Dealing with cross-sectoral policy problems: An advocacy coalition approach to climate and water policy integration in Northeast Brazil

Milhorance Carolina, Le Coq Jean-François, Sabourin Eric. 2021. Dealing with cross-sectoral policy problems: An advocacy coalition approach to climate and water policy integration in Northeast Brazil. Policy Sciences, 54 : 557-578.

Quartile : Q1, Sujet : PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION / Quartile : Q1, Sujet : SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Liste HCERES des revues (en SHS) : oui

Thème(s) HCERES des revues (en SHS) : Droit; Science politique

Résumé : The governance of several cross-cutting challenges, such as food security, climate change, and sustainable development, calls for integrative policy approaches. However, efforts to better theorize the drivers of integration beyond listing explanatory factors remain weak. Viewing integration as a process of policy change for dealing with complex problems, this study argues that policy integration analysis can benefit from an advocacy coalition approach (ACF) to address this theoretical gap. It illustrates the analytical framework by empirically investigating the drivers of policy (dis)integration in Brazil's subnational water policy introduced in the 2010s. The level of conflict between coalitions, adjustment of policy beliefs, coordination within and across coalitions, and existence of venues for interaction and policy-oriented learning were presented as factors that can foster or hinder the integration of public policies. Moreover, the study discusses the potential to acknowledge in ACF the mechanisms for coordinating policy actors and instruments, which would facilitate the analysis of the policy processes of cooperation. It also demonstrates that recent droughts in Northeast Brazil have been increasingly related to the local impacts of climate change, contributing to reframing water management as a cross-sectoral climate and water governance issue. The analysis was based on a literature review, semi-structured interviews, and social network analysis.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : politique, gouvernance, changement climatique, politique de l'eau, sécurité alimentaire, développement durable, intégration

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Brésil

Mots-clés complémentaires : politique climatique, Politique publique

Mots-clés libres : Advocacy coalition framework, Policy integration, Social network analysis, Water policy, Climate policy, Northeast Brazil

Classification Agris : E14 - Économie et politique du développement
P40 - Météorologie et climatologie
P10 - Ressources en eau et leur gestion

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 5 (2019-) - Territoires

Auteurs et affiliations

• Milhorance Carolina, CIRAD-ES-UMR ART-DEV (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-3290-8596 - auteur correspondant
• Le Coq Jean-François, CIRAD-ES-UMR ART-DEV (COL) ORCID: 0000-0003-1084-1973
• Sabourin Eric, CIRAD-ES-UMR ART-DEV (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-1171-2535

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/598288/)

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