Peter Knoepfel
Biographic Data
| ID | 893527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Knoepfel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Knoepfel |
| SIGNATURE | KNOEPFEL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1669-2745 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Governing contemporary commons: The Institutional Resource Regime in dialogue with other policy frameworks
This introductory article to the special issue on the Institutional Resource Regime (IRR) framework presents an overview of the latest developments of the framework. The IRR framework has been established as an important supplement to existing (neo)institutional approaches focusing on the management of natural resources. One of the major contributions of the IRR framework is its ability to appraise the institutional complexity of heterogeneous re…
Actor Constellation Games in Policy Implementation—The Case of Switzerland
This analytical essay deals with the policy resource organization which policy actors employ to influence policy implementation activities. We speak of games of actor constellations that potentially influence the content of policy implementation activities. In the last 50 years, the scope of these games has broadened due to their increasing complexity. Initially shaped as simple bilateral structures formed by policy targets and the state, these c…
Analyse et pilotage des politiques publiques: France, Suisse, Canada
Le projet de la modernisation de l’Etat entraine de nombreux defis qui demandent une reflexion en profondeur sur la legitimite des actions publiques. Pour pouvoir juger de leur pertinence, de leur efficacite et de leur efficience par rapport a une situation sociale jugee politiquement problematique et inacceptable, un modele d’analyse des politiques publiques est necessaire. Il s’agit de distinguer une logique d’action, de discuter de sa coherenc…
The Politics of Contaminated Sites Management: Institutional Regime Change and Actors' Mode of Participation in the Environmental Management of the Bonfol Chemical Waste Landfill in Switzerland
By the end of the 1970s, contaminated sites had emerged as one of the most complex and urgent environmental issues affecting industrialized countries. The authors show that small and prosperous Switzerland is no exception to the pervasive problem of sites contamination, the legacy of past practices in waste management having left some 38,000 contaminated sites throughout the country. This book outlines the problem, offering evidence that open and…
The Adaptation Policy Paradox: The Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation
Dupuis, J., and P. Knoepfel 2013. The adaptation policy paradox: the implementation deficit of policies framed as climate change adaptation. Ecology and Society 18(4): 31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05965-180431
Dossier « Le champ des commons en question: Perspectives croisées » - Gestion des ressources communes en Suisse : le rôle des institutions de gestion communautaire dans les politiques environnementale…
Cette contribution traite de la question des conditions de perpétuation des institutions de gestion communautaire de ressources (common pool resource institutions [CPRI]) dans le contexte des États contemporains, à partir du cas suisse. En particulier, elle discute trois hypothèses – la médiation, la multipositionnalité et la complémentarité – relatives aux conditions d’imbrication des CPRI dans les principales politiques publiques (environnement…
Les barrières à la mise en œuvre des politiques d’adaptation au changement climatique: Le cas de la Suisse
The implementation of climate change adaptation polices has barely occurred in developed countries. This paper examines to what extent the perceptions of political actors might hinder the development of adaptation policies. We study the Swiss case using computer aided textual analysis. Our results demonstrate that adaptation is still not perceived as an important dimension of climate change policy. Decision makers do not perceive links between ad…
The Role of Swiss Civic Corporations in Land-Use Planning
Public authorities in charge of managing public real-estate assets at the local level face conflicting interests. In Switzerland, short-term solutions often prevail. This paper looks at another group of actors which are characterized by their long-term real-estate management strategies: civic corporations. In Switzerland old civic corporations, which share many characteristics with common pool resource (CPR) institutions, are large landowners, so…
Annual Index Volume 14 (2008)
Análisis y gestión de políticas públicas
Los autores de este libro, profesores de reconocido prestigio en universidades de Suiza, Francia y Espana, proponen diversas vias y dimensiones de analisis y gestion de politicas publicas, al mismo tiempo comprensibles y solidas, bien fundamentadas en multitud de ejemplos y experiencias concretas sacadas de los contextos de sus respectivos paises. Los temas de gobernanza, participacion social y las complejidades del ejercicio de gobierno en un es…
Ressourcenorientierte Nachhaltigkeitspolitik jenseits des magischen Drei-Säulen-Konzepts
Towards Integrated Governance of Landscape Development: The Swiss Model of Regional Nature Parks
Coherent regulation of landscape as a resource is a major challenge. How can the development interests of some actors (eg cable car operators and property developers) be reconciled with those of others (agriculture, forestry) and with conservation of biodiversity and scenic value? To help understand how the newly introduced Regional Nature Parks (RNPs) can improve the coherence of the regulation regime in Switzerland, we highlight current direct …
Institutional Resource Regimes: Towards sustainability through the combination of property-rights theory and policy analysis
Institutional Regimes for Sustainable Collective Housing Stocks
The influence of public policy, property rights and contracts on the sustainability of residential buildings remains largely unknown. This research will use the analytical framework of the housing institutional regime to study the sustainability over time of the housing stock. We aim to produce an inventory of the housing institutional regime in Switzerland, a comparison with the German and Catalan regimes, and policy suggestions to achieve a bet…
The sustainable management of the landscape: The lessons the new regional nature parks must draw from the experience of the old corporations
Le paysage est de plus en plus perçu comme une ressource. À ce titre, il est nécessaire de trouver des instruments juridiques, politiques ou économiques susceptibles de gérer cette « ressource-paysage » sur le long terme. Le gouvernement suisse a introduit récemment l’instrument des parcs naturels régionaux, organisés selon le modèle français, dans sa législation de protection de la nature et du paysage. Une mise en regard des nouveaux parcs avec…
Gestion durable du paysage: Les leçons que les nouveaux parcs naturels régionaux doivent tirer de l’expérience des anciennes corporations
Le paysage est de plus en plus perçu comme une ressource. À ce titre, il est nécessaire de trouver des instruments juridiques, politiques ou économiques susceptibles de gérer cette « ressource-paysage » sur le long terme. Le gouvernement suisse a introduit récemment l’instrument des parcs naturels régionaux, organisés selon le modèle français, dans sa législation de protection de la nature et du paysage. Une mise en regard des nouveaux parcs avec…
Landschaft—von der res nullius zu einem common good
Institutionalized Management of Scarce Resources: Introduction and Overview
Mesurer la performance publique: Méfions-nous des terribles simplificateurs
Cet article présente quelques enseignements de l'analyse des politiques publiques pour la conception et l'application d'indicateurs de la performance publique. Après avoir souligné la nécessité d'une telle démarche, nous élaborons un modèle causal qui identifie les objets (outputs, impacts, outcomes) et les critères (effectivité, efficacité, efficiences allocative et productive) à évaluer lors de la mesure et de l'appréciation des produits et des…
The Politics of Improving Urban Air Quality
This work sets out clearly how to work towards effective policies for improved urban air quality. The authors argue that designing and implementing successful policies requires institution-building that works towards consensus among a range of potentially-divergent interest groups
Stichwort 10: Kooperation statt Konfrontation
Obituary: A True and Constant Voice is Silenced – on the Demise of Raimund E. Germann
Social Learning in Policy Networks
English The subject of this article is learning processes in public policies. Twenty-eight case studies in the areas of environmental, agricultural and health policy, which were part of the Swiss National Research Programme No 27, Effectiveness of public policies, were used as a basis for studying the way in which inter organisational learning processes unfold in different policy fields (stimuli, knowledge transfer, social processes etc), the lea…
Debate: New Public Management (NPM)
Zur unzumutbaren politischen Rolle der Naturwissenschaften in der umweltpolitischen Debatte
By means of four examples (curve diameter formula for the construction of highways; heavy metal standards for sewage sludges; evaluation of environmental impacts in environmental impact assessment procedures; evaluation of the greenhouse effect) important political implications within pretended scientific and technical research results are demonstrated. While politicians today offen decide on pretty unimportant matters (for example, the introduct…
Institutional Resource Regimes: Towards sustainability through the combination of property-rights theory and policy analysis
Social Learning in Policy Networks
English The subject of this article is learning processes in public policies. Twenty-eight case studies in the areas of environmental, agricultural and health policy, which were part of the Swiss National Research Programme No 27, Effectiveness of public policies, were used as a basis for studying the way in which inter organisational learning processes unfold in different policy fields (stimuli, knowledge transfer, social processes etc), the lea…
Formulation and Implementation of Air Quality Control Programmes: Patterns of Interest Consideration
This article investigates some central aspects of the relationships between programme structure and implementation of sulphur dioxide air quality control policies. Previous implementation research, primarily adopting American approaches, has neglected the connections between the processes of programme formulation and implementation. ‘Programme’, as the key variable in implementation studies, has been defined too narrowly. On the basis of theoreti…
The Adaptation Policy Paradox: The Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation
Dupuis, J., and P. Knoepfel 2013. The adaptation policy paradox: the implementation deficit of policies framed as climate change adaptation. Ecology and Society 18(4): 31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05965-180431
Implementing Air Quality Control Programs in Europe: Some Results of a Comparative Study
Institutional Regimes for Sustainable Collective Housing Stocks
The influence of public policy, property rights and contracts on the sustainability of residential buildings remains largely unknown. This research will use the analytical framework of the housing institutional regime to study the sustainability over time of the housing stock. We aim to produce an inventory of the housing institutional regime in Switzerland, a comparison with the German and Catalan regimes, and policy suggestions to achieve a bet…
Governing contemporary commons: The Institutional Resource Regime in dialogue with other policy frameworks
This introductory article to the special issue on the Institutional Resource Regime (IRR) framework presents an overview of the latest developments of the framework. The IRR framework has been established as an important supplement to existing (neo)institutional approaches focusing on the management of natural resources. One of the major contributions of the IRR framework is its ability to appraise the institutional complexity of heterogeneous re…
Les barrières à la mise en œuvre des politiques d’adaptation au changement climatique: Le cas de la Suisse
The implementation of climate change adaptation polices has barely occurred in developed countries. This paper examines to what extent the perceptions of political actors might hinder the development of adaptation policies. We study the Swiss case using computer aided textual analysis. Our results demonstrate that adaptation is still not perceived as an important dimension of climate change policy. Decision makers do not perceive links between ad…
The Role of Swiss Civic Corporations in Land-Use Planning
Public authorities in charge of managing public real-estate assets at the local level face conflicting interests. In Switzerland, short-term solutions often prevail. This paper looks at another group of actors which are characterized by their long-term real-estate management strategies: civic corporations. In Switzerland old civic corporations, which share many characteristics with common pool resource (CPR) institutions, are large landowners, so…
The sustainable management of the landscape: The lessons the new regional nature parks must draw from the experience of the old corporations
Le paysage est de plus en plus perçu comme une ressource. À ce titre, il est nécessaire de trouver des instruments juridiques, politiques ou économiques susceptibles de gérer cette « ressource-paysage » sur le long terme. Le gouvernement suisse a introduit récemment l’instrument des parcs naturels régionaux, organisés selon le modèle français, dans sa législation de protection de la nature et du paysage. Une mise en regard des nouveaux parcs avec…
Explaining Differences in the Performance of Clean Air Policies: An International and Interregional Comparative Study
On the basis of a large international comparative study of implementation policies from 14 different regional implementation systems (RIS) from the Federal Republic of Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy and the Netherlands, we first tried to identify the impact of regional policies in terms of their capacity to influence the behaviour of individual emitters within selected local implementation areas (LIA). For each of the 14 regions we select…
Actor Constellation Games in Policy Implementation—The Case of Switzerland
This analytical essay deals with the policy resource organization which policy actors employ to influence policy implementation activities. We speak of games of actor constellations that potentially influence the content of policy implementation activities. In the last 50 years, the scope of these games has broadened due to their increasing complexity. Initially shaped as simple bilateral structures formed by policy targets and the state, these c…
Implementing Air Quality Control Programs in Europe: Some Results of a Comparative Study
Formulation and Implementation of Air Quality Control Programmes: Patterns of Interest Consideration
This article investigates some central aspects of the relationships between programme structure and implementation of sulphur dioxide air quality control policies. Previous implementation research, primarily adopting American approaches, has neglected the connections between the processes of programme formulation and implementation. ‘Programme’, as the key variable in implementation studies, has been defined too narrowly. On the basis of theoreti…
Explaining Differences in the Performance of Clean Air Policies: An International and Interregional Comparative Study
On the basis of a large international comparative study of implementation policies from 14 different regional implementation systems (RIS) from the Federal Republic of Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy and the Netherlands, we first tried to identify the impact of regional policies in terms of their capacity to influence the behaviour of individual emitters within selected local implementation areas (LIA). For each of the 14 regions we select…
Regulatory change and institutional rearrangement: Building new policy arenas for ecologization of agriculture. A comparative analysis of programmes in France and Switzerland
Zur unzumutbaren politischen Rolle der Naturwissenschaften in der umweltpolitischen Debatte
By means of four examples (curve diameter formula for the construction of highways; heavy metal standards for sewage sludges; evaluation of environmental impacts in environmental impact assessment procedures; evaluation of the greenhouse effect) important political implications within pretended scientific and technical research results are demonstrated. While politicians today offen decide on pretty unimportant matters (for example, the introduct…
Bewältigung von Umweltkonflikten durch Verhandeln
Debate: New Public Management (NPM)
Social Learning in Policy Networks
English The subject of this article is learning processes in public policies. Twenty-eight case studies in the areas of environmental, agricultural and health policy, which were part of the Swiss National Research Programme No 27, Effectiveness of public policies, were used as a basis for studying the way in which inter organisational learning processes unfold in different policy fields (stimuli, knowledge transfer, social processes etc), the lea…
Mesurer la performance publique: Méfions-nous des terribles simplificateurs
Cet article présente quelques enseignements de l'analyse des politiques publiques pour la conception et l'application d'indicateurs de la performance publique. Après avoir souligné la nécessité d'une telle démarche, nous élaborons un modèle causal qui identifie les objets (outputs, impacts, outcomes) et les critères (effectivité, efficacité, efficiences allocative et productive) à évaluer lors de la mesure et de l'appréciation des produits et des…
The Politics of Improving Urban Air Quality
This work sets out clearly how to work towards effective policies for improved urban air quality. The authors argue that designing and implementing successful policies requires institution-building that works towards consensus among a range of potentially-divergent interest groups
Stichwort 10: Kooperation statt Konfrontation
Obituary: A True and Constant Voice is Silenced – on the Demise of Raimund E. Germann
Institutionalized Management of Scarce Resources: Introduction and Overview
Landschaft—von der res nullius zu einem common good
The sustainable management of the landscape: The lessons the new regional nature parks must draw from the experience of the old corporations
Le paysage est de plus en plus perçu comme une ressource. À ce titre, il est nécessaire de trouver des instruments juridiques, politiques ou économiques susceptibles de gérer cette « ressource-paysage » sur le long terme. Le gouvernement suisse a introduit récemment l’instrument des parcs naturels régionaux, organisés selon le modèle français, dans sa législation de protection de la nature et du paysage. Une mise en regard des nouveaux parcs avec…
Gestion durable du paysage: Les leçons que les nouveaux parcs naturels régionaux doivent tirer de l’expérience des anciennes corporations
Le paysage est de plus en plus perçu comme une ressource. À ce titre, il est nécessaire de trouver des instruments juridiques, politiques ou économiques susceptibles de gérer cette « ressource-paysage » sur le long terme. Le gouvernement suisse a introduit récemment l’instrument des parcs naturels régionaux, organisés selon le modèle français, dans sa législation de protection de la nature et du paysage. Une mise en regard des nouveaux parcs avec…
Análisis y gestión de políticas públicas
Los autores de este libro, profesores de reconocido prestigio en universidades de Suiza, Francia y Espana, proponen diversas vias y dimensiones de analisis y gestion de politicas publicas, al mismo tiempo comprensibles y solidas, bien fundamentadas en multitud de ejemplos y experiencias concretas sacadas de los contextos de sus respectivos paises. Los temas de gobernanza, participacion social y las complejidades del ejercicio de gobierno en un es…
Ressourcenorientierte Nachhaltigkeitspolitik jenseits des magischen Drei-Säulen-Konzepts
Towards Integrated Governance of Landscape Development: The Swiss Model of Regional Nature Parks
Coherent regulation of landscape as a resource is a major challenge. How can the development interests of some actors (eg cable car operators and property developers) be reconciled with those of others (agriculture, forestry) and with conservation of biodiversity and scenic value? To help understand how the newly introduced Regional Nature Parks (RNPs) can improve the coherence of the regulation regime in Switzerland, we highlight current direct …
Institutional Resource Regimes: Towards sustainability through the combination of property-rights theory and policy analysis
Institutional Regimes for Sustainable Collective Housing Stocks
The influence of public policy, property rights and contracts on the sustainability of residential buildings remains largely unknown. This research will use the analytical framework of the housing institutional regime to study the sustainability over time of the housing stock. We aim to produce an inventory of the housing institutional regime in Switzerland, a comparison with the German and Catalan regimes, and policy suggestions to achieve a bet…
Annual Index Volume 14 (2008)
Les barrières à la mise en œuvre des politiques d’adaptation au changement climatique: Le cas de la Suisse
The implementation of climate change adaptation polices has barely occurred in developed countries. This paper examines to what extent the perceptions of political actors might hinder the development of adaptation policies. We study the Swiss case using computer aided textual analysis. Our results demonstrate that adaptation is still not perceived as an important dimension of climate change policy. Decision makers do not perceive links between ad…
The Role of Swiss Civic Corporations in Land-Use Planning
Public authorities in charge of managing public real-estate assets at the local level face conflicting interests. In Switzerland, short-term solutions often prevail. This paper looks at another group of actors which are characterized by their long-term real-estate management strategies: civic corporations. In Switzerland old civic corporations, which share many characteristics with common pool resource (CPR) institutions, are large landowners, so…
Dossier « Le champ des commons en question: Perspectives croisées » - Gestion des ressources communes en Suisse : le rôle des institutions de gestion communautaire dans les politiques environnementale…
Cette contribution traite de la question des conditions de perpétuation des institutions de gestion communautaire de ressources (common pool resource institutions [CPRI]) dans le contexte des États contemporains, à partir du cas suisse. En particulier, elle discute trois hypothèses – la médiation, la multipositionnalité et la complémentarité – relatives aux conditions d’imbrication des CPRI dans les principales politiques publiques (environnement…
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