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Assessing climate policy networks in

Nevada resource management

The Problem

• What can be done to improve the climate

change policy

"infrastructure" of the State of Nevada?

The Problem

• What can be done to improve the climate change

policy

"infrastructure" of the State of Nevada?

1. What policy “infrastructure” exists now?

2. How can it be improved?

Network analysis?

U.S. Senate Voting in 2007

Adam Perer, Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland - HCIL

Climate Change: U.S. Groups in International Context

Richard Rogers, Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam

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Climate Change & Policy Networks

• Policy networks are effective at:  increasing the sharing of knowledge between organizations  facilitating the coordination of activities  exploiting funding opportunities and sharing resources  building trust and reciprocity among policymakers and stakeholders (Agranoff 2007, Schneider et. al. 2003, Scholz et. al 2008)
• Impediments to leveraging power of networks:  difficulty of creating new networks  expanding existing ones in order to include relevant actors and stakeholders  improving communication gaps and bottlenecks (Considine 2009, Prell et. al. 2009)

Sources Cited Agranoff, Robert (2007) Managing Within Networks. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Considine, Mark, Jenny M. Lewis and Damon Alexander (2009) Networks, Innovation and Public Policy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Prell, C., K. Hubacek, et al. (2009). "Stakeholder analysis and social network analysis in natural resource management." Society & Natural Resources 22: 501-518. Schneider, Mark, John Scholz, Mark Lubell, Denisa Mindruta and Matthew Edwardsen (2003) “Building Consensual Institutions: Networks and the National Estuary Program.” American Journal of Political Science 47 (1): 143-158. Scholz, J., R. Berardo, et al. (2008). "Do networks solve collective action problems? Credibility, search, and collaboration." The Journal of Politics 70(02): 393-406.

Climate Change & Policy Networks

• Climate change effects and consequences felt

locally.

Bulkeley, Harriet and Michele M. Betsill (2003), Cities and Climate Change , Routledge, NY.

• Local governments are key to climate policy

process.

Corfee-Merlot, Jan, Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Michael G. Donovan, Ian Cochran, Alexis Robert and Pierre-Jonathan Teasdale (2009), “Cities, Climate Change and Multilevel Governance”, OECD Environmental Working Papers N.14 , OECD publishing, OECD.

Research Objectives

1. Describe the existing climate policy networks.

2. Use network metrics to find opportunities to

improve climate policy infrastructure.

Metrics Overview

• Density
• Density differential
• Centrality
• Clustering
• Resilience / Vulnerability

Existing Network Density : 0.

Organizations with no ties in existing network:

Existing Climate Policy Network in Nevada Water Management

Improved Network:

Includes all Organizations Identified as Being Important to Climate Change Policy

Improved Network Density: 0.

Figure 3: Improved Network That Includes all Organizations Ide

Improved Network Density: 0.