The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation?

People and Nature

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Maria von Post¹  Åsa Knaggård³  Johanna Alkan Olsson²  Ola Olsson¹  Anna Sofie Persson²  Johan Ekroos² 

[1] Department of Biology, Biodiversity Unit, Lund University;Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Lund University;Department of Political Science, Lund University;Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki

关键词: biodiversity conservation;    ecosystem services;    environmental governance;    EU;    multifunctional landscapes;    policy assemblage;   

DOI  :  10.1002/pan3.10456

学科分类：护理学

来源: Wiley

【 摘 要 】

1. Green infrastructure (GI) is increasingly used in policymaking to promote biodiversity and enhance ecosystem services through the protection, creation, restoration and connection of natural and man-made green areas.2. The EU Commission adopted in 2013, the concept as a strategy. When memberstates apply the policy, it is translated into specific bureaucratic and political systems, creating different ‘policy assemblages’ of ideas and institutional features.3. We analyse the Swedish GI policy to draw conclusions about how it has been assembled in one particular member state and what that particular assemblage willimply for biodiversity conservation. In combination with understanding policiesas assemblages, we use the ‘What's the problem represented to be’-approach asmethod.4. We show that the Swedish GI policy assemblage consists of a mix of policy ideasdeveloped in Sweden and the EU. Despite the current strong focus on biodiversity conservation, the notion of land's multifunctionality, characterizing the EUstrategy and the possibility to conserve biodiversity on land used for purposesother than conservation increasingly influence the Swedish policy as it is formed.5. Although the policy has the potential to mainstream biodiversity conservationmeasures across different sectors, based on our analysis of current discourse, itsimplementation will likely promote GI measures less disruptive to existing landuse activities, making its capacity to halt biodiversity loss marginal.

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