From Network Structure To Policy Design In Water Protection

Author : Florence Metz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319556932
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Network Structure to Policy Design in Water Protection written by Florence Metz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines a new concern in water quality policy, namely aquatic micropollutants. Micropollutants are chemicals detected in small concentrations in waterbodies today, originating from pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, or detergents, among others. Since the regulation of micropollutants is a fairly new issue, it has been largely neglected in social sciences. However, the search for appropriate solutions is of high political relevance at both the national and international levels, with many open questions arising that concern the most adequate governance structures and steering mechanisms. Solutions suitable for classical, macro-pollutants, such as nutrients, do not necessarily apply to micropollutants because of the diversity of compounds and sources, and for technical, financial, and societal reasons. The book addresses this knowledge gap by investigating the steering mechanisms at hand and their prospect for problem solving. In this regard, the research provides a systematic depiction and comparison of policy designs in place for the reduction of micropollutants in the Rhine basin. Moreover, the study yields insights into the governance structures in place, into actors’ responsibilities and constellations, and policy processes regarding micropollutants. The study is furthermore embedded into broader theoretical questions of policy research. More precisely, this research is a contribution to policy analysis that aims to achieve more optimal policy results by providing for a better understanding of the nature of policy designs and the social mechanisms behind the choice of them. Despite the intrinsic aim of policy analysis at contributing to more optimal policy outcomes, there remains a lack of research regarding analytical tools that enable an ex-ante assessment of policy designs’ problem-solving abilities. To explore such a research path, this book proposes a novel index of policy comprehensiveness for quantifying the prospective performance of policy designs in alleviating an underlying policy issue, e.g. reducing pollutants in waters. Furthermore, the book uncovers the social mechanisms behind policymaking and turns to the question: In which social settings is it possible to achieve a comprehensive policy design? Compared to purely micro-level explanations, the advantage of the network approach is that it goes beyond the mere aggregation of policy actors’ attributes by taking into consideration actors’ interdependencies. In order to take the network approach seriously, the study systematically links the structure of a policy network with comprehensive policy designs. Network concepts, such as coalition structure, interconnectedness, and belief similarity, are employed from policy change research here in order to explore the link between structural network characteristics and comprehensive policy design. By studying how network structures affect policy design, the book critically examines the explanatory value of the network approach.

Author : Hans Bressers
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714646428
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Networks for Water Policy written by Hans Bressers and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The investigations comprising this volume have been produced as part of a coordinated project by scholars of policy and politics in several countries. Each case treats the issues of water policy network composition and structure, and determinants of network characteristics, as well as documenting the influence of the networks on policy developments towards more network openness, more emulation of business behaviour, and less domination by traditional professional groups such as engineers. Essays by the editors provide a common analytical perspective and offer both explicitly-comparative conclusions and evidence-based assessments of the strengths and limitations of the network perspective.

Author : Manuel Fischer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030467694
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Networks in Water Governance written by Manuel Fischer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the consequences of climate change and biodiversity loss becoming more and more apparent, both the protection of water resources and water-related ecosystems as well as protection from water, that is flood protection policies, have become increasingly important. This book explores the latest applications of network analysis concepts and measures to the study and practice of water governance. Given the holistic complexity of water governance, it covers individual water governance aspects such as flood protection and fisheries, as well as overarching concepts like integrated water management and social-ecological interactions. The book provides an overview of current water governance issues, network analytic concepts as well as implications for practice. The main body of the text is made up of eight case studies by world-leading environmental governance scholars, each of which addresses one water-related challenge by applying a variety of network approaches. The first part of the book highlights network dispersion and fragmentation, the second focuses on how such fragmentation in networks can be overcome and the third deals with specific roles of actors in networks. This collection is a key resource for scholars and practitioners interested in water governance all over the world. It provides readers with an overview of the potential of network analytic concepts for research on complex governance problems.

Author : Yi hyun Kang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031104862
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change Adaptation in River Management written by Yi hyun Kang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the approaches to climate change adaptation in water governance taken by South Korea and Germany. By comparing their political decision-making processes, this book explores the factors behind their differences. Adaptation to the changing climate is critical to human society and water is the principal medium through which climate change will affect us. Due to high levels of industrialization and population density, flood control is a high priority in both countries’ adaptation plans. While South Korea has maintained its engineering-oriented flood control policy for river management, Germany has turned its direction from its long-standing technical approach to more nature-based solutions. The evidence of this study indicates that policy change and stability is the result of discourse and institutional interaction, and thus emphasizes the validity of discursive institutionalism. This book will clearly explain why certain policies are adopted for water management and will be an invaluable contribution to the expanding literature on the socio-political aspects of climate change adaptation.

Author : Seunghoo Lim
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030708551
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policy Network Ties in the Dynamic Process of Environmental Conflict Resolution written by Seunghoo Lim and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive previous research has investigated environmental conflict management issues in networked settings and the design of policy networks, but the emergence and evolution of self-organizing policy networks are still not fully understood. Especially misunderstood is the problem of how the multiple motivations or incentives of competing policy actors in conflictual situations affect their structures of interaction, as this issue has not been studied systematically. This book aims to address the following research questions: how do policy stakeholders cope strategically with collective action or environmental conflict resolution? How do they utilize or maintain formal and informal policy networks to resolve problems effectively? What motivates them to engage or be involved in collaborative or conflictual networks? What influences their networking or their decisions on partner selection for conflict resolution? This book consists of four studies. The goal of the first study is to examine the form of a policy network by focusing on how policy networks emerge and evolve at the micro-level to solve collective action dilemmas endemic to decentralized and democratized policy decision-making processes, particularly in the environmental conflict resolution arena. The goal of the second study is to examine the main policy actors and structural characteristics of network governance evolution in the dynamic process of environmental conflict resolution. The goal of the third study is to highlight the role of policy tie formality in the evolution of multiplex ties in the environmental conflict resolution process. The goal of the fourth study is to demonstrate the relationships between patterns of interactions among policy actors and their modified and adjusted strategic behaviours within policy networks and across advocacy coalitions.

Author : Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000320383
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Governance across the Globe written by Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes an innovative approach to studying international climate governance by providing a critical analysis of climate leadership, pioneership and followership across the globe. The volume assesses the interactions between climate leaders, pioneers and followers, across multilevel and/or polycentric climate governance contexts. Examining the state and sub-state levels in both the Global South and Global North, as well as regional, supranational EU and international climate governance levels, the authors explore 16 countries across Asia, Australasia, Europe, and Central and North America, plus the European Union. Each chapter employs a comprehensive and consistent framework for analyzing leadership and pioneership, as well as followership. The findings provide new insights into the strategies and actions of sub-state, state-level, and supranational leaders and pioneers. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in environmental politics and climate change governance, as well as those interested in political elites, EU studies and, more broadly, comparative politics and international relations.

Author : David C. Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do We Need a National Water Policy Process? written by David C. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Gayler Sanders
Publisher : Water Resources Publication
ISBN 13 : 9780918334510
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design of Networks for Monitoring Water Quality written by Thomas Gayler Sanders and published by Water Resources Publication. This book was released on 1983 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cheryl De Boer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136242708
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Governance, Policy and Knowledge Transfer written by Cheryl De Boer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners, new technologies and communication means have made the transfer of policies from one country or region to another progressively more prevalent. There has been a lot of attention in the field of public administration paid to policy transfer and institutional transplantation. This book aims to create a better understanding of such transfers in the water management sector. These include the adoption of modern water management concepts, such as integrated water resources management and forms of water governance, which are strongly promoted and sometimes also imposed by various international organizations. Transfers also occur within the scope of development aid or for the purpose of creating business opportunities. In addition, many research organisations, consultancies and governmental agencies are involved in cross-border work. The purpose of this book is therefore to present practical examples of the transfer of modern water management from one locality to another and to critically discuss the transferability of policy and governance concepts by analysing the contextual needs and factors. Case studies are included from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It is argued that in many cases context matters in water management and that there is no panacea or universal concept that can be applied to all countries or regions with different political, economic, cultural and technological contexts. Yet it is also shown that some countries are facing pressing and similar water management issues that cut across national borders, and hence the transfer of knowledge may be beneficial.

Author : G.J. Schrama
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401151067
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drinking Water Supply and Agricultural Pollution written by G.J. Schrama and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural pollution (with nitrates and pesticides) is one of the biggest threats to drinking water resources. At many places regional and local water authorities, together with the water supply industry, are involved in preventive action aimed at farming practices. Three national case studies (Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom) analyse these efforts within the context of problematical national agricultural policy and the need to implement EU directives on water quality. Additional case studies cover the role of the European Union, while the same problem in a different setting is analysed for the United States. The central question of how national and European governments can reinforce the control capacity of the actors at the regional and local level, is treated from the theoretical perspective of the policy network approach.