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Governance Arrangements for Transboundary Issues: Lessons from the Food Waste Programs of Italian Regions

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  • Maria Stella Righettini
  • Renata Lizzi

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Focusing on transboundary issues contributes to highlighting how new governance modes can emerge from increasing interdependence and complexity in public policies. This article analyzes food waste as a transboundary issue that cuts across different policy subsystems (PSs), intersects multiple levels of government, and calls into question consolidated policy making for new modes of governance. The analytical framework provides a multidimensional approach and a new typology of governance arrangements to be used in empirical research. Evidence from an Italian case study and an empirical investigation of 20 regional food waste programs shows that regions can adopt different driving ideas and can activate a variety of governance arrangements and differentiated, as well as viable, modes of integration between consolidated PSs. The article argues that different tool mixes combined with different levels of governance complexity may lead to a variety of governance arrangements and a differentiated likelihood of policy integration. 跨边界问题的治理安排：意大利地区粮食浪费计划得出的经验 聚焦跨边界问题有助于强调新治理模式如何从公共政策日益增加的相互依赖性和复杂性中应运而生。本文将粮食浪费作为一种跨边界问题进行分析，该问题贯穿不同政策子系统（PSs）、涉及多重政府层面、质疑新治理模式的整合决策。分析框架提出一项多方面措施和一种有关治理安排的新类型学，以用于实证研究。由一项意大利案例研究和一项针对20个地区粮食浪费计划的实证研究得出的证据表明，地区能采纳不同的驱动性观念，激活一系列治理安排，在整合过的政策子系统之间进行可行的差异化融合。本文主张，不同工具的组合，结合不同程度的治理复杂性，可能导致一系列治理安排和差异化的政策整合。 Disposiciones de gobernanza para asuntos transfronterizos: lecciones de los programas de desperdicio de alimentos de las regiones italianas Centrarse en cuestiones transfronterizas contribuye a destacar cómo pueden surgir nuevos modos de gobernanza a partir de la creciente interdependencia y complejidad dentro de las políticas públicas. Este artículo analiza el desperdicio de alimentos como un problema transfronterizo que atraviesa diferentes subsistemas de políticas, se cruza en múltiples niveles de gobierno y cuestiona la formulación de políticas consolidadas para nuevas formas de gobierno. El marco analítico proporciona un enfoque multidimensional y una nueva tipología de acuerdo de gobernanza para ser utilizados en la investigación empírica. La evidencia de un estudio de caso italiano y una investigación empírica de 20 programas regionales de desperdicio de alimentos muestran que las regiones pueden adoptar diferentes ideas de gestión y pueden activar una variedad de ajustes de gobernanza. El artículo argumenta que diferentes combinaciones de herramientas multiples con diferentes niveles de complejidad de gobernanza pueden conducir a una variedad de ajustes y una probabilidad diferenciada de integración de políticas.

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  • Maria Stella Righettini & Renata Lizzi, 2020. "Governance Arrangements for Transboundary Issues: Lessons from the Food Waste Programs of Italian Regions," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 37(1), pages 115-134, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:37:y:2020:i:1:p:115-134
    DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12360
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