Abstract
Reconciling Stakeholder demands by enacting a post normal approach within nutrient governance
3rd Bonus Symposium Book of Abstracts, p.51
Bonus Symposium: Sustainable ecosystem governance under changing climate and land use, 3rd (Gdańsk, Poland, 14-Mar-2018–16-Mar-2018)
2018
Abstract
Understanding how to govern nutrient emissions from the 634 sub basins1 that make up the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) has baffled policy and scientific communities for decades. Nutrient governance is characterised by high degrees of uncertainty, controversy and power brokering, conditions which tend to be amplified with climate change. These conditions are referred to as post-normal situtions in which facts are uncertain, complexity is the norm, values are in dispute, stakes are high and decisions are urgent. In spite of this, they are still considered to be objectively knowable by both the policy and the scientific community. As a response, a post-normal scientific approach has been enacted to reconcile stakeholder demands and support innovative governance reconfigurations in the BSR, by drawing on insights emerging from the four case studies in the BONUS-MIRACLE project, including Berze (Latvia), Helge (Sweden), Reda (Poland) and Selke (Germany). In all the case studies, a systemic issue was identified and deployed as a key vehicle to orchestrate the social learning process and create a platform for co-learning and deliberation among a diverse set of stakeholders. In so doing, it can arguably infuse both a systemic and intersubjective cognizance of existing governance configurations and those under development.
Details
- Title
- Reconciling Stakeholder demands by enacting a post normal approach within nutrient governance
- Authors
- Neil Powell (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawT Do (Author)O Olsson (Author)M Osbeck (Author)G Schwarz (Author)A Tonderski (Author)A Zilans (Author)K Veideman (Author)K Tonderski (Author)
- Contributors
- B Hasler (Editor)K Hyytiänen (Editor)K Joyce (Editor)M Ollikainen (Editor)J C Refsgaard (Editor)N Stelljes (Editor)A Tonderski (Editor)K Tonderski (Editor)
- Publication details
- 3rd Bonus Symposium Book of Abstracts, p.51
- Conference details
- Bonus Symposium: Sustainable ecosystem governance under changing climate and land use, 3rd (Gdańsk, Poland, 14-Mar-2018–16-Mar-2018)
- Publisher
- Bonus Symposium
- Date published
- 2018
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451507302621
- Output Type
- Abstract
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