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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments November 1, 2011 erstellt
Description:
This paper examines the new collaborative environmental governance, an enterprise that involves collaboration between a diversity of private, public and non-government stakeholders who, acting together towards commonly agreed goals, hope to achieve far more collectively, than individually. Such an approach appears to blur the familiar sharp boundaries that separate ‘the state' from civil society, yet we still know very little about exactly what this blurring of public and private adds up to, and what its implications are.This paper examines this new form of governance through the lens of three Australian case studies. Each of these studies involves participatory dialogue, flexibility, inclusiveness, transparency, institutionalised consensus-building practices, and, at least to some extent, a shift from hierarchy to heterarchy. The paper examines the relationships between new and old governance, the architecture of these new initiatives, the role of the state and the importance of negotiating in ‘the shadow of hierarchy'