Prospects for Local Co-Governance

Somerville, Peter; Haines, Nathan

doi:10.1080/03003930701770488

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“…In total, 29 stakeholders were interviewed with different background and experiences in inter-local flood risk management co-operations in Austria and comprised a mix of public authorities, other relevant stakeholders including community representatives and academics. The selection process focused on the involved key decision-makers (national, regional and local level) from the case studies (Somerville and Haines 2008;Kramer and Revilla Diez 2012). The selection processes of the interviewees were based on networks, recommendations from other interviewees and academics and especially from newspaper articles, academic journals and internet websites.…”

Section: Methods and Case Studies Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolving inter-regional co-operation in flood risk management: distances and types of partnership approaches in Austria

2015

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Flood risk management and policy in Europe are changing, so the role of local and catchment-wide flood risk management plans is now key contemporary issues in flood policy. A new policy agenda is to enhance inter-local solutions instead of local flood alleviation schemes. This paper analyses the new role of those local authorities and stakeholders in flood risk management as well as how the nature of the partnerships is established and operated, focusing especially on the main barriers and challenges. This paper examines catchment-based flood risk management in Austria. Catchment-based flood risk management was analysed in three different Austrian regions (Aist in Upper Austria, Triesting-Tal in Lower Austria and Ill-Walgau in Vorarlberg). The current functions of a partnership approach in flood risk prevention lie within the selection of sites for conservation of regionally important retention areas, harmonising spatial planning instruments and awareness-raising for protective measures on an inter-local level. The empirical results are currently characterised by a lack of sufficient co-operation between the members as well as with the regional authorities. The three case studies show different backgrounds and developments. The results show that the inter-local co-operation process is in no cases fully achieved. Some of the case studies show a higher integration in one field than others.

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Evolving inter-regional co-operation in flood risk management: distances and types of partnership approaches in Austria

2015

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“…This manner of CPR governance is a legacy of communism, in which the centralized state apparatus gained in power and importance. An alternative to this kind of governance is contemporary foreign models of complex CPR governance, based on various concepts such as co-governance (Somerville & Haines, 2008), multi-actor governance (Schut et al, 2014), and multilevel governance (Hooghe & Marks, 2003). The essence of these concepts is a mutual formation and representation of various communities to introduce more efficient policies concerning CPR governance.…”

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Public goods, common-pool resources, and the commons: The influence of historical legacy on modern perceptions in Slovenia as a transitional society

Hribar¹,

Kozina²,

Bole³

et al. 2018

Urbani izziv

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This article aims to study and clearly define the terms public good, common-pool resources, and the commons. Using path dependency analysis, interviews, and workshops among the general public and experts, we highlight the perception of public goods and the commons in Slovenia as a transitional society. The analysis reveals that the general public's understanding of these terms is still strongly influenced by communist socialist-era emphasis on social justice, equality, and access to goods for everyone, which can be at odds with the right to private property. Inadequate governance of goods that are considered public goods, but are in fact common-pool resources, can lead to conflicts and degradation of common-pool resources, which results in the loss of advantages providing wellbeing. Because people's lives depend on subtractable natural resources, it is necessary to raise awareness about them among the general public and professional community, emphasize their vulnerability, and explain that they cannot be accessible to anyone in unlimited quantities. Furthermore, in an international context, using the Slovenian case, we seek to improve the understanding of human behaviour and expectations concerning public goods and common-pool resources in post-communist transitional societies.

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“…In some respects more than before, Norwegian local government interacts with other public and private actors in order to govern and develop their locality and region. When returning to them later on, we may conceptualise this type of steering and interaction as co-governance (Somerville & Haines, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These new models have also been conceptualised, e.g., as interactive governance (Buuren, Edelenbos, and Klijn 2007), network governance (Marcussen & Torfing, 2007), and co-governance (Somerville & Haines, 2008;Kickert & Koppenjan, 1997;Johnson & Osborne 2003).…”

Section: Vertical and Horizontal Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local self-government or local co-governance?

Roiseland¹

2010

LEX

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This article discusses "local self-government", a core concept in a Charter of the Council of Europe, and it departs from the debate in the Norwegian Parliament about constitutional protection of local self-government. Such a change has recently been voted down, and this serves as an opportunity to question the idea about local selfgovernment in a time when there are claims about a shift from government to governance. The article provides some examples of cogovernance in Norway, and argues that the meaning given by "local self-government" is not obvious. It also points to some possible issues in a future revision of the Charter mentioned above.

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Prospects for Local Co-Governance

Cited by 50 publications

References 7 publications

Evolving inter-regional co-operation in flood risk management: distances and types of partnership approaches in Austria

Evolving inter-regional co-operation in flood risk management: distances and types of partnership approaches in Austria

Public goods, common-pool resources, and the commons: The influence of historical legacy on modern perceptions in Slovenia as a transitional society

Local self-government or local co-governance?

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