagement in public missions—rightly structured and skillfully managed—is not so much an alternative to government as the way smart government ought to operate. The key is to carefully and strategically grant discretion to private entities, whether for-profit or nonprofit, in ways that simultaneously motivate and empower them to create public value. Drawing on a host of real-world examples-including charter schools, job training, and the resurrection of New York's Central Park—they show how, when, and why collaboration works, and also under what circumstances it doesn't. Collaborative Governance reveals how the collaborative approach can be used to tap the resourcefulness and entrepreneurship of the private sector, and improvise fresh, flexible solutions to today's most pressing public challenges.
Book Synopsis Aging Gracefully? Examining the Conditions for Sustaining Successful Collaboration in Environmental Law and Governance by : Cameron Holley
Download or read book Aging Gracefully? Examining the Conditions for Sustaining Successful Collaboration in Environmental Law and Governance written by Cameron Holley and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaboration is quickly becoming an established paradigm in environmental law and governance. This article examines an important aspect of collaborative processes that remains largely overlooked by empirical researchers: the challenges of sustaining collaboration. Drawing on over 80 interviews, the article explores the maintenance and sustainability of collaboration in practice by empirically examining three of the most innovative collaborative governance “experiments” in Australia: Environment Improvement Plans, Neighbourhood Environment Improvement Plans and Regional Natural Resource Management. While each case throws up some different issues, a comparison between them provides insights into two common and interrelated challenges for the survival of collaboration, namely maintaining the involvement of volunteers and gaining adequate support and funding. Important empirically based lessons and recommendations are made in the final section of the article with implications for both policy makers and theorists who are concerned with ensuring collaborations can “age gracefully” as an effective “niche” in the environmental law and governance landscape.
