A Narrative Policy Approach to Environmental Conservation

Lawton, Ricky N.; Rudd, Murray A.

doi:10.1007/s13280-014-0497-8

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“…Pierce, Smith‐Walter, and Peterson () found 19 peer‐reviewed articles and book chapters that applied the NPF, with 17 primarily focused on environmental topics, such as climate change, hydraulic fracturing, restoration in the Florida everglades, land management, recycling, and wind energy (see also Jones ; Jones and Song ). More recent publications have applied the NPF to an increasing diversity of topics and geographic contexts, including city planning in Korea (Park ), the translation of conservation science into policy in the United Kingdom (Lawton and Rudd ), and education policy in Thailand (Nakyam ). Despite the growing scholarship on the theory and practice of the NPF, it has been used only minimally to analyze the narratives around hazards and disasters (Crow et al .…”

Section: Applying the Narrative Policy Framework In Disaster Policy Cmentioning

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A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis of Wildfire Policy Discussions in Two Colorado Communities

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Whether due to climate change, human development in risk-prone areas, or other factors contributing to vulnerability, communities globally face risk from hazards that can lead to disasters that impact human livelihoods. Some disasters become focusing events that can catalyze a search for solutions to the policy problems uncovered by disaster. The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) was developed to provide policy scholars with the tools to analyze the role of narratives in such policy debates. The NPF, however, has not been systematically applied to narratives surrounding hazards and disasters. This study examines media coverage from two cases of catastrophic wildfire in Colorado, the United States, to understand the evolving policy narratives over time, with specific attention to three key NPF variables: policy problems, solutions, and characters. Findings indicate that narratives concerning disasters are different than other policy issues in ways that are vital to understand as scholars apply and refine the NPF.

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Section: Applying the Narrative Policy Framework In Disaster Policy Cmentioning

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A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis of Wildfire Policy Discussions in Two Colorado Communities

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“…Additional information was collected on demographic and professional characteristics of respondents. An experimental series of ratings regarding respondents' attitudes toward knowledge production and cooperation between scientists and policy-makers (Lawton and Rudd, 2014) was also collected but again, for brevity, is not reported here. The survey (Data Sheet 1 in the Supplementary Material) was approved in February 2014 by the Environment Department's Research Ethics Committee at University of York.…”

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Scientists' perspectives on global ocean research priorities

Rudd

2014

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Diverse natural and social science research is needed to support policies to recover and sustain healthy oceans. While a wide variety of expert-led prioritization initiatives have identified research themes and priorities at national and regional scale, over the past several years there has also been a surge in the number of scanning exercises that have identified important environmental research questions and issues "from the bottom-up." From those questions, winnowed from thousands of contributions by scientists and policy-makers around the world who participated in terrestrial, aquatic and domain-specific horizon scanning and big question exercises, I identified 657 research questions potentially important for informing decisions regarding ocean governance and sustainability. These were distilled to a short list of 67 distinctive research questions that, in an internet survey, were ranked by 2179 scientists from 94 countries. Five of the top 10 research priorities were shared by respondents globally. Despite significant differences between physical and ecological scientists' priorities regarding specific research questions, they shared seven common priorities among their top 10. Social scientists' priorities were, however, much different, highlighting their research focus on managerial solutions to ocean challenges and questions regarding the role of human behavior and values in attaining ocean sustainability. The results from this survey provide a comprehensive and timely assessment of current ocean research priorities among research-active scientists but highlight potential challenges in stimulating crossdisciplinary research. As ocean and coastal research necessarily becomes more transdisciplinary to address complex ocean challenges, it will be critical for scientists and research funders to understand how scientists from different disciplines and regions might collaborate and strengthen the overall evidence base for ocean governance.

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“…Policy entrepreneurs are catalysts for policy innovation (Roberts & King, ); they are subjects who discover new avenues for policy‐making (Baumgartner & Jones, ). Finally, according to the policy narrative framework, policy entrepreneurs can represent a specific character type in charge of acting as champions of new ideas and empirical evidence on specific policy issues (Lawton & Rudd, ) or in charge of socially constructing a focusing event and persuading “the public that the event they have created demonstrates the need for the specific solution of which they are presenting” (McBeth, Clemons, Husmann, Kusko & Gaarden, , p. 147).…”

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Policy dynamics and types of agency: From individual to collective patterns of action

Capano

Galanti

2018

European Policy Analysis

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Despite the relevance of structures and constraints to the outcomes of policy‐making, agency emerges as a key aspect in accounting for policy dynamics. Indeed, agency is a concept that may embrace different components according to their empirical reference and policy context. In policy studies, different agents are conceptualized to be relevant in policy‐making, but they address the issues of similar individuals who randomly jump into the policy process to make a specific contribution. This paper proposes to de‐personalize agency in policy dynamics by arguing that the different types of agents can be attributed to specific patterns of action and that related tasks are a necessary element of stability and change in policy dynamics. Thus, we propose three types of patterns—entrepreneurship, brokerage, and leadership—and we show how the use of these concepts can help to better order, describe, and grasp agency in policy dynamics.

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A Narrative Policy Approach to Environmental Conservation

Cited by 27 publications

References 40 publications

A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis of Wildfire Policy Discussions in Two Colorado Communities

A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis of Wildfire Policy Discussions in Two Colorado Communities

Scientists' perspectives on global ocean research priorities

Policy dynamics and types of agency: From individual to collective patterns of action

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