2. Why does this matter?
Because governance is becoming
increasingly complex, and provides more
space for self-organization!
Compare with Folke et al (2005)
3. Global changes in the political
landscape
Decentralization
Public Private Partnerships
Non-governmental organizations
International agreements
4. Centralized decision-making
Central policy-maker (e.g. environmental
ministry)
Regional or local state authorities
Local natural resource users
Decision-making
Implementation and monitoring
Behavioral response
5. Decision-making in complex
governance systems
Central policy-maker (e.g. environmental ministry)
Regional or local state authorities
Local natural resource users
Decision-making,
implementation,
negotiations,
partnerships
Implementation, monitoring,
negotiations, partnerships
International norms, agreements
Decentralization
Non-state actors
6. Adaptive Management
Adaptive Co-management
Holling (1978): AM, iterated process in the face of
uncertainty, experimentation, continuous evaluations
Co-management!
Adaptive, learning, sharing of
decision-making btw
stakeholders
Fikret Berkes and colleagues
7. Adaptive Governance
Extension of adaptive co-management:
* not place bound
* can include and explore, several place bound
attempts of ACM at the same time
* polycentric
* higher levels of social organization, up to global
* explorative framework!
9. Making Sense of Complexity in Governance
All systems don’t look the same!
Two approaches
i) Governance typologies
ii) Network typologies
10. Governance typology, example
- Urban Governance
Jon Pierre and Guy B. Peters
Participants
Objectives
Instruments
Outcomes
.....
11. Urban Governance388 URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW / January 1999
TABLE 1: Models of Urban Governance: Defining Characteristics
Models of Urban Governance
Defining Characteristics Managerial Corporatist Progrowth Welfare
Policy objectives Efficiency Distribution Growth Redistribution
Policy style Pragmatic Ideological Pragmatic Ideological
Nature of political exchange Consensus Conflict Consensus Conflict
Nature of public-private exchange Competitive Concerted Interactive Restrictive
Local state-citizen relationship Exclusive Inclusive Exclusive Inclusive
Primary contingency Professionals Civic leaders Business The state
Key instruments Contracts Deliberations Partnerships Networks
Pattern of subordination Positive Negative Positive Negative
Key evaluative criterion Efficiency Participation Growth Equity
From Pierre (1999), Urban Affairs Review
12. ii) Network typologies - polycentric systems
Vincent Ostrom
Polycentric systems - many
centers of decision making that are
formally independent of each other.
“Many elements are capable of
making mutual adjustments for
ordering their relationships with
one another within a general
system of rules where each
element acts with independence of
other elements.”