Duncan J Russel
Biographic Data
| ID | 283795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Duncan J Russel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Duncan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Russel |
| SIGNATURE | RUSSEL D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3843-7892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 217 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Walkable Maps and Policy Innovation for Nature: A Novel Methodology for Understanding Policy Learning
Methodological innovation is needed that actively engages a range of policy makers in policy learning to address the climate and biodiversity crises. We developed Walkable Floor Map Policy Workshops (WFMPWs) as a way of engaging policy makers in policy learning towards NBS innovation in their local context. This paper examines WFMPW methodology for NBS through an analysis of three WFMPWs in three European urban case study sites. We find that impl…
A typology of the climate activist
As the climate crisis escalates and citizens increasingly come to understand the existential consequences of political inaction on our civilisation, they are demanding radical action. Although people are mobilising as climate activists in ever more creative and imaginative ways, our understandings about the variety of inside and outside climate activism lack conceptual clarity. Every year there are new accounts from different academic literatures…
Agencies navigating the political at the science-to-policy interface for nature-based solutions
Embedding ecosystem services ideas into policy processes: An Institutional Analysis
What helps or limits the use of ecosystem services ideas in practice? In this paper we develop and test a new institutionalistbased analytical scheme to explore how ecosystem services as a "new" policy idea might interact with established policy regimes, processes, and norms. The scheme is based on three different decision-making levels: micro, meso, and macro. To test the plausibility of the scheme, it is applied to the case of the UK where a sp…
Mainstreaming the environment through appraisal: Integrative governance or logics of disintegration
In both national and international circles, environmental policy makers are repeatedly faced with the challenges posed by scientific, institutional and administrative fragmentation and complexity. Within this context, appraisal – of policies, programmes and projects – has been repeatedly advocated as a key integration tool that can help policy makers navigate such fragmentation and complexity by better integrating environmental concerns into deci…
Understanding policy integration in the EU—Insights from a multi-level lens on climate adaptation and the EU’s coastal and marine policy
Climate adaptation in fragmented governance settings: The Consequences of Reform in Public Administration
The impact of dominant trends in public administration, such as decentralisation and privatisation on complex collective challenges is insufficiently understood. This is relevant in settings where climate change impacts become manifest at local level, and where financing power resides at national level but decisions are made more locally in a fragmented institutional setting. This study assists in overcoming this gap by analysing how the institut…
The idea(s) of 'valuing nature: Insights from the UK's ecosystem services framework
The variety of ideas about ways nature is ‘valued’ in public policymaking are investigated. A theoretical ideational approach is combined with empirical analysis of the UK’s ecosystem services framework. Several types of ideas are identified, and how they interact is examined: ideas about nature itself; about the role that different research on the value of nature can or should play in decision-making; and about how policy decisions are made. In …
Institutional barriers to climate change adaptation in decentralised governance structures: Transport planning in England
Climate change poses governance challenges at diverse scales and across the dimensions of risk and responsibility. Local governments are central to the delivery of action on both decarbonisation and adapting to the risks of climate change. Yet there are likely to be significant differences across local governments in terms of their capacity to act on climate change. This research documents and explains differences in the capacity to act within re…
Patterns of EU Energy Policy Outputs: Incrementalism or Punctuated Equilibrium
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Green budgeting in an age of austerity: A Transatlantic Comparative Perspective
The integration of environmental concerns into government fiscal cycles, or green budgeting, is an increasingly popular means of pursuing environmental policy, but the global spread of green budgeting norms has been uneven. However, recent stimulus packages employed by advanced economies to promote economic growth integrate a strong green element. This raises questions about how the current desire for fiscal austerity interacts with existing fact…
Climate Policy Integration: A Case of Déjà Vu?
Climate change is a complex cross‐cutting problem that necessitates a high level of policy coordination. One proposed strategy for dealing with such issues is policy integration or mainstreaming. Environmental Policy Integration (EPI) was heralded as one of the key features of sustainable development. However, in recent years Climate Policy Integration (CPI) has come to the fore. This article argues that CPI is an emerging concept that has receiv…
The complexity of evidence for sustainable development policy: Analysing the boundary work of the UK Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee
The relationship between evidence, governance and institutions in the pursuit of sustainable development is notoriously complicated. Studying organisations whose roles include managing boundaries between evidence and policy is one way to better understand this relationship. But in spite of the complexity, such organisations often appear – officially at least – to have rather limited remits, with very sharply drawn boundaries. This paper investiga…
The many uses of regulatory impact assessment: A meta‐analysis of EU and UK cases
Research on regulation has crossed paths with the literature on policy instruments, showing that regulatory policy instruments contain cognitive and normative beliefs about policy. Thus, their usage stacks the deck in favor of one type of actor or one type of regulatory solution. In this article, we challenge the assumption that there is a predetermined relationship between ideas, regulatory policy instruments, and outcomes. We argue that differe…
Evidence, politics and power in public policy for the environment
Joining up or Pulling Apart? The Use of Appraisal to Coordinate Policy Making for Sustainable Development
Coordinated (or 'joined-up') approaches to policy making are said to be an immensely important ingredient in the effective governance of sustainable development. There are, however, few detailed empirical studies of how well different policy coordination instruments perform in relation to this task. This paper identifies the United Kingdom as a critical test of how to achieve better policy coordination because it has been regularly identified as …
Rationalising the Policy Mess? Ex Ante Policy Assessment and the Utilisation of Knowledge in the Policy Process
Procedures for the ex ante assessment of public policies are currently in vogue across the OECD. Their design is typically informed by a rational-instrumental model of problem solving, which assumes that knowledge is collected, evaluated, and then translated straightforwardly into 'better policies'. But this model has been little affected by more than three decades of academic research which has demonstrated that the reality of everyday policy ma…
It's Demand, Stupid’: The Failure and Future of Integrating Climate Change Concerns into UK Transport Policy
The use and non-use of policy appraisal tools in public policy making: An analysis of three European countries and the European Union
The use and non-use of policy appraisal tools in public policy making: An analysis of three European countries and the European Union
The many uses of regulatory impact assessment: A meta‐analysis of EU and UK cases
Research on regulation has crossed paths with the literature on policy instruments, showing that regulatory policy instruments contain cognitive and normative beliefs about policy. Thus, their usage stacks the deck in favor of one type of actor or one type of regulatory solution. In this article, we challenge the assumption that there is a predetermined relationship between ideas, regulatory policy instruments, and outcomes. We argue that differe…
Evidence, politics and power in public policy for the environment
Rationalising the Policy Mess? Ex Ante Policy Assessment and the Utilisation of Knowledge in the Policy Process
Procedures for the ex ante assessment of public policies are currently in vogue across the OECD. Their design is typically informed by a rational-instrumental model of problem solving, which assumes that knowledge is collected, evaluated, and then translated straightforwardly into 'better policies'. But this model has been little affected by more than three decades of academic research which has demonstrated that the reality of everyday policy ma…
The complexity of evidence for sustainable development policy: Analysing the boundary work of the UK Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee
The relationship between evidence, governance and institutions in the pursuit of sustainable development is notoriously complicated. Studying organisations whose roles include managing boundaries between evidence and policy is one way to better understand this relationship. But in spite of the complexity, such organisations often appear – officially at least – to have rather limited remits, with very sharply drawn boundaries. This paper investiga…
Joining up or Pulling Apart? The Use of Appraisal to Coordinate Policy Making for Sustainable Development
Coordinated (or 'joined-up') approaches to policy making are said to be an immensely important ingredient in the effective governance of sustainable development. There are, however, few detailed empirical studies of how well different policy coordination instruments perform in relation to this task. This paper identifies the United Kingdom as a critical test of how to achieve better policy coordination because it has been regularly identified as …
Patterns of EU Energy Policy Outputs: Incrementalism or Punctuated Equilibrium
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Understanding policy integration in the EU—Insights from a multi-level lens on climate adaptation and the EU’s coastal and marine policy
Green budgeting in an age of austerity: A Transatlantic Comparative Perspective
The integration of environmental concerns into government fiscal cycles, or green budgeting, is an increasingly popular means of pursuing environmental policy, but the global spread of green budgeting norms has been uneven. However, recent stimulus packages employed by advanced economies to promote economic growth integrate a strong green element. This raises questions about how the current desire for fiscal austerity interacts with existing fact…
Institutional barriers to climate change adaptation in decentralised governance structures: Transport planning in England
Climate change poses governance challenges at diverse scales and across the dimensions of risk and responsibility. Local governments are central to the delivery of action on both decarbonisation and adapting to the risks of climate change. Yet there are likely to be significant differences across local governments in terms of their capacity to act on climate change. This research documents and explains differences in the capacity to act within re…
Agencies navigating the political at the science-to-policy interface for nature-based solutions
Climate adaptation in fragmented governance settings: The Consequences of Reform in Public Administration
The impact of dominant trends in public administration, such as decentralisation and privatisation on complex collective challenges is insufficiently understood. This is relevant in settings where climate change impacts become manifest at local level, and where financing power resides at national level but decisions are made more locally in a fragmented institutional setting. This study assists in overcoming this gap by analysing how the institut…
The idea(s) of 'valuing nature: Insights from the UK's ecosystem services framework
The variety of ideas about ways nature is ‘valued’ in public policymaking are investigated. A theoretical ideational approach is combined with empirical analysis of the UK’s ecosystem services framework. Several types of ideas are identified, and how they interact is examined: ideas about nature itself; about the role that different research on the value of nature can or should play in decision-making; and about how policy decisions are made. In …
Walkable Maps and Policy Innovation for Nature: A Novel Methodology for Understanding Policy Learning
Methodological innovation is needed that actively engages a range of policy makers in policy learning to address the climate and biodiversity crises. We developed Walkable Floor Map Policy Workshops (WFMPWs) as a way of engaging policy makers in policy learning towards NBS innovation in their local context. This paper examines WFMPW methodology for NBS through an analysis of three WFMPWs in three European urban case study sites. We find that impl…
Mainstreaming the environment through appraisal: Integrative governance or logics of disintegration
In both national and international circles, environmental policy makers are repeatedly faced with the challenges posed by scientific, institutional and administrative fragmentation and complexity. Within this context, appraisal – of policies, programmes and projects – has been repeatedly advocated as a key integration tool that can help policy makers navigate such fragmentation and complexity by better integrating environmental concerns into deci…
It's Demand, Stupid’: The Failure and Future of Integrating Climate Change Concerns into UK Transport Policy
The use and non-use of policy appraisal tools in public policy making: An analysis of three European countries and the European Union
Evidence, politics and power in public policy for the environment
Joining up or Pulling Apart? The Use of Appraisal to Coordinate Policy Making for Sustainable Development
Coordinated (or 'joined-up') approaches to policy making are said to be an immensely important ingredient in the effective governance of sustainable development. There are, however, few detailed empirical studies of how well different policy coordination instruments perform in relation to this task. This paper identifies the United Kingdom as a critical test of how to achieve better policy coordination because it has been regularly identified as …
Rationalising the Policy Mess? Ex Ante Policy Assessment and the Utilisation of Knowledge in the Policy Process
Procedures for the ex ante assessment of public policies are currently in vogue across the OECD. Their design is typically informed by a rational-instrumental model of problem solving, which assumes that knowledge is collected, evaluated, and then translated straightforwardly into 'better policies'. But this model has been little affected by more than three decades of academic research which has demonstrated that the reality of everyday policy ma…
The complexity of evidence for sustainable development policy: Analysing the boundary work of the UK Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee
The relationship between evidence, governance and institutions in the pursuit of sustainable development is notoriously complicated. Studying organisations whose roles include managing boundaries between evidence and policy is one way to better understand this relationship. But in spite of the complexity, such organisations often appear – officially at least – to have rather limited remits, with very sharply drawn boundaries. This paper investiga…
The many uses of regulatory impact assessment: A meta‐analysis of EU and UK cases
Research on regulation has crossed paths with the literature on policy instruments, showing that regulatory policy instruments contain cognitive and normative beliefs about policy. Thus, their usage stacks the deck in favor of one type of actor or one type of regulatory solution. In this article, we challenge the assumption that there is a predetermined relationship between ideas, regulatory policy instruments, and outcomes. We argue that differe…
Climate Policy Integration: A Case of Déjà Vu?
Climate change is a complex cross‐cutting problem that necessitates a high level of policy coordination. One proposed strategy for dealing with such issues is policy integration or mainstreaming. Environmental Policy Integration (EPI) was heralded as one of the key features of sustainable development. However, in recent years Climate Policy Integration (CPI) has come to the fore. This article argues that CPI is an emerging concept that has receiv…
Patterns of EU Energy Policy Outputs: Incrementalism or Punctuated Equilibrium
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Green budgeting in an age of austerity: A Transatlantic Comparative Perspective
The integration of environmental concerns into government fiscal cycles, or green budgeting, is an increasingly popular means of pursuing environmental policy, but the global spread of green budgeting norms has been uneven. However, recent stimulus packages employed by advanced economies to promote economic growth integrate a strong green element. This raises questions about how the current desire for fiscal austerity interacts with existing fact…
Institutional barriers to climate change adaptation in decentralised governance structures: Transport planning in England
Climate change poses governance challenges at diverse scales and across the dimensions of risk and responsibility. Local governments are central to the delivery of action on both decarbonisation and adapting to the risks of climate change. Yet there are likely to be significant differences across local governments in terms of their capacity to act on climate change. This research documents and explains differences in the capacity to act within re…
The idea(s) of 'valuing nature: Insights from the UK's ecosystem services framework
The variety of ideas about ways nature is ‘valued’ in public policymaking are investigated. A theoretical ideational approach is combined with empirical analysis of the UK’s ecosystem services framework. Several types of ideas are identified, and how they interact is examined: ideas about nature itself; about the role that different research on the value of nature can or should play in decision-making; and about how policy decisions are made. In …
Mainstreaming the environment through appraisal: Integrative governance or logics of disintegration
In both national and international circles, environmental policy makers are repeatedly faced with the challenges posed by scientific, institutional and administrative fragmentation and complexity. Within this context, appraisal – of policies, programmes and projects – has been repeatedly advocated as a key integration tool that can help policy makers navigate such fragmentation and complexity by better integrating environmental concerns into deci…
Understanding policy integration in the EU—Insights from a multi-level lens on climate adaptation and the EU’s coastal and marine policy
Climate adaptation in fragmented governance settings: The Consequences of Reform in Public Administration
The impact of dominant trends in public administration, such as decentralisation and privatisation on complex collective challenges is insufficiently understood. This is relevant in settings where climate change impacts become manifest at local level, and where financing power resides at national level but decisions are made more locally in a fragmented institutional setting. This study assists in overcoming this gap by analysing how the institut…
Embedding ecosystem services ideas into policy processes: An Institutional Analysis
What helps or limits the use of ecosystem services ideas in practice? In this paper we develop and test a new institutionalistbased analytical scheme to explore how ecosystem services as a "new" policy idea might interact with established policy regimes, processes, and norms. The scheme is based on three different decision-making levels: micro, meso, and macro. To test the plausibility of the scheme, it is applied to the case of the UK where a sp…
Agencies navigating the political at the science-to-policy interface for nature-based solutions
A typology of the climate activist
As the climate crisis escalates and citizens increasingly come to understand the existential consequences of political inaction on our civilisation, they are demanding radical action. Although people are mobilising as climate activists in ever more creative and imaginative ways, our understandings about the variety of inside and outside climate activism lack conceptual clarity. Every year there are new accounts from different academic literatures…
Walkable Maps and Policy Innovation for Nature: A Novel Methodology for Understanding Policy Learning
Methodological innovation is needed that actively engages a range of policy makers in policy learning to address the climate and biodiversity crises. We developed Walkable Floor Map Policy Workshops (WFMPWs) as a way of engaging policy makers in policy learning towards NBS innovation in their local context. This paper examines WFMPW methodology for NBS through an analysis of three WFMPWs in three European urban case study sites. We find that impl…
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