Embedding ecosystem services ideas into policy processes: an institutional analysis

Russel, Duncan and Turnpenny, John (2020) Embedding ecosystem services ideas into policy processes: an institutional analysis. Ecology and Society, 25 (1). ISSN 1708-3087

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Abstract

What helps or limits the use of ecosystem services ideas in practice? In this paper we develop and test a new institutionalistbased analytical scheme to explore how ecosystem services as a “new” policy idea might interact with established policy regimes, processes, and norms. The scheme is based on three different decision-making levels: micro, meso, and macro. To test the plausibility of the scheme, it is applied to the case of the UK where a specific ecosystem services framework (ESF) was prioritized as a new way of doing environmental policy after 2011. Drawing on findings from 32 elite interviews, the paper shows how dynamics at all three levels intersect with differing institutional explanations. It helps explain important factors for embedding, or restricting embedding, of the ESF in policy making. The scheme provides a useful way to link analysis of the “lived experience” of policy actors implementing the ESF with the institutional landscape they occupy, and allows for a nuanced and integrated analysis of the potential barriers faced by ecosystem services ideas generally.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: ecosystem services framework,embedding,environmental policy making,institutionalism,ecology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2303
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Science, Society and Sustainability
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy
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Date Deposited: 11 Dec 2019 02:33
Last Modified: 20 Oct 2023 01:14
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/73346
DOI: 10.5751/ES-11342-250109

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