“…This may be because some actors may perceive “opening up” the policy domain to additional or alternative perspectives as risking an impasse or stalemate, or as impractical, distracting or time‐hungry (Powell & DiMaggio, ). Others may be heavily invested in existing outcomes they perceive existing institutions provide (Bressers & Rosenbaum, , p. 15; Dovers & Hezri, ). Many studies highlight that institutional path dependencies can resist in‐depth processes of change (Hall, ; Kern, ; March & Olsen, ; Nair & Howlett, , p. 10; Sabatier & Jenkins‐Smith, ; Young et al, ) of the kinds called for in transformative governance.…”
Section: A DI Perspective On Enabling Transformative Governancementioning
Scholarship around questions of climate change adaptation is increasingly concerned with ideas of transformative adaptation and its governance through critical re‐evaluation of beliefs, values and associated institutions. For public policy sectors, the concept of transformative governance brings attention to their capacities for supporting and engaging in such governance. While much adaptation research and practice informs technical and structural understandings of these capacities (e.g., governance arrangements, learning systems and adaptation planning), most of this research (and practice) has ignored less formal, yet equally important dimensions of public administration and governance. Institutional scholarship highlights that dominant norms, beliefs, and philosophical ideas underpin how policy sectors structure their policy responses and engagement in governance. Discursive Institutionalism suggests that examining a sector's dominant discourse can provide insights into these “institutional logics”. This paper therefore argues that understanding a policy sector's institutional logics is a crucial part of working toward enabling transformative governance of adaptation. This argument is developed through a case study of the institutional logics operating in the fire management policy sector of Victoria, Australia, and the potential influence of these logics on that sector's capacities to engage in transformative governance. Findings suggest this sector's institutional logics may currently constrain its capacities to engage in transformative governance and highlight the need for greater attention to socioinstitutional dimensions of public administration to help catalyze transformative governance of (and for) adaptation.
“…This may be because some actors may perceive “opening up” the policy domain to additional or alternative perspectives as risking an impasse or stalemate, or as impractical, distracting or time‐hungry (Powell & DiMaggio, ). Others may be heavily invested in existing outcomes they perceive existing institutions provide (Bressers & Rosenbaum, , p. 15; Dovers & Hezri, ). Many studies highlight that institutional path dependencies can resist in‐depth processes of change (Hall, ; Kern, ; March & Olsen, ; Nair & Howlett, , p. 10; Sabatier & Jenkins‐Smith, ; Young et al, ) of the kinds called for in transformative governance.…”
Section: A DI Perspective On Enabling Transformative Governancementioning
Scholarship around questions of climate change adaptation is increasingly concerned with ideas of transformative adaptation and its governance through critical re‐evaluation of beliefs, values and associated institutions. For public policy sectors, the concept of transformative governance brings attention to their capacities for supporting and engaging in such governance. While much adaptation research and practice informs technical and structural understandings of these capacities (e.g., governance arrangements, learning systems and adaptation planning), most of this research (and practice) has ignored less formal, yet equally important dimensions of public administration and governance. Institutional scholarship highlights that dominant norms, beliefs, and philosophical ideas underpin how policy sectors structure their policy responses and engagement in governance. Discursive Institutionalism suggests that examining a sector's dominant discourse can provide insights into these “institutional logics”. This paper therefore argues that understanding a policy sector's institutional logics is a crucial part of working toward enabling transformative governance of adaptation. This argument is developed through a case study of the institutional logics operating in the fire management policy sector of Victoria, Australia, and the potential influence of these logics on that sector's capacities to engage in transformative governance. Findings suggest this sector's institutional logics may currently constrain its capacities to engage in transformative governance and highlight the need for greater attention to socioinstitutional dimensions of public administration to help catalyze transformative governance of (and for) adaptation.
“…The field of learning is critical to informing environmental research such as the case we have presented here. As Gerlak and others () explain,Environmental issues are a fertile ground for the study of learning, because they are characterized by high levels of uncertainty associated with cross‐scale feedbacks, unclear problem definition and resolution, and diverse policy interest (Bressers & Rosenbaum, ; Folke et al, ). When operating on their own, government agencies, institutions, and communities might not be well placed to deal with such complexity not effectively adapt policy and governance approaches to changing social and ecological conditions (Innes & Booher, ; Newig & Fritsch, ).…”
Increasingly severe wildfires have focused attention on forested watershed vulnerabilities, causing significant changes to policies and governance. We utilized the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) to understand institutional innovations of federal agency-large water provider partnerships in Colorado to protect watersheds through joint planning and funding. Ambiguous problem definition and focusing events were significant aspects of these partnerships. We interviewed individuals in the partnerships, with MSA ideas of how solutions to policy problems develop, and the role of policy entrepreneurs. We found that wildfires served as focusing events, creating space and time for learning, collaboration and new problem framing, increased political attention, and institutional innovation. In this study, windows of opportunity stayed open longer, policy entrepreneurs and agencies played larger roles in communication and coupling streams and the context of fast-moving, unpredictable ecological crises changed responses to issues. Our findings also have implications for broader policy studies and environmental governance scholarship. KEY WORDS: disaster & risk management, governance, innovation, environment 一项关于森林流域治理中制度创新的多源流分析 日益严重的野火灾害已将关注聚焦于森林流域脆弱性，并引起政策和治理方面的显著变化。 我们使用多源流措施(MSA)，以期理解科罗拉多州联邦机构和大型供水商伙伴关系的制度 创新，该创新通过联合计划和资金提供来保护流域。模糊的问题定义和焦点事件曾是伙伴关 系的重要方面。我们就政策问题的解决措施如何发展、政策企业家发挥的作用等相关MSA观 点，采访了伙伴关系中的个人。作者发现，野火作为焦点事件，创造了用于学习、协作、新 问题构建的时空，提高了政治关注和制度创新。本研究中，机会之窗的开启时间更常，政策 企业家和政府机构在传播和源流耦合中发挥了更大的作用，发展迅速、无法预测的生态危机 背景改变了对问题的响应。研究发现对更广范围的政策研究和环境治理学术具有意义。 关键词: 灾害与风险管理, 治理, 创新, 环境
Un análisis de múltiples flujos de innovación institucional en la gobernanza de cuencas forestalesLos incendios forestales cada vez más tumbas han centrado la atención en las vulnerabilidades de las cuevas forestales, lo que ha provocado cambios peligrosos en las políticas y la gobernanza. Específicamente el Enfoque de múltiples corrientes (MSA) para comprender las innovaciones institucionales de las asociaciones de proveedores de agua de grandes agencias federales en Colorado para proteger las cuencas hidrográficas a través de la planificación y financiación conjuntas. La definición ambigua de problemas y los eventos de enfoque fueron aspectos específicos de estas asociaciones. Entrevistamos a personas en las alianzas, con ideas de MSA sobre cómo se resolverán las soluciones a los problemas de política y el papel de los emprendedores de políticas. Descubriendo que los incendios forestales sirvieron como eventos de enfoque, creando espacio y tiempo para el aprendizaje, la colaboración y la formulación de nuevos problemas, mayor atención política e innovación institucional. En este estudio, las ventanas de oportunidad permanecen abiertas por más tiempo, los emprendedores políticos y las agencias juegan un papel más importante en la
“…Governance, as an alternative to 'governing', can be seen as an attempt to answer a trilemma: how to ensure, at the same time, scientific accuracy, policy effectiveness and political legitimacy [Bressers and Rosenbaum, 2000]. As it is well known, the concept of governance refers to 'a new process of governing; or a changed condition of ordered rule; or the new method by which society is governed' [Rhodes, 1996: 652-3].…”
Section: Governance Legitimacy and Effectivenessmentioning
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