Learning from the past; changing perspectives on river management in the Netherlands

Offermans, Astrid; Cörvers, Ron

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2011.10.003

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“…They stress that actors with polarized perspectives may by means of shared strategies, or storylines about problems and solutions, realize policy change without fully agreeing or understanding each other. Offermans and Cörvers [101] even argue that such shared strategies can lead to socially robust action, e.g., policy plans or strategies, which is able to preserve support despite changing views and circumstances.…”

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Climate Adaptation in Swedish Forestry: Exploring the Debate and Policy Process, 1990–2012

Ulmanen¹,

Swartling

Wallgren

2015

Forests

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This paper explores how climate change adaptation concerns were integrated into the Swedish forestry debate and policy process during the period of 1990-2012, and draws lessons on barriers and opportunities identified in this process. Using a framework focusing on "advocacy coalitions", we analyze how the adaptation debate in the forestry sector evolved over the period; who the main advocates for and against adaptation were; and which main arguments and processes affected the debate and policy. The results show that academics advocating climate change adaptation, aided by outside influences, such as political pressure for adaptation responses and the negative impacts of the 2005 storm Gudrun, contributed to an increased general awareness and understanding of adaptation issues amongst forestry stakeholders. Nonetheless, the strong dominance of actors arguing for increased forest production and the limited number and relatively poor organization of adaptation advocates have acted as barriers to mainstreaming adaptation concerns into forestry policy and practice. The dominant coalitions and their values have also determined the direction of debate and policy. The main conclusions for policymakers aiming to further this integration process are the importance of stimulating adaptation coalitions and the value of creating arenas for multiple stakeholder learning about adaptation. OPEN ACCESSForests 2015, 6 709

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Climate Adaptation in Swedish Forestry: Exploring the Debate and Policy Process, 1990–2012

Ulmanen¹,

Swartling

Wallgren

2015

Forests

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“…Note that, in this perspective scoring table, the fatalist perspective was not included. For water managers, the fatalist perspective was considered irrelevant, given the 'passive' nature of this perspective and the lack of preference for a specific management style (Offermans and Cörvers, 2012). Before the start of a game session, the participants were asked to fill out the (randomized) perspective scoring table.…”

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“…Cells contain perspectivespecific beliefs and corresponding statements. AfterOffermans and Cörvers (2012) andValkering et al (2012). These authors call this a perspective map.…”

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Measuring Social Learning in Participatory Approaches to Natural Resource Management

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The role of social learning as a governance mechanism in natural resource management has been frequently highlighted, but progress in finding evidence for this role and gaining insight into the conditions that promote it are hampered by the lack of operational definitions of social learning and practical methods to measure it. In this article, we present a simple and flexible method to measure social learning, whether it has occurred and to what extent, among stakeholders in natural resource management. The method yields measurements of social learning that are visual, quantitative and qualitative. First, we elaborate our definition of social learning as a convergence of perspectives and outline how stakeholder perspectives in natural resource management can be described with Cultural Theory. Next, we provide a generic description of the method, followed by two examples illustrating its application to the domains of water and land management. Finally, we discuss relative strengths and weaknesses of the method and how it could be applied to improve our understanding of factors that contribute to social learning.

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“…Six equally long search strings based on key words representing general characteristics of the CT perspectives were used to code the texts. The words in the search strings (see table A6.1 in the Appendix) were chosen based on literature research conducted in earlier studies and the perspectives map (table 6.1) as applied in (Beumer, 2014;Beumer & Martens, 2010De Kraker et al, 2014;Offermans & Cörvers, 2012;Offermans, Haasnoot, & Valkering, 2011). Applying the search strings to the text, we count how often a perspective shows up in the documents.…”

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“…Following Beumer (2014); Beumer andMartens (2010, 2013);De Kraker, Kuijs, Cörvers, and Offermans (2014); Offermans and Cörvers (2012) we conduct a CT based content analysis on eleven reports published by organizations in the field of global governance. We believe documents by major global organizations allow to analyze the current distribution of perspectives in globalization.…”

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Learning from the past; changing perspectives on river management in the Netherlands

Cited by 19 publications

References 13 publications

Climate Adaptation in Swedish Forestry: Exploring the Debate and Policy Process, 1990–2012

Climate Adaptation in Swedish Forestry: Exploring the Debate and Policy Process, 1990–2012

Measuring Social Learning in Participatory Approaches to Natural Resource Management

Connectedness in times of ecological overshoot

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