دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی مدیریت عمومی جدید و همکاری در کانتربری، مدیریت آب شیرین نیوزیلند - الزویر 2017

ABSTRACT

Reconciling often-conflicting economic and environmental values, uses, and interests for freshwater is a policy challenge worldwide. Examining the Canterbury region of New Zealand’s South Island between 1999 and 2010, this paper focuses on the outcome of neoliberal reforms intended to achieve the political-economic imperative of environmental protection alongside economic prosperity. Linking the literature of multiple clientelism with New Public Management, we use the concepts of ‘authority’ and ‘autonomy’ to evaluate the challenges faced by local government to implement its decisions to manage freshwater in this neoliberal context. The case study shows that local government struggled to attain authority and autonomy over freshwater under a New Public Management regime, which has resulted in the degradation of freshwater quality and quantity in the region. The paper concludes that the adoption of collaborative governance in response to the failures of New Public Management has the potential to entrench the problems it seeks to resolve.

6. Conclusion

The failures of NPM have given way to the enthusiastic embrace of collaboration as a solution to New Zealand’s freshwater management dilemmas. However, we conclude that collaboration is simply a way of continuing NPM without radically reforming either the RMA, New Zealand’s regional government, or the New Zealand central government’s current goal of an economy led by primary production export growth. The debate over how to balance economic development and environmental protection is not solved by the adoption of collaborative governance. New Zealand is still searching for an answer to its freshwater policy conundrum.