Outcomes of Collaborative Water Policy Making: Applying Complexity Thinking to Evaluation Export

@article{citeulike:3851565, abstract = {Collaborative policy making has become increasingly significant in environmental management, but it is often evaluated by whether or not agreement is reached and implemented. The most important outcomes of such policy dialogues are often invisible or undervalued when seen through the lens of a traditional, modernist paradigm of government and accountability. These dialogues represent a new paradigm of governance that can be best understood in the light of a complex adaptive system model of society. From this perspective collaborative policy making is a way of making a system more flexible, adaptive and intelligent. The authors document such outcomes in three cases of water policy making in California, including the San Francisco Estuary Project, the CALFED Bay-Delta Program and the Sacramento Area Water Forum. The outcomes include social and political capital, agreed-on information, the end of stalemates, high-quality agreements, learning and change, innovation and new practices involving networks and flexibility.}, author = {Connick, Sarah and Innes, Judith E.}, citeulike-article-id = {3851565}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0964056032000070987}, doi = {10.1080/0964056032000070987}, journal = {Journal of Environmental Planning and Management}, keywords = {collaborative, environment, policy}, number = {2}, pages = {177--197}, posted-at = {2009-01-06 00:44:27}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Routledge}, title = {Outcomes of Collaborative Water Policy Making: Applying Complexity Thinking to Evaluation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0964056032000070987}, volume = {46}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3851565 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3851565 N2 - Collaborative policy making has become increasingly significant in environmental management, but it is often evaluated by whether or not agreement is reached and implemented. The most important outcomes of such policy dialogues are often invisible or undervalued when seen through the lens of a traditional, modernist paradigm of government and accountability. These dialogues represent a new paradigm of governance that can be best understood in the light of a complex adaptive system model of society. From this perspective collaborative policy making is a way of making a system more flexible, adaptive and intelligent. The authors document such outcomes in three cases of water policy making in California, including the San Francisco Estuary Project, the CALFED Bay-Delta Program and the Sacramento Area Water Forum. The outcomes include social and political capital, agreed-on information, the end of stalemates, high-quality agreements, learning and change, innovation and new practices involving networks and flexibility. IS - 2 JF - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management EP - 197 TI - Outcomes of Collaborative Water Policy Making: Applying Complexity Thinking to Evaluation PB - Routledge VL - 46 SP - 177 KW - collaborative KW - environment KW - policy AU - Connick, Sarah AU - Innes, Judith PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0964056032000070987 ER -