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| Brouwer, Stijn; VU University Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM); stijn.brouwer@ivm.vu.nl; Biermann, Frank; VU University Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM); frank.biermann@ivm.vu.nl. |
| The growing awareness of the complexities and uncertainties in water management has put into question the existing paradigms in this field. Increasingly more flexible, integrated, and adaptive policies are promoted. In this context, the understanding of how to effect policy change is becoming more important. This article analyzes policy making at the micro level, focusing on the behavior of policy entrepreneurs, which we understand here as risk-taking bureaucrats who seek to change policy and are involved throughout the policy-change process. Policy entrepreneurs have received a certain level of attention in the adaptive co-management literature and the policy sciences in past decades. Yet, the understanding of the actions they can take to facilitate... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Policy change; Policy entrepreneurs; Strategies; Water management; Windows of opportunity. |
| Ano: 2011 |
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| Huitema, Dave; Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam; dave.huitema@ivm.vu.nl; Meijerink, Sander; Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University Nijmegen; S.Meijerink@fm.ru.nl. |
| This special feature aims to further our understanding of the way in which transitions occur in water management. We contend that if we want to understand such transitions, we need to understand policy change and its opposite, policy stability. These issues have attracted considerable academic attention. Our interest is, however, very specific and thereby unique: we review the role that (groups of) individuals play in the process of preparing, instigating, and implementing policy change. In this article, a review of the literature on policy change provides the basis from which we extract a set of strategies which are available to policy entrepreneurs. The questions for the rest of this special feature are first, can we detect the influence of policy... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Case studies; Policy change; Policy entrepreneurs; Transition management; Water management. |
| Ano: 2010 |
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| Wang, Meinong; Liu, Xu; Wang, Bo. |
| The importance and necessity of implementing the balance system of farmland requisition and compensation are reasoned. The changing path of the balance system of farmland requisition-compensation is overviewed. In addition, the problems exist in the implementation of the balance system of farmland requisition-compensation are analyzed as well, covering the increasing demands on land in the process of economic development; the serious phenomenon of wasting land in urban construction; part of farmlands should be revoked from the perspective of ecological construction and environmental protection, which lead to the shortage of reserved farmlands and it is hard to implement the balance system of farmland requisition-compensation; the problems of “occupying... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Requisition-compensation balance; Farmland protection; Policy change; China; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/101893 |
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