Katarina Eckerberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1574528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katarina Eckerberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katarina |
| FAMILY NAME | Eckerberg |
| SIGNATURE | ECKERBERG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6546-5210 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Steering ‘green’ innovation policy toward sustainability? Lessons from implementing EIP-Agri in Sweden
This article critically examines the state's steering capacity of ‘green innovation’ programs using Sweden's implementation of the agricultural European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) as a case representing part of the EU's Green Deal. The innovations should promote the competitiveness of rural areas and contribute to national environmental protection and climate goals. We found that despite expectations, implementation rests on compartmentali…
Using systematic reviews to inform environmental policy-making
There is a demand for scientific knowledge to make informed decisions in environmental policy. This study examines expectations of knowledge use, and how knowledge stemming from systematic reviews (SR) is being used through an analytical framework that distinguishes between instrumental, conceptual and legitimising evaluation use, as well as between process and product use. Empirically, we investigate knowledge generated from six SRs conducted th…
Voluntary agreements to protect private forests – A realist review
There is increasing political interest in the use of voluntary agreements (VA) as a policy instrument. The attraction has grown also in environmental policy, VAs are expected to be less costly, more effective and more cost-efficient than regulation. Using a realist review methodology, our analysis focuses on the effect of contextual factors and mechanisms on private forest owners' willingness to enter into formal voluntary nature conservation agr…
The coalitional politics of the European Union’s environmental forest policy: Biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection
European forest policymaking is shaped by progressing European integration, yet with notable ideological divisions and diverging interests among countries. This paper focuses on the coalitional politics of key environmental forest issues: biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection policy. Combining the Advocacy Coalition Framework and the Shifting Coalition Theory, and informed by more than 186 key informant interviews and…
Devolving power from the state: Local initiatives for nature protection and recreation in Sweden
Quests for devolving more power to local actors for nature protection stem from both international and national policies. Also, there is a growing recognition of the need for local governments to promote green infrastructure for citizens to recreate and learn about their environment. Starting in 2004, the Swedish government has allocated special funding towards these goals through the Local Nature Conservation Programme (LONA). Virtually all Swed…
Policy change implications for forest water protection in Sweden over the last 50 years
Improving water quality has become an important environmental issue, spurred in part by the Water Framework Directive. However, the relationship of policy change with forest water protection measures is relatively unknown. We analyzed how policy and practice have developed in Sweden using 50 years of historic data from the Krycklan Catchment Study, focusing on riparian buffers. Corresponding to legislation, education and voluntary measures emphas…
Promises and dilemmas in forest fire management decision-making: Exploring conditions for community engagement in Australia and Sweden
Funding ecological restoration policy in practice—patterns of short-termism and regional biases
Incentives for Collaborative Governance: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Initiatives in the Swedish Mountain Region
Governance collaborations between public and private partners are increasingly used to promote sustainable mountain development, yet information is limited on their nature and precise extent. This article analyzes collaboration on environment and natural resource management in Swedish mountain communities to critically assess the kinds of issues these efforts address, how they evolve, who leads them, and what functional patterns they exhibit base…
Political science and ecological restoration
Ecological restoration has taken on a new significance in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss. Despite its growing policy salience, however, the social and political sciences have paid limited attention to the study of ecological restoration policy and practice. By drawing upon the political science study of multilevel governance, institutions, power relations, and place-based politics, a flavour is given of what a political science …
Forest conflicts: A growing research field
Studying conflicts, proposing solutions — Towards multi-level approaches to the analyses of forest conflicts
A Policy Analysis Perspective on Ecological Restoration
Using a simple stages model of the policy process, we explore the politics of ecological restoration using an array of examples drawn across sector, different size and scale, and from different countries. A policy analysis perspective reveals how, at both the program and project levels, ecological restoration operates within a complex and dynamic interplay between technical decision making, ideologies, and interest politics. Viewed through the st…
Rising policy conflicts in Europe over bioenergy and forestry
Governance, complexity, and resilience
National and Local Policy Implementation as a Participatory Process
Comparing the local use of environmental policy instruments in Nordic and Baltic countries - the issue of diffuse water pollution
International agreements for the North and Baltic Seas set the goal to reduce by 50 per cent the loading of nitrogen and phosphorus from 1987 to 1995. Not surprisingly, this goal has not been achieved. Different strategies to combat diffuse source water pollution from agriculture and forestry are analysed from the perspective of local implementation, using six case studies in the riparian countries to compare how different policy instruments are …
Environmental problems and policy options in the Baltic states: Learning from the west
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are facing severe environmental challenges following their independence, in which environmental movements had played an important role. Ecological threats from land‐use, water and air pollution are described and discussed in this study, drawing from the experience of policies implemented in the West. These include those normative, economic and coercive policy instruments in national as well as international environme…
Governance, complexity, and resilience
Forest conflicts: A growing research field
Rising policy conflicts in Europe over bioenergy and forestry
Studying conflicts, proposing solutions — Towards multi-level approaches to the analyses of forest conflicts
Funding ecological restoration policy in practice—patterns of short-termism and regional biases
Comparing the local use of environmental policy instruments in Nordic and Baltic countries - the issue of diffuse water pollution
International agreements for the North and Baltic Seas set the goal to reduce by 50 per cent the loading of nitrogen and phosphorus from 1987 to 1995. Not surprisingly, this goal has not been achieved. Different strategies to combat diffuse source water pollution from agriculture and forestry are analysed from the perspective of local implementation, using six case studies in the riparian countries to compare how different policy instruments are …
The coalitional politics of the European Union’s environmental forest policy: Biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection
European forest policymaking is shaped by progressing European integration, yet with notable ideological divisions and diverging interests among countries. This paper focuses on the coalitional politics of key environmental forest issues: biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection policy. Combining the Advocacy Coalition Framework and the Shifting Coalition Theory, and informed by more than 186 key informant interviews and…
Political science and ecological restoration
Ecological restoration has taken on a new significance in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss. Despite its growing policy salience, however, the social and political sciences have paid limited attention to the study of ecological restoration policy and practice. By drawing upon the political science study of multilevel governance, institutions, power relations, and place-based politics, a flavour is given of what a political science …
Policy change implications for forest water protection in Sweden over the last 50 years
Improving water quality has become an important environmental issue, spurred in part by the Water Framework Directive. However, the relationship of policy change with forest water protection measures is relatively unknown. We analyzed how policy and practice have developed in Sweden using 50 years of historic data from the Krycklan Catchment Study, focusing on riparian buffers. Corresponding to legislation, education and voluntary measures emphas…
A Policy Analysis Perspective on Ecological Restoration
Using a simple stages model of the policy process, we explore the politics of ecological restoration using an array of examples drawn across sector, different size and scale, and from different countries. A policy analysis perspective reveals how, at both the program and project levels, ecological restoration operates within a complex and dynamic interplay between technical decision making, ideologies, and interest politics. Viewed through the st…
Using systematic reviews to inform environmental policy-making
There is a demand for scientific knowledge to make informed decisions in environmental policy. This study examines expectations of knowledge use, and how knowledge stemming from systematic reviews (SR) is being used through an analytical framework that distinguishes between instrumental, conceptual and legitimising evaluation use, as well as between process and product use. Empirically, we investigate knowledge generated from six SRs conducted th…
Promises and dilemmas in forest fire management decision-making: Exploring conditions for community engagement in Australia and Sweden
Environmental problems and policy options in the Baltic states: Learning from the west
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are facing severe environmental challenges following their independence, in which environmental movements had played an important role. Ecological threats from land‐use, water and air pollution are described and discussed in this study, drawing from the experience of policies implemented in the West. These include those normative, economic and coercive policy instruments in national as well as international environme…
National and Local Policy Implementation as a Participatory Process
Comparing the local use of environmental policy instruments in Nordic and Baltic countries - the issue of diffuse water pollution
International agreements for the North and Baltic Seas set the goal to reduce by 50 per cent the loading of nitrogen and phosphorus from 1987 to 1995. Not surprisingly, this goal has not been achieved. Different strategies to combat diffuse source water pollution from agriculture and forestry are analysed from the perspective of local implementation, using six case studies in the riparian countries to compare how different policy instruments are …
Governance, complexity, and resilience
Rising policy conflicts in Europe over bioenergy and forestry
Forest conflicts: A growing research field
Studying conflicts, proposing solutions — Towards multi-level approaches to the analyses of forest conflicts
A Policy Analysis Perspective on Ecological Restoration
Using a simple stages model of the policy process, we explore the politics of ecological restoration using an array of examples drawn across sector, different size and scale, and from different countries. A policy analysis perspective reveals how, at both the program and project levels, ecological restoration operates within a complex and dynamic interplay between technical decision making, ideologies, and interest politics. Viewed through the st…
Political science and ecological restoration
Ecological restoration has taken on a new significance in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss. Despite its growing policy salience, however, the social and political sciences have paid limited attention to the study of ecological restoration policy and practice. By drawing upon the political science study of multilevel governance, institutions, power relations, and place-based politics, a flavour is given of what a political science …
Incentives for Collaborative Governance: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Initiatives in the Swedish Mountain Region
Governance collaborations between public and private partners are increasingly used to promote sustainable mountain development, yet information is limited on their nature and precise extent. This article analyzes collaboration on environment and natural resource management in Swedish mountain communities to critically assess the kinds of issues these efforts address, how they evolve, who leads them, and what functional patterns they exhibit base…
Funding ecological restoration policy in practice—patterns of short-termism and regional biases
Promises and dilemmas in forest fire management decision-making: Exploring conditions for community engagement in Australia and Sweden
Devolving power from the state: Local initiatives for nature protection and recreation in Sweden
Quests for devolving more power to local actors for nature protection stem from both international and national policies. Also, there is a growing recognition of the need for local governments to promote green infrastructure for citizens to recreate and learn about their environment. Starting in 2004, the Swedish government has allocated special funding towards these goals through the Local Nature Conservation Programme (LONA). Virtually all Swed…
Policy change implications for forest water protection in Sweden over the last 50 years
Improving water quality has become an important environmental issue, spurred in part by the Water Framework Directive. However, the relationship of policy change with forest water protection measures is relatively unknown. We analyzed how policy and practice have developed in Sweden using 50 years of historic data from the Krycklan Catchment Study, focusing on riparian buffers. Corresponding to legislation, education and voluntary measures emphas…
Voluntary agreements to protect private forests – A realist review
There is increasing political interest in the use of voluntary agreements (VA) as a policy instrument. The attraction has grown also in environmental policy, VAs are expected to be less costly, more effective and more cost-efficient than regulation. Using a realist review methodology, our analysis focuses on the effect of contextual factors and mechanisms on private forest owners' willingness to enter into formal voluntary nature conservation agr…
The coalitional politics of the European Union’s environmental forest policy: Biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection
European forest policymaking is shaped by progressing European integration, yet with notable ideological divisions and diverging interests among countries. This paper focuses on the coalitional politics of key environmental forest issues: biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection policy. Combining the Advocacy Coalition Framework and the Shifting Coalition Theory, and informed by more than 186 key informant interviews and…
Using systematic reviews to inform environmental policy-making
There is a demand for scientific knowledge to make informed decisions in environmental policy. This study examines expectations of knowledge use, and how knowledge stemming from systematic reviews (SR) is being used through an analytical framework that distinguishes between instrumental, conceptual and legitimising evaluation use, as well as between process and product use. Empirically, we investigate knowledge generated from six SRs conducted th…
Steering ‘green’ innovation policy toward sustainability? Lessons from implementing EIP-Agri in Sweden
This article critically examines the state's steering capacity of ‘green innovation’ programs using Sweden's implementation of the agricultural European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) as a case representing part of the EU's Green Deal. The innovations should promote the competitiveness of rural areas and contribute to national environmental protection and climate goals. We found that despite expectations, implementation rests on compartmentali…
Political science (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Business (11 works) · Environmental resource management (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Forest Management and Policy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Environmental planning (6 works)