The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation?
Abstract Green infrastructure (GI) is increasingly used in policymaking to promote biodiversity and enhance ecosystem services through the protection, creation, restoration and connection of natural and man‐made green areas. The EU Commission adopted in 2013, the concept as a strategy. When member s...
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| author | Maria vonPost Åsa Knaggård Johanna Alkan Olsson Ola Olsson Anna Sofie Persson Johan Ekroos |
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| description | Abstract Green infrastructure (GI) is increasingly used in policymaking to promote biodiversity and enhance ecosystem services through the protection, creation, restoration and connection of natural and man‐made green areas. The EU Commission adopted in 2013, the concept as a strategy. When member states apply the policy, it is translated into specific bureaucratic and political systems, creating different ‘policy assemblages’ of ideas and institutional features. We analyse the Swedish GI policy to draw conclusions about how it has been assembled in one particular member state and what that particular assemblage will imply for biodiversity conservation. In combination with understanding policies as assemblages, we use the ‘What's the problem represented to be’‐approach as method. We show that the Swedish GI policy assemblage consists of a mix of policy ideas developed in Sweden and the EU. Despite the current strong focus on biodiversity conservation, the notion of land's multifunctionality, characterizing the EU strategy and the possibility to conserve biodiversity on land used for purposes other than conservation increasingly influence the Swedish policy as it is formed. Although the policy has the potential to mainstream biodiversity conservation measures across different sectors, based on our analysis of current discourse, its implementation will likely promote GI measures less disruptive to existing land use activities, making its capacity to halt biodiversity loss marginal. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f21e276b26a5465b870aae25dbef65c12023-04-03T08:43:59ZengWileyPeople and Nature2575-83142023-04-015283985110.1002/pan3.10456The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation?Maria vonPost0Åsa Knaggård1Johanna Alkan Olsson2Ola Olsson3Anna Sofie Persson4Johan Ekroos5Department of Biology, Biodiversity Unit Lund University Lund SwedenDepartment of Political Science Lund University Lund SwedenCentre for Environmental and Climate Science Lund University Lund SwedenDepartment of Biology, Biodiversity Unit Lund University Lund SwedenCentre for Environmental and Climate Science Lund University Lund SwedenCentre for Environmental and Climate Science Lund University Lund SwedenAbstract Green infrastructure (GI) is increasingly used in policymaking to promote biodiversity and enhance ecosystem services through the protection, creation, restoration and connection of natural and man‐made green areas. The EU Commission adopted in 2013, the concept as a strategy. When member states apply the policy, it is translated into specific bureaucratic and political systems, creating different ‘policy assemblages’ of ideas and institutional features. We analyse the Swedish GI policy to draw conclusions about how it has been assembled in one particular member state and what that particular assemblage will imply for biodiversity conservation. In combination with understanding policies as assemblages, we use the ‘What's the problem represented to be’‐approach as method. We show that the Swedish GI policy assemblage consists of a mix of policy ideas developed in Sweden and the EU. Despite the current strong focus on biodiversity conservation, the notion of land's multifunctionality, characterizing the EU strategy and the possibility to conserve biodiversity on land used for purposes other than conservation increasingly influence the Swedish policy as it is formed. Although the policy has the potential to mainstream biodiversity conservation measures across different sectors, based on our analysis of current discourse, its implementation will likely promote GI measures less disruptive to existing land use activities, making its capacity to halt biodiversity loss marginal. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10456biodiversity conservationecosystem servicesenvironmental governanceEUmultifunctional landscapespolicy assemblage |
| spellingShingle | Maria vonPost Åsa Knaggård Johanna Alkan Olsson Ola Olsson Anna Sofie Persson Johan Ekroos The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation? People and Nature biodiversity conservation ecosystem services environmental governance EU multifunctional landscapes policy assemblage |
| title | The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation? |
| title_full | The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation? |
| title_fullStr | The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation? |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation? |
| title_short | The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation? |
| title_sort | swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage what does it do for biodiversity conservation |
| topic | biodiversity conservation ecosystem services environmental governance EU multifunctional landscapes policy assemblage |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10456 |
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