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- Graversgaard, Morten, et al.
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Opportunities and barriers for water co-governance : A critical analysis of seven cases of diffuse water pollution from agriculture in Europe, Australia and North America
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI. - 2071-1050. ; 10:5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Diffuse Water Pollution from Agriculture (DWPA) and its governance has received increased attention as a policy concern across the globe. Mitigation of DWPA is a complex problem that requires a mix of policy instruments and a multi-agency, broad societal response. In this paper, opportunities and barriers for developing co-governance, defined as collaborative societal involvement in the functions of government, and its suitability for mitigation of DWPA are reviewed using seven case studies in Europe (Poland, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands and UK), Australia (Murray-Darling Basin) and North America (State of Minnesota). An analytical framework for assessing opportunities and barriers of co-governance was developed and applied in this review. Results indicated that five key issues constitute both opportunities and barriers, and include: (i) pressure for change; (ii) connected governance structures and allocation of resources and funding; (iii) leadership and establishment of partnerships through capacity building; (iv) use and co-production of knowledge; and (v) time commitment to develop water co-governance
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- Gray, Steven, et al.
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Purpose, processes, partnerships, and products : four Ps to advance participatory socio-environmental modeling
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Ingår i: Ecological Applications. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1051-0761 .- 1939-5582. ; 28:1, s. 46-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Including stakeholders in environmental model building and analysis is an increasingly popular approach to understanding ecological change. This is because stakeholders often hold valuable knowledge about socio-environmental dynamics and collaborative forms of modeling produce important boundary objects used to collectively reason about environmental problems. Although the number of participatory modeling (PM) case studies and the number of researchers adopting these approaches has grown in recent years, the lack of standardized reporting and limited reproducibility have prevented PM's establishment and advancement as a cohesive field of study. We suggest a four-dimensional framework (4P) that includes reporting on dimensions of (1) the Purpose for selecting a PM approach (the why); (2) the Process by which the public was involved in model building or evaluation (the how); (3) the Partnerships formed (the who); and (4) the Products that resulted from these efforts (the what). We highlight four case studies that use common PM software-based approaches (fuzzy cognitive mapping, agent-based modeling, system dynamics, and participatory geospatial modeling) to understand human-environment interactions and the consequences of ecological changes, including bushmeat hunting in Tanzania and Cameroon, agricultural production and deforestation in Zambia, and groundwater management in India. We demonstrate how standardizing communication about PM case studies can lead to innovation and new insights about model-based reasoning in support of ecological policy development. We suggest that our 4P framework and reporting approach provides a way for new hypotheses to be identified and tested in the growing field of PM.
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- Hedelin, Beatrice, 1974-
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A tentative framework for sustainable management of natural risks
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 4th International Disaster and Risk Conference. - : Global Risk Forum (GRF). ; , s. 300-303
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Participation and co-operation play important roles in attaining sustainable (and integrated) natural risk management. As a consequence, new management practices relating to participation are being developed and tested. However, deductive approaches to assessment and development ofparticipatory management practices are rare. Here, a newly derived deductive framework for sustainable river basin management is proposed forapplication to the adjacent field of natural risk management. The framework covers issues of values and knowledge in the planning process and making the participatory process democratic. Hopefully, the presentation of the framework at the Global Risk Forum 2012 can act as a starting point for an extended discussion of the use of the criteria as a tool for operationalizing the concept of sustainable development in the field of natural risk management.
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- Hedelin, Beatrice, 1974-, et al.
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Collaboration Adrift : Factors for Anchoring into Governance Systems, Distilled from a Study of Three Regulated Rivers
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI. - 2071-1050. ; 15:6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Collaboration has the potential to aid the balancing of values and goals that belong to different, sometimes competing, policy fields, such as energy, climate adaptation and nature conservation-a key component of sustainable governance. However, we need to know more of how collaboration can function as integrating (and integrated) components of governance systems. Three regulated Swedish rivers are used here as examples to explore factors that influence this function. The following factors are identified: transparency of value trade-offs, understanding of collaboration and governance, interplay between public sectors, integrating funding mechanisms, clarity of mandate, strategic use of networks and consistency of the governance system. As a consequence of the poor management of these factors in our case, water quality and ecology values are not integrated in strategic decision making, e.g., regarding hydropower, urban development or climate adaptation. Instead, they are considered add-ons, or "decorations". The Swedish case illustrates the meaning of the factors and their great importance for achieving sustainable governance.
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- Hedelin, Beatrice, 1974-
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Complexity is no excuse : Introduction of a research model for turning sustainable development from theory into practice
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Ingår i: Sustainability Science. - : Springer Tokyo. - 1862-4065 .- 1862-4057. ; 14:3, s. 733-749
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An overarching research model is introduced here that can support research for turning sustainable development (SD) from theory into practice. The model describes how existing and future theories, and empirical knowledge related to SD can be utilised to establish explicit linkages—steps—between fundamental SD principles and specific studied practices. The research model is intended to support planning, design and communication of a range of research endeavours such as individual studies, larger projects and research programmes. It internalises a number of insights from the current stock of SD literature such as explicitly linking local solutions to general SD principles, the need to embrace complexity and to use theory, the need for interdisciplinarity, and acknowledging SD as both substance and process. The model and its utilisation are explained and illustrated here by reference to a research example from river basin planning. The model is a critical and constructive attempt to establish structure and strategy in relation to the overwhelming complexity of the sustainability challenge—a challenge which urgently calls for reflective and effective research approaches.
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- Hedelin, Beatrice, 1974-
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Criteria for the assessment of planning processes for sustainable river basin management : Illustration by two cases: The EU water framework directive and ongoing water planning processes in Sweden
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Ingår i: Adaptive and Integrated Water Management. - Berlin : Springer. - 9783540759409 ; , s. 405-422
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines a set of criteria for processes that aim to attain sustainable river basin planning at the regional scale. The criteria answer to the lack of deductive methodologies for the assessment and development of participatory approaches to water planning. They are derived from the two concepts and sustainability principles participation and integration. The criteria are here explained and their use is illustrated by presentation of the results and conclusions from two case studies. The first case concerns an assessment of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). — In what ways does the WFD support or obstruct processes for sustainable water management? The second case concerns the ongoing planning processes in Sweden that follow from the implementation of the WFD. The cases show that the criteria work well in achieving their purpose as their use resulted in practicable proposals for taking the studied planning objects closer to meeting the criteria.
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