Acknowledgements
Contents
Contributors
Chapter 1: On the Reflexive Relations Between Knowledge, Governance, and Space
Framing Governance
Knowledge and Governance
How Knowledge Enables Governance
How Knowledge Drives the Effectiveness of Governance
How Governance Affects Learning and Innovation
Governance and Geography
Conclusion and Questions Ahead
References
Part I: How Knowledge Enables Governance
Chapter 2: Lessons from Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) for Governance in Conditions of Environmental Uncertainty
Governance and Knowledge
Governance Structure
Governance of Modern-Day Rapa Nui
Analysis of Governance Regimes: From CONAF to Ma’u Henua
Knowledge of the Past
Ecology and Rapa Nui
Questioning Assumptions of Rapa Nui Governance Failure
A New Understanding of Rapa Nui Prehistory: Five Things Now Known About the Island and Its Past
Collapse
Post-European Contact Events
Prehistoric Population Structure
Natural Resources of Rapa Nui
Moai Transportation
Explaining the Success of Rapa Nui
From the Past and Looking at the Future: Governance on Rapa Nui
Conclusions
References
Chapter 3: Knowledge of Governance as Knowledge for Governance: Spatialized Techniques of Neutralization
Methodology
Land-Use Planning, Techniques of Neutralization, and Spatiality
Land-Use Planning
Techniques of Neutralization and Spatiality
Spatialized Techniques of Neutralization
Denial of Responsibility: Political-Juridical Structures
Denial of Injury and Victim: Legitimating Economic Spatiality
The Condemnation of the Condemners: Ideological Spatiality I
Appeal to Higher Loyalties: Ideological Spatiality II
Neutralizing Space Through Time?
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: The Atmosphere of Democracy: Knowledge and Political Action
Society and Nature
Blaming Democracy
The Rise of Exceptional Circumstances
Inconvenient Democracy
The Erosion of Democracy: The Classical Perspective
The Erosion of Democracy: The Modern Perspective
Blaming the People
Blaming the Political Class
Are Democracies Dying?
Enlightened Leadership?
Science, Knowledge, and Democracy
What Is to Be Done? Enhancing Democracy?
Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: Risk Governance: From Knowledge to Regulatory Action
Governance Requirements for Complex Risks
Three Characteristics of Risk Knowledge
Complexity
Scientific Uncertainty
Sociopolitical Ambiguity
Adaptive and Integrative Capacity of Risk Governance
Preestimation
Interdisciplinary Risk Estimation
Risk Evaluation
Risk Management
Risk Communication
Inclusive Governance: The Need for an Effective Involvement of Experts, Stakeholders, and Civil Society
Instrumental Processing Involving Governmental Actors (Linear Mode)
Epistemic Processing Involving Experts and Stakeholders (Complex Mode)
Reflective Processing Involving Stakeholders (Uncertainty Mode)
Participative Processing Involving the Public (Ambiguity Mode)
Wider Governance Issues
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Knowledge and Governance: Can Systemic Risk in Financial Markets Be Managed? The Case of the Euro Crisis
Systemic Risk and Structural Power in the GFC
Solutions?
The Governance Literature
The Institutionalist Literature
Knowledge and Ideas
The Euro Crisis
Preventing the Crystallization of Systemic Risk Amidst the Euro Crisis
Conclusion
References
Part II: How Knowledge Drives the Effectiveness of Governance
Chapter 7: Explaining Subnational Governance: The Role of Governors’ Codified and Uncodified Knowledge
Explaining Governance Performance
Governors’ Codified Knowledge and Subnational Governance
Governors’ Uncodified Knowledge and Subnational Governance
Alternative Explanations of Subnational Governance Performance
Case Analysis: Mexican States and Colombian Departments
Mexican States
Colombian Departments
Data and Variable Operationalization
Assessing Governance Performance
Results
Discussions and Conclusions
References
Chapter 8: The (De-)Contextualization of Geographical Knowledge in Forest Fire Risk Management in Chile as a Challenge for Governance
The Challenges of Governing Economic Uncertainties
Methodology
Complexity, Ambiguity, Uncertainty? Forest Fire Risks in Chile
Complexity: Multidirectional Correlations Between Physical and Anthropogenic Factors
Ambiguity: The Coexistence of Several Equally Logical Explanations for Forest Fires in Chile
Uncertainty: Hidden Self-Reinforcing Social Amplification of Forest Fire Risk
The Complementarity of Risk Management Practices
Risk Management in Chilean Forestry
Risk Management in Insurance Companies
Mutually Complementary Risk Management Practices and Risk Avoidance Strategies
The Decontextualization of Risk and Risk Knowledge
Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: Carbon Markets, Values, and Modes of Governance
Market Governance at the Interface of Competing Logics and Modes of Organization
Technocratic Norms and Political Context
Methods of Analysis
Coded Concepts of Market-Based Governance
Advantages and opportunities
Disadvantages and challenges
Comparisons Between East and West
Statistical Analysis of Regional and Occupations Difference
The Role of Politics in Shaping Political Norms
Network Governance in the Context of Market Cultures
Market Perceptions: From General Claims to Specific Cases
References
Chapter 10: The Fight Against Corruption in Brazil: A Case of Good Governance?
The Brazilian Petrobras Plot
Institutional and Regulative Changes in Brazil: From Defective to Effective Institutions and Regulations?
The “Normalization of Corruption” on a Corporate Level
The Corporate Level Actors: Entrepreneurs and Top Managers
The Normalization of Political Corruption
The Political Actors: Political Leaders
A Case of Good Governance?
References
Chapter 11: Lateral Network Governance
The Puzzle of Governing Networks
The Governance Challenge
The Context of Governance: Network Cooperation
The Object of Governance
The Mechanisms of Governance
The Agency of Governance
Lateral Network Governance
The Logic of Negotiation and the Regime of Lateral Control
The Concept of Lateral Network Governance
Locally and Globally Legitimate Agents of Governance
Research Design
Two Organized Networks: Management Consulting and Dental Technology
Methodology: Measuring the Legitimate Delegation of Decision-Making Authority
Empirical Structures of Lateral Network Governance
Planned Versus Practiced Governance
Local Versus Global Legitimacy: Structures for the Delegation of Decision-Making Authority
Conclusion
References
Part III: How Governance Affects Learning and Innovation
Chapter 12: Knowledge and the Deliberative Stance in Democratic Systems: Harnessing Scepticism of the Self in Governing Global Environmental Change
Knowledge and Governance Systems in Climate Change
Deliberative Democracy: Reflexive Systems, Reflexive Citizens
Knowledge, Information, and Deliberation: A Case Study
Discursive Transformation
Knowledge, Reflexivity and Deliberative Systems
Systemic Deliberative Dynamics
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Chapter 13: Nurturing Adaptive Governance Through Environmental Monitoring: People, Practices, Politics in the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Region, South Africa
What Is Adaptive Governance?
Research Frontiers in Adaptive Governance Literature
Towards a People, Practices, and Politics Perspective on Adaptive Governance
Methods
The Case: Towards Adaptive Governance in the K2C Region
Results: Nurturing Adaptive Governance Through the Environmental Monitors Program
Generating Knowledge
Information-Sharing
Networking and Collaborating
Responding to Change
Revision of management actions and strategies
Fulfilling organizational mandates
Human development and capacity building
Concluding Discussion
References
Chapter 14: Ex Ante Knowledge for Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Introducing the Organizational Network Governance Approach
The Importance of Knowledge in Infectious Disease Outbreaks
The Research Context
The Research Challenge and Theoretical Approach
Introducing Network Analytical Tools for Studying Infectious Diseases Responses
Measures, Data Collection, and Data Analysis
The List of Actors in the Crisis-Response Networks
Data Collection and Types of Ties
Data Collection
Data Analysis
Results
Actors in the Two Networks
Actor Involvement in the Two Networks
Information Distribution in the Crisis-Response Networks
Discussion and Conclusion
Limitations and Future Research
Appendix
References
Chapter 15: Collective Learning and Institutional Collective Action in Fragmented Governance
ICA Foundations, Components, and Empirical Applications
Theoretical Foundations
Integrative Mechanisms, Transaction Costs, and Collaboration Risk
Empirical Applications for Knowledge Governance
Learning and Collective Action
Collective Learning Processes and Products in Governance
Three Pathways Linking Collective Learning to Institutional Collective Action
Path A: Collaboration Choices and Outcomes Influencing Collective Learning
Integrative mechanism choices and collective learning
Social networking, technology, and collective learning
Path B: Collective Learning Influencing Integrative Mechanisms Through Collaboration Risk Mitigation
Coordination risk
Division risk
Defection risk
Path C: Collective Learning Moderating the Collaboration Situation-Risk Linkage
Concluding Thoughts
References
Chapter 16: The Remapping of Forest Governance: From Shareholder to Stakeholder
Remapping Fordist Forestry as Paradigm Change
Fordist Forestry in British Columbia
Policy Uncertainty
Globalization and Forest Conflict Resolution: Shareholder and Stakeholder Models
Shareholder Impulses
Stakeholder Impulses
Assessing Stakeholder Remapping as an Emergent Form of Good Governance
Implications of Conflict Resolution for Trust and Cooperation
Conclusion
References
Chapter 17: The Governance of Global Innovation Systems: Putting Knowledge in Context
Broadening the Governance of Innovation Systems
Existing Perspectives on Innovation Systems in Transnational Contexts
Analyzing Global Innovation Systems: Introducing Multiscalar Relationships
Policy and Governance Implications of Global Innovations Systems
Innovation Governance in Spatially Sticky GISs
Innovation Governance in Footloose GISs
Innovation Governance in Market-Anchored GIS
Innovation Governance in Production-Anchored GIS
Policy and Governance Implications: Putting Knowledge in Context
References
Chapter 18: Experimentalist Systems in Manufacturing Multinationals: Recursivity and Continuous Learning Through Destabilization
Experimentalism Grows out of Uncertainty Associated with Changing Global Demand and Attendant Production Relocation
Global Strategies Governed by Self-Recomposing Experimentalist Learning Architectures Within MNCs and Across Supply Chains
What Is an Experimentalist Governance Architecture?
Endogenously Generated Barriers to Experimentalism’s Diffusion Within Manufacturing MNCs and How Improvement-Oriented Self-Surveillance Mechanisms Also Become Destabilization Mechanisms
Destabilization Mechanisms
Conclusion
References
Chapter 19: Networks as Facilitators of Innovation in Technology-Based Industries: The Case of Flat Glass
Some Conceptual Challenges
The Flat-Glass Industry—A Brief History
Today’s Flat Glass Industry
Conclusion: Looking at the Flat-Glass Industry from a Network Perspective
References
The Klaus Tschira Foundation
Index