Evaluating governance for sustainable development - Insights from experiences in the Dutch fen landscape

被引:23
作者
den Uyl, Roos M. [1 ]
Driessen, Peter P. J. [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Exeter, Dept Polit, Ctr Rural Policy Res, Exeter EX4 4RJ, Devon, England
[2] Univ Utrecht, Fac Geosci, Copernicus Inst Sustainable Dev, Utrecht, Netherlands
关键词
Governance; Sustainable development; Adaptive management; Transition management; Payments for environmental services; PES; Equity; Democracy; Legitimacy; Uncertainties; Scale; Dutch fen landscape; AGRI-ENVIRONMENT SCHEMES; ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; PRIVATE GOVERNANCE; DESIGNING PAYMENTS; WATER MANAGEMENT; TRANSITION; RESILIENCE; COMANAGEMENT;
D O I
10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.08.022
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Prominent strands of discussion in the literature on governance for sustainable development debate how change can be induced to enhance sustainability, and how to evaluate the interventions aimed at prompting such change. Strikingly, there are few contributions about how prominent ideas of inducing change deal with multiple governance criteria for pursuing sustainable development. Moreover, the way ideas about inducing change relate to criteria of governance for sustainable development is not yet studied in an empirical context. This paper therefore comparatively analyses how three prominent modes of sustainable development governance adaptive management, transition management and payments for environmental services relate to a set of five prominent criteria reported in the literature, namely: equity, democracy, legitimacy, the handling of scale issues and the handling of uncertainty issues. It finds that the academic debates on these three modes address these criteria with varying attention and rather fragmented, while in the empirical setting of the Dutch fen landscape several aspects relating to the studied criteria were present and substantially influenced the functioning of the three modes of sustainable development. Together, the analysis of the literature debate and the empirical data are able to show that a narrow evaluation perspective may fail to diagnose and capture relevant struggles and complexities coming along with governance for sustainable development relevant issues. The study shows that in order to advance our understanding of governance for sustainable development, it is indeed important to include multiple criteria in studying these modes. Moreover, the study shows the importance of including empirical experiences which manifest when different modes for sustainable development are applied in real-world settings. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:186 / 203
页数:18
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