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Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 22, 2022
Communications Officer
School of Public Policy | Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
Summary Sentence:
The article analyzes governance structures that create effective sustainability collaborations.
Full Summary:
The article analyzes governance structures that create effective sustainability collaborations.
Brian AnBrian An, assistant professor in the School of Public Policy, was lead author on an article recently published in Environmental Science & Policy. The article was titled “Managing environmental change through inter-agency collaboration: Protective governance in mandated sustainability planning.”
In it, An and his co-authors address how the risk of losing autonomy sometimes dissuades organizations from joining collaborative sustainability institutions. They argue that when rules exist that protect individual organizations’ autonomy, more diverse groups are likely to join, and confidence in the collaboration’s work increases. Through data analysis of similar groundwater sustainability efforts in California, the authors find that inclusive representation, unweighted voting power structures, and unanimity decision rules create effective protective governance structures.
The full article can be read at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.08.024.
