The Governance of Sustainable Rural Renewal: A Comparative Global Perspective by Rory Shand

Author:Rory Shand [Shand, Rory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Public Policy, Environmental Policy, Political Science
ISBN: 9781317483199
Google: PcZTDAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 30536886
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-10T00:00:00+00:00

Key themes in NSW

• Sustainable development and land use

• Focus on education and community projects

• Funding and coordinating role of FRRR

6 South Africa

Eastern Cape

This chapter examines the third empirical case. This South African case study, the Eastern Cape, is driven by key partnerships involving the agricultural, business, governmental and educational sectors: universities in the region and existing businesses, working towards tourism and building public institutions, and capacity building public life in governance more broadly. The chapter begins by setting out the context to rural renewal in the Eastern Cape, examining the social drivers in the region and how these are linked to the key themes in rural renewal programmes, before moving on to engage with the research questions set out in Chapter 3. The chapter then sets out the aims of the projects and the main actors engaged in the design and delivery of these, focused on budgets and resources, targets and the relations across the partnership between the key actors.

This chapter examines and applies the policy networks approach and models to the rural renewal projects in the Eastern Cape, focusing on Nkonkobe and Alice. Within the case study areas, the chapter examines the role of key governance actors in funding and delivering the rural renewal projects, the role of communities and the progress of projects. The chapter goes on to examine the governance partnership model which draws upon the policy networks framework of interpretivism (Bevir, 2009; Bevir and Rhodes, 2003, 2006, 2008; Bevir and Richards, 2009a, 2009b) and using the New Public Management (NPM) and New Public Governance (NPG) approaches (Osborne, 2006, 2010), which underpin the theoretical discussion of governance in this case study chapter. The chapter examines the widespread transition from NPM to NPG, centred on the use of partnerships and networks in the governance (design and delivery) of rural renewal, regeneration, development and community engagement programmes, though within these programmes key tenets of the policy networks framework – such as the roles and power relations between actors in the governance partnership and the resultant rules of the game (that is, the power relations in the network or partnership, which come about through role construction and interpretation between the organisations involved) – are examined.

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