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Governance for Sustainable Development Berlin, Feb 6, 2006 Marco P tz WSL

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Governance for Sustainable Development Berlin, Feb 6, 2006 Marco P tz WSL

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    1. 1 Governance for Sustainable Development | Berlin, Feb 6, 2006 | Marco Pütz | WSL

    2. 2 OVERVIEW

    3. 3 REGIONAL GOVERNANCE

    4. 4 POWER (1) Modes of Power Power over somebody/something (hierarchical-instrumental) Power to do or not to do something (funtional-strategic) Power vs. discourse

    5. 5 POWER (2)

    6. 6 Analysing power Assumption: sustainable development is restricted by power asymmetries Focus: interactions in a specific context, here: land use planning in the Munich metropolitan region Land use conflict IKEA Munich Different phases with different actor-constellations Private and public interests Economic competition between municipalities Different goals and objectives in sectoral administration POWER IN LAND USE PLANNING (1)

    7. 7 Power resources ? Actors Land owner Ikea (investor) Local planning authorities (municipalites of Taufkirchen and Brunnthal) Regional planning authorities for approval of local planning Structural power(lessness) ? Scales Different planning authorities with different goals and objectives Administratives boundaries do not represent the spatiality of real world problems Local economic competition without regional coordination POWER IN LAND USE PLANNING (2)

    8. 8 The case study shows, that … … land use planning is powered by governance and governed by power; … the regional governance capacity suffers from competing goals and power asymmetries. Governance for sustainable development needs … … the "shadow of hierarchy"; … the balancing of power (re-scaling of power relations); CONCLUSIONS

    9. 9 What I always wanted to know about governance How can (regional) governance be operationalised for empirical research? What are the appropriate terms and concepts to understand how governance works (power, regulation, social capital, …)? How to deal with complexity (interdependency of actors, interactions, scales, …)? How can the regional governance capacity be increased and improved? RESEARCH QUESTIONS

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