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dc.contributor.authorVoelker, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorBlackstock, Kirsty
dc.contributor.authorKovacic, Zora
dc.contributor.authorSindt, Jan
dc.contributor.authorStrand, Roger
dc.contributor.authorWaylen, Kerry A.
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-16T10:49:09Z
dc.date.available2020-06-16T10:49:09Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-26
dc.PublishedVoelker, Blackstock K, Kovacic Z, Sindt, Strand R, Waylen KA. The role of metrics in the governance of the water-energy-food nexus within the European Commission. Journal of Rural Studies. 2019.eng
dc.identifier.issn0743-0167
dc.identifier.issn1873-1392
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/22623
dc.description.abstractAbstract Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus in both academia and policy. This concept draws attention to the link between different environmental and societal domains, and potentially entails substantive shifts in governance processes. As a consequence, policy-makers and scientists have started to develop metrics to make these interactions and ‘trade-offs’ visible. However, it is unknown if current framings of the nexus and relevant quantified metrics either reinforce or challenge existing governance structures. This paper explores relationships between framings of the nexus, metrics and models of governance based on discussions with staff within the European Commission. Although narratives around the need for new metrics are situated in a conventional script about the use of evidence to change policy, our data indicate processes of co-production, by which the use (or non-use) of any new metrics is dependent on existing institutional practices; and will reflect dominant political orderings. In doing so we provide a critical analysis of the role of metrics in environmental governance, and direct attention to the discursive, institutional and political arrangements in which they are embedded and with which they are co-constitutive. Focusing on the cultural and institutional settings in which they are established and used, our study suggests that the question of metrics in the water-energy-food nexus needs to be explored as a problem of establishing a legitimate policy objective in the European Commission and EU policy-making more broadly.en_US
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherElseviereng
dc.rightsAttribution CC BY 4.0eng
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0eng
dc.subjectWater-energy-food nexuseng
dc.subjectEnvironmental governanceeng
dc.subjectQuantificationeng
dc.subjectLegitimacyeng
dc.subjectCo-productioneng
dc.subjectNarrativeeng
dc.titleThe role of metrics in the governance of the water-energy-food nexus within the European Commissioneng
dc.typeJournal articleeng
dc.typePeer reviewedeng
dc.date.updated2020-01-31T10:38:02Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2019 The Authors.eng
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.08.001
dc.identifier.cristin1748695
dc.source.journalJournal of Rural Studies


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