The politics of reflexive governance: challenges for designing adaptive management and transition management

Voß, Jan-Peter; Bornemann, Basil

The politics of reflexive governance: challenges for designing adaptive management and transition management

dc.contributor.author	Voß, Jan-Peter	en
dc.contributor.author	Bornemann, Basil	en
dc.date.accessioned	2015-11-21T00:37:57Z
dc.date.available	2015-06-25T12:00:00Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.description.abstract	New concepts of governance take account of ambivalence, uncertainty, and distributed power in societal change. They aim for reflexivity regarding the limits of prognostic knowledge and actual control of complex processes of change. Adaptive management and transition management are two examples that evolved from the analysis of social–ecological and sociotechnical systems, respectively. Both feature strategies of collective experimentation and learning. In this paper, we ask how these two designs of reflexive governance consider politics. Based on a framework of different dimensions and levels of politics, we show that they are mainly concerned with problem solving by a focal process, but conflict and asymmetric power relations, as well as the embedding of processes within broader political contexts, are neglected. We suggest two routes for integrating politics into the design of reflexive governance: (1) recognize the politics of learning for sustainable development and develop safeguards against domination and capture by powerful actors, and (2) systematically consider the embedding of governance designs in political contexts and their ongoing dynamics for political fit.	en
dc.identifier.eissn	1708-3087
dc.identifier.uri	urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus4-66749
dc.identifier.uri	https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/4780
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-4483
dc.language	English	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject.ddc	330 Wirtschaft	en
dc.subject.ddc	570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie	en
dc.subject.other	adaptives Management	de
dc.subject.other	gesellschaftliches Lernen	de
dc.subject.other	Governance	de
dc.subject.other	Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject.other	politischer Kontext	de
dc.subject.other	transition management	en
dc.subject.other	adaptive management	en
dc.subject.other	embedding in political context	en
dc.subject.other	governance design	en
dc.subject.other	politics	en
dc.subject.other	reflexive governance	en
dc.subject.other	societal learning	en
dc.title	The politics of reflexive governance: challenges for designing adaptive management and transition management	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.type.version	publishedVersion	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber	9	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue	2	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle	Ecology and Society : a Journal of Integrative Science for Resilience and Sustainability	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername	Resilience Alliance	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Wolfville (Canada)	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume	16	en
tub.accessrights.dnb	domain	*
tub.affiliation	Fak. 6 Planen Bauen Umwelt::Inst. Soziologie::FG Soziologie der Politik	de
tub.affiliation.faculty	Fak. 6 Planen Bauen Umwelt	de
tub.affiliation.group	FG Soziologie der Politik	de
tub.affiliation.institute	Inst. Soziologie	de
tub.identifier.opus4	6674
tub.publisher.universityorinstitution	Technische Universität Berlin	en

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