TY - CHAP

T1 - Impact of participation on sustainable water management planning: Comparative analysis of eight cases

AU - Kochskämper, Elisa

AU - Jager, Nicolas Wilhelm

AU - Newig, Jens

AU - Challies, Edward

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - This chapter presents case studies to better understand the causal mechanisms at work linking participation with environmental outcomes of decision-making processes (DMPs). It explores whether and how participation impacted on the environmental standards of planning outputs across the case studies, drawing on the causal mechanisms identified in. The chapter presents author's analysis by the followings: examining outputs; discussing conceptual mechanisms that potentially explain environmental output quality (mechanism clusters I–III); assessing actual implementation of plans in the studied sub-basins; and returning to explanatory mechanisms that address effective implementation (mechanism clusters IV and V). Whereas the first and second mechanism clusters describe the effects of participation in a more 'additive' logic (wherein participants bring in advocacy or knowledge individually), the third cluster engages with discursive interaction. Different styles and intensities of communication can evolve during group discussion in participatory processes, and impact on the environmental quality of process outputs.

AB - This chapter presents case studies to better understand the causal mechanisms at work linking participation with environmental outcomes of decision-making processes (DMPs). It explores whether and how participation impacted on the environmental standards of planning outputs across the case studies, drawing on the causal mechanisms identified in. The chapter presents author's analysis by the followings: examining outputs; discussing conceptual mechanisms that potentially explain environmental output quality (mechanism clusters I–III); assessing actual implementation of plans in the studied sub-basins; and returning to explanatory mechanisms that address effective implementation (mechanism clusters IV and V). Whereas the first and second mechanism clusters describe the effects of participation in a more 'additive' logic (wherein participants bring in advocacy or knowledge individually), the third cluster engages with discursive interaction. Different styles and intensities of communication can evolve during group discussion in participatory processes, and impact on the environmental quality of process outputs.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication

UR - https://www.routledge.com/Participation-for-Effective-Environmental-Governance-Evidence-from-European/Kochskaemper-Challies-Jager-Newig/p/book/9781138713291

U2 - 10.4324/9781315193649

DO - 10.4324/9781315193649

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-1-138-71329-1

T3 - Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

SP - 117

EP - 148

BT - Participation for Effective Environmental Governance

A2 - Kochskämper, Elisa

A2 - Challies, Edward

A2 - Jager, Nicolas W.

A2 - Newig, Jens

PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

CY - London

ER -