66. Do We Need to Collaborate Less? (Örjan Bodin)

About this episode

The episode discusses the potential downsides of collaboration in environmental governance and questions whether more collaboration is always the solution.

Collaboration is one of the most widely accepted ideas in environmental governance. When faced with a complex problem, the instinct is almost always to bring stakeholders together and work toward a shared solution. When that process fails the response is often to “collaborate harder”. But what if that instinct is sometimes counterproductive? What if the sheer number of collaborative initiatives is stretching participants so thin that none of them achieve very much? And what if the conflicts t...

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Guest: Örjan Bodin

Topics covered

• collaboration
• environmental governance
• stakeholder engagement
• complex problems
• initiative effectiveness

Keywords

• collaboration
• environmental governance
• stakeholders
• complex problems
• initiative effectiveness