Innovation and levels of governance Sample Clauses

Innovation and levels of governance. The implementation of successful and complex NBS projects requires of a great deal of innovation and the mobilisation of energies and resources available in the different sectors of the society. Xxxxxx analysed the relationship between innovation and the forms and practices of governance at urban context [58]. She developed an analytical scheme with a three-level approach to the interacting dimensions of urban governance that links episodes, processes and cultures of governance. The objective of this analytical framework is to evaluate actual governance situations and identify the dynamics that should be present in any governance mode that aims to facilitate innovative and transformative processes. This scheme explores the particular “balance” in any new governance initiative between “constraining and enabling forces” and the potential for the innovations in specific episodes “to spread to the wider governance context” (see Table 13). LEVELS OF GOVERNANCE DIMENSIONS QUALITIES OF CREATIVE MODES OF URBAN GOVERNANCE 1 Specific governance episodes Highly visible and experienced directly in the timescale of daily encounter and action. Actors – roles, strategies and interests Diverse actors Arenas – institutional sites Open, accessible and safe arenas Settings and interactive practices – communicative repertoires Ambiences are welcoming, respectful, knowledgeable and stimulating; with generative and insurgent potential 2 Governance processes that set rules of the game Where strategic projects for governance purposes are created and managed. Explicit struggles occur over access to the power to frame formal rules and resource flows, and over the ideologies and policy principles, which inform this framing work. Constrained not only by the particular capacities and interests of the actors involved (level 1), but also by more deeply embedded cultural assumptions (level 2). Could be a significant obstacle to the spread of social learning from specific episodes and to the development of a response to the pressures for greater relevance and legitimacy arising from changes at the socio- cultural level. Networks and coalitions Networks and coalitions are diverse and mutually aware, loosely-coupled and flexible Stakeholder selection processes Stakeholder selection processes are open, transparent, safe and flexible Discourses – framing issues, problems, solutions, etc. Open-minded, inclusive, informative and inventive discourses Practices – routines and repertoires for acti...