Collective action across boundaries: Collaborative network initiatives as boundary organizations to improve ecosystem services governance

Sattler, Claudia; Schröter, Barbara

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101452

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“…In Europe, Governance networks have been applied in ecology in eastern Germany [21], renewable energy transition [22], low-carbon energy transitions [23], sustainable energy capacity [24], smart cities [25], climate city networks [26], and brokerage in urban networks [27], urban experimentation [28], resilience in urban policy making [29] and urban freight policymaking [30].…”

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Navigating Governance Networks for Urban Issues: Global Trends and Prospects

Abdul Halim,

Nurasa,

Rusli

et al. 2023

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This study examines the critical role of governance networks in addressing urban issues from a global perspective. We further elucidate the inception of these networks and how they can contribute to resolving the multifaceted challenges in urban issues. We employed a qualitative research method underpinned by an integrated literature review (ILR) approach. ILR, as a research methodology, allows for the critical examination, integration, and synthesis of extant literature, thereby enabling the generation of fresh frameworks and perspectives on the topic at hand. Our findings underscore the need for diverse actors, including government officials, societal figures, and entrepreneurs, to govern these networks and address urban issues. We also discovered that governance networks, by structuring societal dynamics, are systematically influenced by global socioeconomic and political regulatory mechanisms. Their applications span various public sector issues, such as mass media, healthcare, and water governance. The primary limitation of our study lies in the lack of field studies. Despite this, the outcomes offer significant insights into the theoretical concepts of governance networks from different regions, a distinctive contribution to the existing body of knowledge. Keywords: urban issues, governance networks, theoretical concept

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Navigating Governance Networks for Urban Issues: Global Trends and Prospects

Abdul Halim,

Nurasa,

Rusli

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“…In this way, the stakeholders of the coastal environment can establish cross-sectoral cooperative connections for common goals, achieving an overall amplification effect of governance performance achieving “1 + 1 > 2” [ 29 ]. Previous studies have focused on the characteristics of stakeholders and the roles that they should play, and some studies have explored the process or design of frameworks for collaborative governance, based on the implicit pre-supposition that collaborative action will naturally occur [ 21 , 30 ]. However, collaboration among stakeholders does not exist naturally and spontaneously, but depends on certain starting conditions [ 31 ] or driving factors [ 32 ].…”

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Formation Mechanism of a Coastal Zone Environment Collaborative Governance Relationship: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis Based on fsQCA

Wang

Gong

2022

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The coastal zone is an area where terrestrial and marine ecosystems intersect. This region may be subject to outstanding environmental issues, as influenced by many stakeholders. Based on the framework of collaborative governance, the starting conditions for forming a coastal zone environment collaborative governance relationship are proposed as follows: coastal zone environment, balanced level of power and resources, superior-level government participation, and previous cooperation experience. The coastal environmental governance practices of 14 cities along the continental coastal zone of the East China Sea are selected as cases, in order to test the interactions between and influence mechanisms of the starting conditions. As qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), based on set theory and Boolean algebra, is a popular tool to explain complex collaboration situations in small-N cases; and as fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) allows for fine classification of the membership degree (where the condition can be allocated any number between 0 and 1), we use fsQCA to analyze the collaborative governance relationships. The results of the analysis demonstrate that three combination configurations promote the formation of medium–high intensity collaborative governance relationships: high balance level of power and resources × high previous cooperation experience, high pollution of coastal zone environment × high balance level of power and resources × low superior-level government participation, and high pollution of coastal zone environment × high superior-level government participation × high previous cooperation experience. Based on this conclusion, we determine three types of relationship formation modes: wheel-, echo state network-, and umbrella-shaped modes. Notably, under certain conditions, superior-level government participation is not necessary for the formation of a medium–high intensity collaborative governance relationship.

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