TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction article: Informational governance and environmental sustainability
AU - Soma, Katrine
AU - MacDonald, Bertrum H.
AU - Termeer, Catrien J.A.M.
AU - Opdam, Paul
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Informational governance is a relatively new analytical concept explaining societal changes appearing in the Information Age, resulting from the massive new patterns of information flows. The main aim of this review is to identify the emerging issues in this new interdisciplinary field of science, within the context of environmental sustainability. Besides the existing literature on informational governance, new scientific contributions provided by this special issue are reviewed. The informational governance concept particularly contributes to analysing the rationale of the new patterns of information flows into the governance literature, and to gaining insights in how and why actors and institutions see their authorities being transformed into new arrangements. On the basis of the contributions to this special issue we specify future research topics in areas: information construction in policy processes, new relationships, transparency implications in environmental governance, new global arrangements and public engagement in the Information Age.
AB - Informational governance is a relatively new analytical concept explaining societal changes appearing in the Information Age, resulting from the massive new patterns of information flows. The main aim of this review is to identify the emerging issues in this new interdisciplinary field of science, within the context of environmental sustainability. Besides the existing literature on informational governance, new scientific contributions provided by this special issue are reviewed. The informational governance concept particularly contributes to analysing the rationale of the new patterns of information flows into the governance literature, and to gaining insights in how and why actors and institutions see their authorities being transformed into new arrangements. On the basis of the contributions to this special issue we specify future research topics in areas: information construction in policy processes, new relationships, transparency implications in environmental governance, new global arrangements and public engagement in the Information Age.
U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2015.09.005
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2015.09.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84955258882
SN - 1877-3435
VL - 18
SP - 131
EP - 139
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
ER -