Focusing on public policy analysis, this text offers a model tailored for practitioners in Switzerland and France, providing practical insights and real-world examples. It aims to enhance understanding of policy dynamics and equip readers with tools to apply analytical methods to everyday situations, making it a valuable resource for those involved in public administration and policy-making.
The book presents a structured analysis of ten essential public policy resources, including force, law, and information. It builds on Knoepfel's earlier work to provide a comprehensive understanding of how these resources interact and influence public policy outcomes. By examining elements such as personal influence, financial resources, and political support, the author offers valuable insights into the dynamics of policy-making and the importance of each resource in achieving effective governance.
Institutional Regime Change and Actors' Mode of Participation in the Environmental Management of the Bonfol Chemical Waste Landfill in Switzerland
Contaminated sites became a critical environmental challenge in the late 1970s, affecting even prosperous nations like Switzerland, which faces around 38,000 contaminated locations due to past waste management practices. The authors argue for the importance of open and polycentric decision-making that involves civil society in addressing this issue. They frame environmental management as a political process, highlighting how institutions shape the interactions among various stakeholders with potentially conflicting interests.
Having had the opportunity of receiving considerable public money (mainly from the Swiss National Science Foundation) for numerous en- ronmental policy studies in Switzerland and abroad during the last 25 years, I have decided to put the results – published mainly in German and French but also in English in many scientific journals, monographs and book sections – in a single book on behalf of my students, younger sch- ars interested in policy analysis dating from the period of the first en- ronmental policies, and my friends teaching this subject in Switzerland and abroad. The criteria used to select the fifteen contributions were their impact on the scientific debate at the time of their publication, their validity for p- sent conceptualizations of policy analysis in the field of the environment, 1 and their contribution to the development of policy analysis as a whole . Moreover, the selected contributions mainly focus on empirical appli- tions in the field of environmental policies or the interface between en- ronmental and non-environmental policies. Some have led to concrete p- icy recommendations of which most have been partly implemented since, at least within my own country. This research also sometimes addressed regional political administrative arrangements leading to administrative reforms and new strategic directions of implementing agencies.
Landschaft ist eine immaterielle Ressource, die prinzipiell nicht von denselben Akteuren genutzt wird, die die jeweiligen Basisressourcen wie Boden, Wasser usw. nutzen. Landschaftskonflikte lassen sich daher nur lösen, wenn sich die beteiligten Akteure darüber einigen, wie die vorbestandenen Eigentums- und Nutzungsrechte sowie -ansprüche zu lesen sind. Die Autoren zeigen, dass Landschaftsvermittler wie Verkehrsvereine, Ferienorganisatoren oder Naturschutzorganisationen oft das Zünglein an der Waage spielen, wenn es darum geht, Eigentümer von Basisressourcen von Beeinträchtigungen abzuhalten. Landscape is an immaterial resource generally used by actors other than those that depend directly on its fundamental resources such as soil, water and forests. Landscape conflicts can be solved only if the actors involved reach an agreement regarding the interpretation of use rights to the landscape. The authors demonstrate that landscape facilitators, including tourist information offices, tour operators and nature conservation organisations, often play a decisive role in preventing the owners of basic resources from impairing landscape.