The Impact of Institutional Innovation on a Public Tender: The Case of Madrid Metropolitan Forest

Sara Romero-Muñoz, Manuel Alméstar (), Teresa Sánchez-Chaparro and Víctor Muñoz Sanz
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Sara Romero-Muñoz: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Montes, Forestal y del Medio Natural, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Manuel Alméstar: Climate-KIC Holding B.V., 46980 Valencia, Spain
Teresa Sánchez-Chaparro: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Víctor Muñoz Sanz: Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 6, 1-20

Abstract: The introduction of forests in cities has been an observable trend in recent years, with planned forest management projects proliferating around the world. The fact that many urban forests in the public space are traditionally managed by top-down bureaucratic procedures and guided by expert knowledge raises questions about whether green areas should follow the same management approach as other urban infrastructures, such as mobility infrastructures, or whether they should explore a collaborative approach designed to engage diverse stakeholders. This article examines the challenges of innovating in urban forests, changing the management rules that may limit participatory and deliberative processes to support decision-making. In particular, we analyzed how introducing a co-creation stage impacted the traditional competitive public tender procedure in the Madrid Metropolitan Forest project, using the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. Results showed that the costs and benefits of innovation differ among involved actors, generating unintended deterrent effects for experimentation. To mitigate these decoupling effects, we suggest a strategic design of working rules and updating the shared incentive to move from a competitive and transactional logic to a more collaborative and co-creative form of connection.

Keywords: urban forest management; institutional analysis; IAD framework; case study method; ethnographic fieldwork analysis; innovation; cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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