期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
卷 131, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2022.01.019
关键词
Policy coherence; Intersectoral coordination; Coordinated results; 2030 Agenda; Water governance; Comparative case study research
资金
- German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) [02WGR1425C]
- Isfahan University of Technology
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) [57387479]
- German Development Institute (DIE)
Coherence and coordination are crucial for implementing the 2030 Agenda, but the causal relationship between policy coherence and coordination has not been thoroughly studied. Findings indicate that the functioning of a coordination body plays a significant role in translating functional and policy coherence into coordination at the process level. In addition, functional and policy incoherencies may lead to coordination problems or compensate with a high level of process-level coordination.
Coherence and coordination among interdependent policy sectors are considered key for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Literature on policy coherence argues that a lack of coordination may lead to policy incoherence; however, literature on coordination also sometimes points to the reversed causality that incoherencies in policies or in governance functions (functional incoherence) may hinder coordinated policy outcomes; in fact, these assumptions have rarely been further theorized or tested empirically. In this paper, we hypothesize the higher functional or policy coherence, the higher coordination at process level and the higher the likelihood that coordination at process level is translated into coordination at outcome level. We test this hypothesis for cross-sectoral coordination challenges among different water using sectors in six different basins located in Germany, Iran, Mongolia, Spain, and South Africa. At first glance, four cases seem to confirm the first part of the hypothesis for functional coherence and three for policy coherence. It remains difficult to establish causality. Whether functional and policy coherence translate into coordination at process level seems to depend on a functioning coordination body. We further find that functional and policy incoherencies may either lead to coordination problems (in view of conflicts of interest) or even go along with a high level of coordination at the process level, possibly to compensate for incoherencies. Neither functional nor policy coherence change the relationship of coordination at process and outcome level. To explain coordination at the outcome level, other factors need to be considered.
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