Lost in Translation – Following the Ecosystem Approach from Malawi to the Barents Sea
New ideas are constantly being produced as a changing world demands solutions to new problems. International environmental regimes often present ideas to reduce negative human effects on the environment. Implementation of ideas has often been studied through diffusion theory, where ideas are expecte...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/28138 2023-05-15T14:22:03+02:00 Lost in Translation – Following the Ecosystem Approach from Malawi to the Barents Sea Hammer, Maria 2023-01-06 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/28138 https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v14.3478 nob nob Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing Arctic Review on Law and Politics Hammer M. Lost in Translation – Following the Ecosystem Approach from Malawi to the Barents Sea. Arctic Review on Law and Politics. 2023; 14 :46-69 FRIDAID 2103864 https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v14.3478 1891-6252 2387-4562 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/28138 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2023 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v14.3478 2023-01-12T00:02:51Z New ideas are constantly being produced as a changing world demands solutions to new problems. International environmental regimes often present ideas to reduce negative human effects on the environment. Implementation of ideas has often been studied through diffusion theory, where ideas are expected to be implemented in their original version. Translation theory from New Scandinavian Institutionalism allows for an analysis of how ideas invented to solve problems change from introduction to implementation. Ideas heralded through UN processes may face a very long route from introduction to local implementation, during which the idea can become radically changed. Through a thorough study of documents, this article follows the trajectories of the idea of Ecosystem Approach (EA), from its first limited practical application in the US during the 1980s and 90s, during its travels in different United Nations fora, and ending up implemented locally through the 2006 Norwegian Barents Sea Management Plan. The novelty of this study is that the analyses cover a long timeframe combined with a focus on all the different steps of translation combined. This also allows for possible drivers of change to be identified. The results show that there are changes made to the idea to such an extent that what is finally implemented is something quite different from the original idea, and more like “business as usual”. According to the theory, discrepancies do not necessarily mean the idea has not been successful; on the contrary, ideas that can be changed may be more likely to become institutionalized. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic review on law and politics Barents Sea University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Barents Sea Arctic Review on Law and Politics 14 |
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New ideas are constantly being produced as a changing world demands solutions to new problems. International environmental regimes often present ideas to reduce negative human effects on the environment. Implementation of ideas has often been studied through diffusion theory, where ideas are expected to be implemented in their original version. Translation theory from New Scandinavian Institutionalism allows for an analysis of how ideas invented to solve problems change from introduction to implementation. Ideas heralded through UN processes may face a very long route from introduction to local implementation, during which the idea can become radically changed. Through a thorough study of documents, this article follows the trajectories of the idea of Ecosystem Approach (EA), from its first limited practical application in the US during the 1980s and 90s, during its travels in different United Nations fora, and ending up implemented locally through the 2006 Norwegian Barents Sea Management Plan. The novelty of this study is that the analyses cover a long timeframe combined with a focus on all the different steps of translation combined. This also allows for possible drivers of change to be identified. The results show that there are changes made to the idea to such an extent that what is finally implemented is something quite different from the original idea, and more like “business as usual”. According to the theory, discrepancies do not necessarily mean the idea has not been successful; on the contrary, ideas that can be changed may be more likely to become institutionalized. |
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Arctic Review on Law and Politics Hammer M. Lost in Translation – Following the Ecosystem Approach from Malawi to the Barents Sea. Arctic Review on Law and Politics. 2023; 14 :46-69 FRIDAID 2103864 https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v14.3478 1891-6252 2387-4562 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/28138 |
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