The significance of structural power in Strategic Environmental Assessment |
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| Institution: | 1. The Danish Centre for Environmental Assessment, Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Skibbrogade 5, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark;2. The Danish Centre for Environmental Assessment, Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University Copenhagen, A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, DK-2450 Copenhagen SV, Denmark;3. Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Skibbrogade 5, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark;1. Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, London, UK;2. Grantham Institute and Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK;3. Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands;1. School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK;2. School of Geo and Spatial Sciences, North-West University, South Africa;3. Integral Sustainability, Australia;4. Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute, Australia;5. Environmental Science, Murdoch University, Australia;6. Department of Geography and Planning and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Canada;1. Institute of Biological and Health Sciences, Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil;2. Instituto de Geografia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;3. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK;4. Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (IPÊ), Nazaré Paulista, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | This article presents a study of how power dynamics enables and constrains the influence of actors upon decision-making and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). Based on structuration theory, a model for studying power dynamics in strategic decision-making processes is developed. The model is used to map and analyse key decision arenas in the decision process of aluminium production in Greenland. The analysis shows that communication lines are an important resource through which actors exercise power and influence decision-making on the location of the aluminium production. The SEA process involved not only reproduction of formal communication and decision competence but also production of alternative informal communication structures in which the SEA had capability to influence.It is concluded, that actors influence strategic decision making, and attention needs to be on not only the formal interactions between SEA process and strategic decision-making process but also on informal interaction and communication between actors as the informal structures, which can be crucial to the outcome of the decision-making process. This article is meant as a supplement to the understanding of power dynamics influence in IA processes and as a contribution to the IA research field with a method to analyse power dynamics in strategic decision-making processes. The article also brings reflections of strengths and weaknesses of using the structuration theory as an approach to power analysis. |
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