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Avoiding the presumptive policy errors of intergovernmental environmental planning programmes: a case analysis of urban stormwater management planning

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  • Peter Morison
  • Rebekah Brown

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This social research aims to identify and examine the implementation presumptions of intergovernmental environmental planning programmes and how to improve their effectiveness in future practice. It contrasts and explains the organisational dynamics and implementation responses of municipalities that succeeded and failed in realising the objective of such a programme. The research involved a qualitative multiple-case comparison between four high- and four low-performing municipalities implementing a stormwater programme within metropolitan Sydney, Australia. These two organisational types substantially differed in corporate expertise, environmental leadership, extended relational activity, and overall disposition to learning and ownership of local environmental issues. The paper identified five presumptions underpinning the programme design which privileged the high-performing organisations, but did little to garner commitment and develop capacity among the low-performing group. These implementation insights not only provide guideposts for intergovernmental programme design, but also reveal how policy design can undermine policy intent if empathy to local organisational dynamics is lacking.

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  • Peter Morison & Rebekah Brown, 2010. "Avoiding the presumptive policy errors of intergovernmental environmental planning programmes: a case analysis of urban stormwater management planning," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(2), pages 197-217.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:53:y:2010:i:2:p:197-217
    DOI: 10.1080/09640560903529329
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    1. Darla Hatton MacDonald & Brenda Dyack, 2004. "Exploring the Institutional Impediments to Conservation and Water Reuse - National Issues. A Report for the Australian Water Conservation and Reuse Research Program (AWCRRP.)," Natural Resource Management Economics 04_002, Policy and Economic Research Unit, CSIRO Land and Water, Adelaide, Australia.
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    1. Yong Jiang & Chris Zevenbergen & Dafang Fu, 2017. "Understanding the challenges for the governance of China’s “sponge cities” initiative to sustainably manage urban stormwater and flooding," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 89(1), pages 521-529, October.
    2. Bos, J.J. & Brown, R.R., 2014. "Assessing organisational capacity for transition policy programs," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 188-206.
    3. Jatta Pitkänen & Hanna Lehtimäki & Ari Jokinen, 2023. "Sustainability Project Champions as Environmental Leaders in a City Organization: Driving the Urban Circular Economy," South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, , vol. 12(1), pages 52-64, April.
    4. Simon Peter Muwafu & Lena Rölfer & Jürgen Scheffran & María Máñez Costa, 2024. "A framework for assessing social structure in community governance of sustainable urban drainage systems: insights from a literature review," Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Springer, vol. 29(5), pages 1-19, June.

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