Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Johanna Hedlund
- Stockholm University, Department of Zoology
Description
Policy actors address complex environmental problems by engaging in multiple and often interdependent policy issues. Policy issue interdependencies imply that efforts by actors to address separate policy issues can either reinforce (‘win-win’) or counteract (‘trade-off’) each other. Thus, if interdependent issues are managed in isolation instead of being coordinated, the most effective and well-balanced solution to the underlying problem might never be realised. This study asks if reinforcing and counteracting interdependencies have different impacts on perception and collaboration. Our empirical study of collaborative water governance in the Norrström basin, Sweden, shows that policy actors often avoid collaborating when the policy issues exhibit reinforcing interdependencies. Our evidence indicates a perceived infeasibility of acting on reinforcing interdependencies. We also find that actors do not consider counteracting interdependencies (‘trade-offs’) at all when they engage in collaboration. Further, even though actors were aware of counteracting and reinforcing interdependencies, our ana
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English
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Responsible department/unit
Department of Zoology
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No
Unit of analysis
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Policy actors
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Time period(s) investigated
2017 – 2020
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden, Stockholm County, Västmanland County
Geographic description: Norrström drainage basin
Research area
Environment and conservation, Energy and natural resources, Natural landscapes, Government, political systems and organisations
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Environmental Sciences, Public Administration Studies, Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Hedlund, J., Nohrstedt, D., Morrison, T. et al. Challenges for environmental governance: policy issue interdependencies might not lead to collaboration. Sustain Sci (2022).
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01145-8
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This dataset consists of social network analysis data and policy issue network data. Network data consists of nodes (rows and columns) and links (matrix cells). In the social network data, rows and columns represent actors and matrix cells their collaboration. 1 indicates collaboration, 0 indicates no collaboration. In the policy issue network data, rows and columns represent policy issues, and matrix cells their reinforcing or counteracting interdependencies. Two different policy issue networks
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https://doi.org/10.5878/jk9y-rb40
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Johanna Hedlund
- Stockholm University, Department of Zoology
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