Polycentric port governance

Jason Monios

Transport Policy, 2019, vol. 83, issue C, 26-36

Abstract: This paper applies the theory of polycentric governance to the port sector. The paper demonstrates that port governance is already polycentric, including a variety of actors at different scales with overlapping jurisdictions, but some of the established principles of effective polycentric governance such as collective choice arrangements and distribution of costs are not currently in place. This has resulted in an inability to manage current challenges, which can be broadly divided into environmental challenges (emissions and other pollution, adapting to climate change impacts such as sea level rise and storms) and port investment challenges (conflicts related to port capacity developments).

Keywords: Port governance; Policy; Maritime transport; Institutions; Polycentric; Multilevel governance; Scale; Planning; Hierarchical governance; Shipping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.08.005

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