Network Governance and Policy Integration—the Case of Regional Coastal Zone Planning in Norway

Sissel Hovik and Knut Bjørn Stokke

European Planning Studies, 2006, vol. 15, issue 7, 927-944

Abstract: Integrated coastal zone management is characterized as a complex management situation, demanding integration across geographical borders, different policy sectors and levels of government. In Norway, the county municipalities are encouraged to take responsibility for achieving integration through regional coastal zone planning. Inspired by literature on network governance, the authors elaborate on how integration capacity might depend on an open and inclusive planning process and on the importance of conditions influencing the actors' perceived payoffs from participation. The result indicates that central actors benefiting from cooperation are more important in explaining the integration capacity, than the characteristics of the planning process itself. This illustrates the importance of the distribution of power and interdependencies among the actors in such processes.

Date: 2006
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