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- Earle, Anton, et al.
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Transboundary water management and the climate change debate
- 2015
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for this book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three distinct ways – adapt, resist (as in avoiding the issue) and subvert (as in using the debate to fulfil their own agenda). The book charts approaches which have been taken over the past two decades to promote more effective water management institutions, covering issues of conflict, cooperation, power and law.
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- Hansson, Stina, 1974, et al.
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Advancing 'development' through an ips approach
- 2016
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology. - : Routledge. - 9781315446479 ; , s. 125-135
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Hansson, Stina, 1974, et al.
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Assessing the impact of transdisciplinary research: The usefulness of relevance, credibility, and legitimacy for understanding the link between process and impact
- 2018
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Ingår i: Research Evaluation. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0958-2029 .- 1471-5449. ; 27:2, s. 132-144
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a call for more transdisciplinary (TD) research, from academia, society, and funding agencies. Consequently, the field of TD research is searching for ways of proving the value and providing evidence to support the effectiveness of such research. The main challenge for evaluating TD research is attribution, that is how to link societal change to the TD research process. However, little attention has been paid to the relationship between the quality of the research process and the effects and impacts that are being evaluated. Building upon earlier attempts at evaluating TD research, this article tests three key aspects of effective sustainability research: its relevance, credibility, and legitimacy. To explore the link between the quality of process and societal effects, we analyze and compare outputs, outcomes, and impact of five TD projects. Overall, our analysis shows that while relevance, credibility, and legitimacy gave important insights regarding the links between process and impacts, they are not adequate for evaluating TD research impact. Process qualities such as practitioner motivation and perceived importance of the project, together with breadth of perspectives, the openness/flexibility of participants, and in-depth exchanges of expertise and knowledge, contributed to producing internally relevant, credible, and legitimate results. However, we also saw a need to develop the relevance, credibility, and legitimacy framework, in relation to the external dynamics of the project process, heterogeneous stakeholder groups, and the credibility of practice-based knowledge, which together with institutional factors and the political context significantly shape the possibility of impact.
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- Hansson, Stina, 1974, et al.
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Comments to Belcher et al. 2018's critique of Hansson and Polk 2018
- 2019
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Ingår i: Research Evaluation. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0958-2029 .- 1471-5449. ; 28:2, s. 202-205
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Assessing the value of transdisciplinary research is a complex and multifaceted enterprise allowing room for many perspectives. TheBelcher et al. (2018)critique of our paper (Hansson and Polk 2018) seems to be based on different perspectives and different readings of prior work. These differences for us explains the majority of the criticisms raised against our paper. After having critically reread all of the involved texts we conclude that the analysis, overall conclusions and content of our paper are solid. However, the response to our paper raised some very nuanced and important points regarding how we understand and reference each other's work. In this comment we will respond to and explain the most important issues raised in relation to the aim of our paper, the validity of our empirical results and our interpretation of the reference texts. We find that from different perspectives and with different aims and methods our work comes to very similar conclusions regarding the RCL framework and its usefulness in promoting the societal impact of research. © 2018 The Author(s).
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- Hansson, Stina, 1974
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Constituting water sector reform in Niger. Implementing the Programme Approach
- 2009
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the European African Studies biannual conference, June 2009, in Leipzig..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Based on newly collected material from Niger, this paper discusses the process of implementing the Millennium Development Goal, MDG, Target 10, to halve by 2015 the proportion of the population who lacks access to safe water. The implementation of the PRSP, together with the HIPC, has resulted in increased multilateral and bilateral assistance to Niger in general and to the water sector in particular. The Water Sector Project has been recognized as one of the most successful operations in the World Bank’s portfolio in Niger. Today it is one of three sectors in Niger in the forefront of the development of the programme approach, in line with the Paris declaration. As such, a process of negotiating state responsibility is under way through the transformation of development cooperation from projects to programmes. Whereas the project approach is perceived as having had the effect of making the state less responsible, the programme approach is expected to make the state more responsible. This upcoming paper, which will be part of my dissertation, is based on interviews with state officials in the water sector, focusing on their understanding of the new structures and how they provide possibilities and influence state responsibility for water services provision. It is based on studies in the water sector in Niger between 2001 and 2008.
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- Hansson, Stina, 1974
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Dependence and Autonomy: Conditions of Possibility for Nigerien Ownership in the Water Sector
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1750-2977 .- 1750-2985. ; 9:2, s. 256-277
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In order for development assistance to contribute to sustainable reform it is considered necessary for recipient states to become owners of and assume leadership over their own policies and strategies. Based on state–agent narratives and participation in ministry–donor negotiation meetings and workshops, this paper investigates the process of achieving Nigerien ownership in the water sector through the implementation of the programme approach. Against the backdrop of new mechanisms of aid and promises for the future, the article shows how Nigerien ownership in the water sector is imagined as the ability to act, which requires the close presence of donors rather than autonomous decision-making. At the same time, the promise of agency creates a space for negotiation of the role of the state that may or may not be utilized.
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- Hansson, Stina, 1974, et al.
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Developing and testing the urban sustainable development goal’s targets and indicators - a five city study
- 2016
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Ingår i: Environment & Urbanization. - : SAGE Publications. - 0956-2478 .- 1746-0301. ; 28:1, s. 49-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The campaign for the inclusion of a specifically urban goal within the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was challenging. Numerous divergent interests were involved, while urban areas worldwide are also extremely heterogeneous. It was essential to minimize the number of targets and indicators while still capturing critical urban dimensions relevant to human development. It was also essential to test the targets and indicators. This paper reports the findings of a unique comparative pilot project involving co-production between researchers and local authority officials in five diverse secondary and intermediate cities: Bangalore (Bengaluru), India; Cape Town, South Africa; Gothenburg, Sweden; Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; and Kisumu, Kenya. Each city faced problems in providing all the data required, and each also proposed various changes to maximize the local relevance of particular targets and indicators. This reality check provided invaluable inputs to the process of finalizing the urban SDG prior to the formal announcement of the entire SDG set by the UN Secretary-General in late September 2015.
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- Hansson, Stina, 1974, et al.
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Governance for sustainable urban development: the double function of SDG indicators
- 2019
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Ingår i: Area Development and Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2379-2957 .- 2379-2949. ; 4:3, s. 217-235
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- At the core of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the imperative of monitoring progress and holding policy-makers accountable. For this purpose, 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 230 global indicators were established with the double function of being a report card and a management tool. In the light of a pilot study about the experiences of local planning officials in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden, in relation to the suggested indicators for SDG 11, ‘Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’, and a comparison with findings in four other cities, the paper argues for a need to reprioritize indicator criteria to serve better governance for sustainable development in diverse urban contexts worldwide.
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- Hansson, Stina, 1974
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MDGs Negotiated. Constituting water sector reform in Niger.
- 2009
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the Annual Convention of International Studies Association, February 2009, New York.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper is the elaboration of one of the chapters of my thesis Who Brings the Water? Negotiating state responsibility in water sector reform in Niger. The dissertation deals with negotiation of state responsibility in water sector reform on three levels in Niger, between state and donors in the process of implementing the Paris declaration, between state and local level in the decentralisation process, and thirdly, between public and private actors in the privatisation process. This paper deals with ownership as one way of making the state more responsible for its development strategies and in this case as provider of public services, such as water. It centres on how state officials rationalise their own positions and the role of the state within the present reforms, aiming at attaining the Millennium Development water target, to halve by 2015, the proportion of the population who lack access to safe drinking water.
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