Assessing participatory process‐system linkages in polycentric water governance: Insights from WFD implementation in Germany.
An important, although insufficiently answered, environmental governance research question concerns how exactly participation improves policy implementation at different scales. Numerous studies have highlighted important variables influencing the effectiveness of participatory processes. However, s...
| Publicado en: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 310 - 346 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=184111109&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 184111109 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1541132X MJJ jtl: Review of Policy Research issn: 1541132X maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Mar2025 vid: 42 iid: 2 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 184111109 10.1111/ropr.12588 ppf: 310 ppct: 36 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P size: 872KB tig: atl: Assessing participatory process‐system linkages in polycentric water governance: Insights from WFD implementation in Germany. aug: au: Schröder, Nadine Jenny Shirin Watson, Nigel affil: Department for Environmentally Sound Urban and Infrastructure Planning, HafenCity University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany IRI THESys Graduate Program (Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human‐Environment Systems), Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany Faculty of Science and Technology, Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC), Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK su: Germany Water management Environmental research Research questions Multiplication sug: subj: Germany Water management Environmental research Research questions Multiplication keyword: EU water framework directive participation polycentricity water governance Alemania directiva marco del agua de la UE gobernanza del agua participación policentricidad 《欧盟水框架指令》 参与 多中心性 德国 水治理 EU water framework directive participation polycentricity water governance Alemania directiva marco del agua de la UE gobernanza del agua participación policentricidad 《欧盟水框架指令》 参与 多中心性 德国 水治理 ab: An important, although insufficiently answered, environmental governance research question concerns how exactly participation improves policy implementation at different scales. Numerous studies have highlighted important variables influencing the effectiveness of participatory processes. However, studies of participation tend to be strongly process‐oriented rather than system‐oriented and often overlook the reality that participatory processes are part of increasingly complex and broader decision‐making systems. By analyzing particular process‐system linkages, this paper contributes new knowledge regarding how participatory processes can influence decision‐making in polycentric governance systems. This study focuses on the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive, which aims for good ecological and chemical status in all European waters, in six German states with varied polycentric decision‐making structures. No direct decision‐making power was found to be associated with any of the participatory processes themselves. Rather, the power remained embedded within the other established institutional structures. Nevertheless, the participatory processes did still intend to influence decision‐making within those established structures through the aggregation and multiplication of information. The findings show that only a few representatives or a small proportion of the total number of decision‐makers are involved in participatory processes. Therefore, those processes may either affect decisions directly due to the binding nature of the decisions taken within participatory processes or alternatively have effects through more complex and nuanced multiplication routes following the conclusion of each participatory process. Moreover, all of the participatory processes examined in this study were reliant to some extent on such multiplication mechanisms to amplify the effects on decisions throughout the overall polycentric governance system. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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