Governance change and governance learning in Europe: stakeholder participation in environmental policy implementation
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Governance change and governance learning in Europe: stakeholder participation in environmental policy implementation. / Challies, Edward; Newig, Jens; Kochskämper, Elisa et al.
in: Policy and Society, Jahrgang 36, Nr. 2, 03.04.2017, S. 288-303.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
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T1 - Governance change and governance learning in Europe: stakeholder participation in environmental policy implementation
AU - Challies, Edward
AU - Newig, Jens
AU - Kochskämper, Elisa
AU - Jager, Nicolas Wilhelm
N1 - Funding Information: The research was conducted as part of the ERC Starting Grant project ‘EDGE – evaluating the delivery of participatory environmental governance using an evidence-based research design’ (263859-EDGE) to J.N. We thank Stéphane Moyson for reflections on the ideas presented in the paper, and two anonymous reviewers for their feedback. Publisher Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s).
PY - 2017/4/3
Y1 - 2017/4/3
N2 - Current European Union (EU) policies require policy-makers on different levels of government to engage with new forms of governance such as participatory planning, aiming to improve environmental policy delivery. We address the central issue of how policy-makers learn about the appropriateness of different modes of governance. By way of example, we examine recent innovations in EU water governance – primarily through the enactment of the Water Framework Directive (2000) and the Floods Directive (2007), and their requirements for stakeholder participation in the planning process. We discuss scope for policy-induced ‘governance learning’, wherein policy-makers draw on evidence and experience to learn about how to design and execute effective participatory planning and decision-making. In doing so, we aim to extend work on policy learning by focusing on the procedural dimensions of governance, and make a case for more coordinated and systematic approaches to gathering evidence and learning from ongoing EU environmental policy implementation.
AB - Current European Union (EU) policies require policy-makers on different levels of government to engage with new forms of governance such as participatory planning, aiming to improve environmental policy delivery. We address the central issue of how policy-makers learn about the appropriateness of different modes of governance. By way of example, we examine recent innovations in EU water governance – primarily through the enactment of the Water Framework Directive (2000) and the Floods Directive (2007), and their requirements for stakeholder participation in the planning process. We discuss scope for policy-induced ‘governance learning’, wherein policy-makers draw on evidence and experience to learn about how to design and execute effective participatory planning and decision-making. In doing so, we aim to extend work on policy learning by focusing on the procedural dimensions of governance, and make a case for more coordinated and systematic approaches to gathering evidence and learning from ongoing EU environmental policy implementation.
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - Policy transfer
KW - multi-level learning
KW - mandated participatory planning
KW - adaptive governance
KW - collaborative governance
KW - participatory governance
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14494035.2017.1320854
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U2 - 10.1080/14494035.2017.1320854
DO - 10.1080/14494035.2017.1320854
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 36
SP - 288
EP - 303
JO - Policy and Society
JF - Policy and Society
SN - 1449-4035
IS - 2
ER -