Wasting collaboration potential: A study in urban green space governance in a post-transition country

Jakub Kronenberg, Agata Pietrzyk-Kaszyńska, Anita Zbieg and Błażej Żak

Environmental Science & Policy, 2016, vol. 62, issue C, 69-78

Abstract: Most accounts of urban green space governance originate in cities where such initiatives have been successful. Meanwhile, there is too little information on cities where such initiatives develop with more difficulty. In order to overcome the problems that such cities face, their situations need to be studied more carefully to facilitate peer comparisons. This article provides an account of urban green space governance in three cities in Poland (Krakow, Lodz, Poznan), where environmental protection is still quite far down on the list of political priorities. With the use of a social network analysis we looked at the extent of relationships between different stakeholders and the roles of different actors within the network. The results indicate that the network's collaboration potential is barely used and that cross-sectoral collaboration is especially deficient. In particular, public institutions hold a relatively strong position and downplay the role of other actors. More collaboration is necessary and the potential bridging role of NGOs should be used to a larger extent. However, this requires more openness and trust within the network.

Keywords: Social network analysis; Post-socialist city; Urban green infrastructure; Governance; Cross-sectoral collaboration; NGOs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.06.018

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