Deliberation as a catalyst for reflexive environmental governance

Dryzek, John S.; Pickering, Jonathan

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.09.011

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“…The concept of reflexive governance has been mainly elaborated in three distinct but related strands of the environmental governance literature: the work on transition management (Grin, Rotmans, & Schot, 2010;Jhagroe & Loorbach, 2015), sustainability governance (Newig, Voß, & Monstadt, 2007;Voß et al, 2006) and deliberative democracy for environmental governance (Dryzek & Pickering, 2017). Applications of the concept can be found across a broad range of environmental and sustainability issue areas, with four areas standing out: First, discussions about knowledge governance (Gerritsen, Stuiver, & Termeer, 2013), e.g.…”

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Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue

Feindt

Weiland

2018

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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Elaborated in publications on transition management, sustainability governance and deliberative environmental governance, 'reflexive governance' addresses concerns about social-ecological vulnerabilities, flawed conceptualisations of human-nature relations fragmented governance regimes and conditions for a sustainability transition. Key barriers to reflexive government include unavoidable politics; the influence of broader discursive systems that shape actors' strategic interests; and structural and deliberate limitations to the range of admitted epistemological understandings, normative perspectives and material practices. Against this background, the contributions to the special issue provide novel conceptual linkages between reflexive governance and boundary objects, intercultural dialogue, conflict management heuristics, discourse linguistics, theories of the policy cycle and reflexive law, network and learning theories, and Lasswell's 'developmental constructs'. Based on the contributions, we identify five inherent conceptual tensions of reflexive governance: between the openness of horizontal learning processes and the desired direction towards sustainable development; between reflexive governance as a normative or procedural concept; between expected learning orientations and other, strategic orientations; between governance as a precondition for reflexivity and reflexive learning as a precondition for reorganized governance structures; and between reflexivity as an open-ended, evolutionary process and the need to strategically defend the space for reflexivity against powerful groups with an interest in the status quo.

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Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue

Feindt

Weiland

2018

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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“…Certainly, the turn towards spoke-and-hub organisational modality evidenced the intrinsic organisational reflexivity [62], though the mid-term consequences of this change upon their reflexivity of governance remained a contested issue amongst participants. Austerity has been found to impact negatively upon discursive governance spaces [6,63,64], though this research discerned a tension where austerity was instead precipitating change towards new organisational modalities that instead favoured commercial reflexivity [51] at the costs of discursive capacities and values [63]. This was a tension between austerity-induced marketisation of collaborative environmental governance structures, and the extant governance and management values of collaborative decision making and discursiveness (see [21]).…”

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The Contours of State Retreat from Collaborative Environmental Governance under Austerity

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Although the effects of public austerity have been the subject of a significant literature in recent years, the changing role of the state as a partner in collaborative environmental governance under austerity has received less attention. By employing theories of collaborative governance and state retreat, this paper used a qualitative research design comprised of thirty-two semi-structured interviews within the case study UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in the United Kingdom to address this lacuna. Participants perceived that the austerity period has precipitated negative changes to their extant state-orientated funding regime, which had compelled changes to their organisational structure. Austerity damaged their relationships with the state and perceptions of state legitimacy whilst simultaneously strengthening and straining the relationships between intra-partnership non-state governance actors. This case offers a critical contemporary reflection on normative collaborative environmental governance theory under austerity programmes. These open up questions about the role of the state in wider sustainability transitions.

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“…Further research could also explore how ongoing support from contributor countries and development institutions for fossil fuel production and consumption affects, or is influenced by, fragmentation in climate finance. In addition, research could assess whether the climate finance system has developed-or could develop in future-a reflexive capacity to deliberate on and respond to the degree of fragmentation and complexity in the system (see Dryzek and Pickering 2017).…”

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Special issue: managing fragmentation and complexity in the emerging system of international climate finance

Pickering

Betzold

Skovgaard

2017

Int Environ Agreements

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Deliberation as a catalyst for reflexive environmental governance

Cited by 132 publications

References 43 publications

Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue

Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue

The Contours of State Retreat from Collaborative Environmental Governance under Austerity

Special issue: managing fragmentation and complexity in the emerging system of international climate finance

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