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Despite numerous efforts to promote and implement more integrated approaches, coordination problems persist and impede sustainable water governance and management. This paper introduces a framework for guiding a transdisciplinary diagnostic approach (i.e. a context-sensitive assessment of multi-level water governance, which is combined with a change management process) to address such coordination problems. The approach aims at addressing some of the challenges identified in scientific scholarship and water governance practice by combining context-specific participatory assessments of individual cases with comparative case analysis guided by a generic conceptual framework. The focus is on implementation processes at regional and local scale and their embedding in a multi-level water governance system and a specific environmental and societal context. A coherent approach and formalized representation across individual cases is essential to develop cumulative knowledge and to improve the diagnostic strength of the approach. Based on a broad literature review and exploratory study of multiple, diverse cases conceptual framework identifies a variety of factors that are expected to be important for understanding the performance of environmental governance and management systems. The paper makes explicit the hypotheses on relationships between core variables that resulted from framework development. The framework, including the collection of hypotheses, offers a structured approach for analysing a phenomenon as complex and multi-facetted as coordination. It allows identification of multiple pathways that may lead an improvement or a decline in performance, respectively. The framework can find more widespread application in supporting comparative case study analyses with a focus on improving the understanding of policy implementation also beyond the field of water governance and management.
Claudia Pahl-Wostl; Christian Knieper; Evelyn Lukat; Franziska Meergans; Mirja Schoderer; Nora Schütze; Daniel Schweigatz; Ines Dombrowsky; Andrea Lenschow; Ulf Stein; Andreas Thiel; Jenny Tröltzsch; Rorigo Vidaurre. Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges: A framework of analysis. Environmental Science & Policy 2020, 107, 23 -35.
AMA StyleClaudia Pahl-Wostl, Christian Knieper, Evelyn Lukat, Franziska Meergans, Mirja Schoderer, Nora Schütze, Daniel Schweigatz, Ines Dombrowsky, Andrea Lenschow, Ulf Stein, Andreas Thiel, Jenny Tröltzsch, Rorigo Vidaurre. Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges: A framework of analysis. Environmental Science & Policy. 2020; 107 ():23-35.
Chicago/Turabian StyleClaudia Pahl-Wostl; Christian Knieper; Evelyn Lukat; Franziska Meergans; Mirja Schoderer; Nora Schütze; Daniel Schweigatz; Ines Dombrowsky; Andrea Lenschow; Ulf Stein; Andreas Thiel; Jenny Tröltzsch; Rorigo Vidaurre. 2020. "Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges: A framework of analysis." Environmental Science & Policy 107, no. : 23-35.
While diffusion patterns are quite well understood in the context of the Global North, diffusion research has only been applied to a limited extent to investigate how policies spread across developing countries. In this article, we therefore analyze the diffusion patterns of plastic bag bans and plastic bag taxes in the Global South and Global North to contribute to the further refinement of diffusion theory by specifically addressing the under-researched Global South. Moreover, with an in-depth investigation of plastic bag policies through the lens of diffusion research, the article provides insights in the rather new and still underexplored policy field of plastic pollution. We find that industrialized countries have mostly adopted plastic bag taxes, while developing countries have mainly introduced plastic bag bans and thus more stringent legislation than countries in the Global North. So far, the key driving force for the diffusion of plastic bag policies in the Global North has been the global public pressure. In the Global South, where plastic bag litter is much more visible and harmful due to limited waste collection and recycling rates, national problem pressure has been much more influential.
Doris Knoblauch; Linda Mederake; Ulf Stein. Developing Countries in the Lead—What Drives the Diffusion of Plastic Bag Policies? Sustainability 2018, 10, 1994 .
AMA StyleDoris Knoblauch, Linda Mederake, Ulf Stein. Developing Countries in the Lead—What Drives the Diffusion of Plastic Bag Policies? Sustainability. 2018; 10 (6):1994.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDoris Knoblauch; Linda Mederake; Ulf Stein. 2018. "Developing Countries in the Lead—What Drives the Diffusion of Plastic Bag Policies?" Sustainability 10, no. 6: 1994.