Explaining and Measuring Social-Ecological Pathways: The Case of Global Changes and Water Security

Bolognesi, Thomas; Gerlak, Andrea K.; Giuliani, Gaston

doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0724.v2

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“…Notably, very few policy evaluation researchers have taken up this challenge, and there are no clear frameworks to measure the success and failure of such integrated strategies (Candel 2019). Measuring policy success is a challenge in general (Bolognesi, Gerlak, and Giuliani 2018; McConnell 2010), but it tends to be more complicated for the case of policy integration and coordination. In this instance, there are several interactions among policies and organizations that make it difficult to uncover the precise effects of policies.…”

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Policy Coordination and Integration: A Research Agenda

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Biesbroek

Bolognesi

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Public Administration Review

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Coordinating and integrating different policies and public sector organizations is a major challenge for practitioners and a continuing topic of interest for researchers. This Viewpoint essay argues that research on this topic needs reorientation to provide better insights for practice and theory of policy making, as well as policy implementation. The authors offer four suggestions on how future research could advance: (1) combining existing conceptual and epistemological approaches more systematically; (2) complementing case studies and surveys with large-N analyses and novel research tools and methods; (3) more systematic analysis of the causal mechanisms in policy coordination and integration; and (4) more thorough study of the real-world impact of policy coordination and integration.

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Policy Coordination and Integration: A Research Agenda

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Biesbroek

Bolognesi

et al. 2020

Public Administration Review

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Essential Variables for Environmental Monitoring: What Are the Possible Contributions of Earth Observation Data Cubes?

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Egger

Italiano

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Environmental sustainability is nowadays a major global issue that requires efficient and effective responses from governments. Essential variables (EV) have emerged in different scientific communities as a means to characterize and follow environmental changes through a set of measurements required to support policy evidence. To help track these changes, our planet has been under continuous observation from satellites since 1972. Currently, petabytes of satellite Earth observation (EO) data are freely available. However, the full information potential of EO data has not been yet realized because many big data challenges and complexity barriers hinder their effective use. Consequently, facilitating the production of EVs using the wealth of satellite EO data can be beneficial for environmental monitoring systems. In response to this issue, a comprehensive list of EVs that can take advantage of consistent time-series satellite data has been derived. In addition, a set of use-cases, using an Earth Observation Data Cube (EODC) to process large volumes of satellite data, have been implemented to demonstrate the practical applicability of EODC to produce EVs. The proposed approach has been successfully tested showing that EODC can facilitate the production of EVs at different scales and benefiting from the spatial and temporal dimension of satellite EO data for enhanced environmental monitoring.

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Analyzing Spatial Congruencies and Mismatches between Supply, Demand and Flow of Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development

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Ecosystem services (ESs) are increasingly included into decision-making to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although both concepts consider the interactions between humans and the environment, spatial relationships between ESs and sustainability have been rarely addressed. Therefore, this study aims at analyzing spatial congruencies and mismatches between ESs and sustainability in the greater Alpine region. Using hot spot and overlap analyses, we overlaid maps of supply, demand and flow of eight key ESs with the spatial distribution of sustainability based on 24 indicators. Our results reveal that, in most cases, supply of and demand for ESs are greatly dislocated. These mismatches are reflected also in the spatial distribution of sustainability. In contrast to ES demand hot spots, supply hot spots are generally characterized by high sustainability levels, especially in relation to the environment. However, due to discrepancies in the social and economic dimensions, it cannot be assumed that ES supply hot spots always correspond to high sustainability. Hence, using ES indicators for measuring sustainability provides rather limited insights. We conclude that both concepts should be applied in a complementary way to maximize ecological, social and economic benefits in land management and planning processes.

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Explaining and Measuring Social-Ecological Pathways: The Case of Global Changes and Water Security

Cited by 7 publications

References 60 publications

Policy Coordination and Integration: A Research Agenda

Policy Coordination and Integration: A Research Agenda

Essential Variables for Environmental Monitoring: What Are the Possible Contributions of Earth Observation Data Cubes?

Analyzing Spatial Congruencies and Mismatches between Supply, Demand and Flow of Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development

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