Governance for Sustainability
Towards a 'Thick' Analysis of Environmental Decisionmaking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4142736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W Neil Adger (0000-0003-4244-2854, University of East Anglia), Katrina Brown (0000-0002-0341-7229, University of East Anglia), Jenny Fairbra (0000-0001-5292-0720, University of East Anglia), Andrew J Jordan (0000-0001-7678-1024, University of East Anglia), Andrew Jordan (University of East Anglia), Jouni Paavola (0000-0001-5720-466X, University of East Anglia), Sergio Rosendo (0000-0002-3095-9824, University of East Anglia), Gill Seyfang (0000-0003-4696-0798, University of East Anglia) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1095-1110 |
| Publication date | 2003-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a35289 |
| OpenAlex | W2075036355 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 139 |
| References cited | 50 |
Environmental decisions made by individuals, civil society, and the state involve questions of economic efficiency, environmental effectiveness, equity, and political legitimacy. These four criteria are constitutive of the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, which has become the dominant rhetorical device of environmental governance. We discuss the tendency for disciplinary research to focus on particular subsets of the four criteria, and argue that such a practice promotes solutions that do not acknowledge the dynamics of scale and the heterogeneity of institutional contexts. We advocate an interdisciplinary framework for the analysis of environmental decisionmaking that seeks to identify legitimate and context-sensitive institutional solutions producing equitable, efficient, and effective outcomes. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach by using it to examine decisions concerning contested nature conservation and multiple-use commons in the management of Hickling Broad in Norfolk in the United Kingdom. We conclude that interdisciplinary approaches enable the generalisation and transfer of lessons in a way that respects the specifics and context of the issue at hand
Civil society · Commons · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental governance · Environmental resource management · Intergenerational equity · Legitimacy · Management · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sustainability · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
Mudanças Climáticas E Os Refugiados Do Clima Como Uma Questão De Segurança Humana
Local Self-Government Institutions and Climate Change
Rethinking Forests Governance as Global Commons
Small-scale European forestry, an anticommons
Governing atmospheric sinks
Towards a framework for analysing interactions between social science and environmental policy
From Community-Based Resource Management to Complex Systems
Archetype analysis in sustainability research
Who Should Benefit from Redd+? Rationales and Realities
A method for the deliberate and deliberative selection of policy instrument mixes for climate change adaptation
How is global climate policy interpreted on the ground? Insights from the analysis of local discourses about forest management and Redd+ in Indonesia
Opportunities for Collaborative Adaptive Management Progress
Selling Conservation? Scientific Legitimacy and the Commodification of Conservation Tourism
Governing for a Healthy Population
The Dynamo Initiative – Improving health system resilience through dynamic modelling of integrated health and care pathways in response to systemic shocks
A nova ruralidade
The political ecology of Chilean salmon aquaculture, 1982–2010
Multiple Scales for Environmental Intervention
Spatial approach to sustainable development
Do firms adopt lower standards in poorer areas? Corporate social responsibility and environmental justice in the EU and the US
Environmental Risk Analysis
Exploring equity and sustainable development in the new carbon economy
Scenario-based stakeholder engagement
Governance and Capacity to Manage Resilience of Health Systems
Environmental governance
Evaluating taboo trade-offs in ecosystems services and human well-being
Redefining the Smart City
Transdisciplinary case studies as a means of sustainability learning
A comparison of the national sustainable development strategies for New Zealand and Scotland
From the Governance of Sustainability to the Management of Climate Change
Using Social Network Analysis to Evaluate Health-Related Adaptation Decision-Making in Cambodia
Citizen complaints as a new source of information for local environmental governance
Energy infrastructure transitions and environmental governance
Integrating forest management across the landscape
Poor online information on European marine protected areas impairs public participation under the Aarhus Convention
Economic and environmental efficiencies of greenhouse gases’ emissions under institutional influence
Rising temperatures, rising vulnerabilities
Natural resource governance in the Bulgarian Black Sea
Emerging Transformations in Material Use and Waste Practices in the Global South
Adaptation to extreme weather events in complex health and social care systems
Law Activation Strategies (LAS) in Environmental Policymaking
Can indigenous community-based monitoring act as a tool for sustainable self-determination
Theorizing ‘crisis’ as performative politics
Deciding how to make climate change adaptation decisions
Responding to Climate Change
Seeking justice
Governing coastal risks as a social process—Facilitating integrative risk management by enhanced multi-stakeholder collaboration
Identifying climate service production constraints to adaptation decision-making in Sweden
Bottom-up perspectives on nature conservation systems
Expanding theories of learning for adaptive governance
Putting “Place” in a multiscale context
Regulating the water-energy-food nexus
Fit-for-purpose governance
Decision-makers matter
Community-based forestry on federal lands in the western United States
Synergies and conflicts in the use of policy and planning instruments for implementing forest and woodland corridors and networks; a case study in NE Scotland
A governance framework for the design and evaluation of tree planting schemes
Equity and justice in climate change adaptation amongst natural-resource-dependent societies
Equity implications of marketing ecosystem services in protected areas and rural communities
Successful adaptation to climate change across scales
Interface bureaucrats and the everyday remaking of climate interventions
Scale mismatches and their ecological and economic effects on landscapes
Measuring effectiveness, efficiency and equity in an experimental Payments for Ecosystem Services trial
Public responses to climate change
Mapping the socio-political landscape of heat mitigation through urban greenspaces
Rethinking Monitoring in Smallholder Carbon Payments for Ecosystem Service Schemes
Payments for ecosystem services as commodity fetishism
Benefit Distribution and Equity in Ecuador's Socio Bosque Program
Environmental decisions and theories of justice
Environmental conservation and the production of new territories
Should payments for environmental services be used to implement zero-deforestation supply chain policies? The case of soy in the Brazilian Cerrado
What is the story with sustainability? A narrative analysis of diverse and contested understandings
Well-being outcomes of marine protected areas
Livelihoods, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Morogoro, Tanzania
Reconciling global and local benefits of forest restoration
The new rurality
Climate Change and Societal Response
Making space for unruly water
Towards governing spaces sustainably—reflections in the context of Auckland, New Zealand
Multi-level governance of British Columbia’s mountain pine beetle crisis
Adaptive governance in a complex social-ecological context
Recognizing, reinforcing, and strengthening community capacity through researcher–community partnerships
Towards Capturing Human Well-Being-Nature Relationships in Poverty Assessments in Rural Malawi and Rwanda
Using a social-ecological systems perspective to understand tourism and landscape interactions in coastal areas
A multi-layered governance framework for incorporating social science insights into adapting to the health impacts of climate change
British Columbia’s Fish Health Regulatory Framework’s Contribution to Sustainability Goals Related to Salmon Aquaculture
Thresholds and criteria for evaluating and communicating impact significance in environmental statements
Sustainable consumption, the new economics and community currencies
Partnerships as Instruments of Good Regional Governance
Implementing the Public Participation Principle into Water Management in the Czech Republic
Learning How to Deal with Values, Frames and Governance in Sustainability Appraisal
Universities as legal entities and community dispute resolution
Revitalizing indigenous practices employed by farmers to reduce agriculture’s vulnerability to climate change
Le concept d'adaptation
Interdisciplinarity in Sustainability Studies
Institutional ecological economics
Ecological Economics and Environmental History
Concepts of efficiency in ecological economics
Institutions and environmental governance
Developing post-normal technologies for sustainability
Environmental Policy
Governing the Commons
Revisiting the Commons
Mobile Flows, Storage, and Self-Organized Institutions for Governing Common-Pool Resources
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
The Interpretation of Cultures
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
The institute of development studies∗
Handbook of Qualitative Research
Economic Action and Social Structure
The Legitimation of Power
Institutions, climate change and cultural theory
Beyond Public Participation
Environmental Equity and the Conservation of Unique Ecosystems
Beyond Public Participation
The environmental justice debate
Demand-Side Factors and Environmental Equity Analysis
Beyond the Square Wheel
Common Property Institutions and Sustainable Governance of Resources
Implementing EU biodiversity policy
The Economy of the Earth
Suitable Locations
The economy of the earth
French Wetland Agriculture in Atlantic Canada and Its European Roots
Sustainable Development” in Geographic Perspective
The Reworking of Conservation Geographies
Contested Identities
Commentary
A Question of Justice
Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources
The Local Articulation of Policy Conflict
The Institutional Architecture of Extractive Reserves in Rondônia, Brazil
Environmentalists, Rubber Tappers and Empowerment
European Union Environmental Policy and the UK Government
Inequality, Environment, and Planning
Environment and Economy
Moral Ecological Rationality, Institutions and the Management of Common Property Resources
The Symbolic Making of a Common Property Resource
Standing to Sue
| Unique citing works | 139 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,04 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 119 |