scholarly journals The Role of Public Administration in Environmental Governance:a Case Study based on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
Tomás Oliveira Bredariol ◽  
Valéria Vinha
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development

This article draws upon theory and a case study to research public administration’s role in environmental governance systems. Thus, it examines Brazil’s environmental regulation of the offshore oil and gas sector. The methodology used follows the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework and supports interviews, documentation review and direct observation. The results indicate the main features of the institutional setting, including the rules in use and relevant external variables. Concluding, three key elements operating at the organizational level are highlighted: the means of stakeholder participation; the stability and forms of interaction within the personnel; and the autonomy to enforce established arrangements.

scholarly journals INSTITUTIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: THE CASE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING FOR OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS PROJECTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
TOMÁS DE OLIVEIRA BREDARIOL ◽  
ALEXANDRE LOUIS DE ALMEIDA D’AVIGNON
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Governance System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
Offshore Oil

Abstract This work is an effort to link institutions and environmental governance, focusing on the Brazilian offshore oil and gas sector. A case study detailing the experience of an environmental unit of Brazil`s federal environmental agency (Coordenação Geral de Petróleo e Gás, Diretoria de Licenciamento, Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis - CGPEG/DILIC/IBAMA) is used for this purpose. This unit is in charge of handling environmental permits for projects in this area. The methodology follows the institutional analysis and development framework as described by Ostrom (2011). Results reveal an environmental governance system characterized by the lack of policies that complement the issuing of environmental permits. In addition, we describe the institutional environment at CGPEG, demonstrating the existence of trust among its personnel. Finally, our conclusions indicate the importance of ensuring the permanence of the public staff, as well as the need to structure strategic governance systems.

scholarly journals Laws, norms, and the Institutional Analysis and Development framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL H. COLE
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
Type 3 ◽  
Working Rules

AbstractElinor Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework has been described as ‘one of the most developed and sophisticated attempts to use institutional and stakeholder assessment in order to link theory and practice, analysis and policy’. But not all elements in the framework are sufficiently well developed. This paper focuses on one such element: the ‘rules-in-use’ (a.k.a. ‘rules’ or ‘working rules’). Specifically, it begins a long-overdue conversation about relations between formal legal rules and ‘working rules’ by offering a tentative and very simple typology of relations. Type 1: Some formal legal rules equal or approximate the working rules; Type 2: Some legal rules plus (or emended by) widely held social norms equal or approximate the working rules; and Type 3: Some legal rules bear no evident relation to the working rules. Several examples, including some previously used by Ostrom, are provided to illustrate each of the three types, which can be conceived of as nodes or ranges along a continuum. The paper concludes with a call for empirical research, especially case studies and meta-analyses, to determine the relevant scope of each of these types of relations, and to provide data for furthering our understanding of how different types of rules, from various sources, function (or not) as institutions.

scholarly journals Enabling Game-Theoretical Analysis of Social Rules

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nieves Montes ◽  
Nardine Osman ◽  
Carles Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Multiagent Systems ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Agent Interactions ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Agent Interaction ◽  
Normative Multiagent Systems ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
The Relationship

In the field of normative multiagent systems, the relationship between a game structure and its underpinning agent interaction rules is hardly ever addressed in a systematic manner. In this work, we introduce the Action Situation Language (ASL), inspired by Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development framework, to bridge the gap between games and rules. The ASL provides a syntax for the description of agent interactions, and is complemented by an engine that automatically provides semantics for them as extensive-form games. The resulting games can then be analysed using standard game-theoretical solution concepts, hence allowing any community of agents to automatically perform what-if analysis of potential new interaction rules.

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