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Dr Ed Challies

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Department: School of Earth and Environment

Email: edward.challies@canterbury.ac.nz

Phone Number: +64 3 369 3999 ext. null

Office: Beatrice Tinsley Rm 419

Languages: English, German, Spanish

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Research / Creative works
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Fields of Research

  • Environmental governance
  • Water resource management
  • Groundwater governance
  • Collaborative and participatory governance
  • Common pool resource management
  • Social-ecological resilience
  • Flood risk management and resilience
  • Political ecology
  • Environmental justice
  • International development and environment

Researcher Summary

I am interested in understanding how communities and groups collectively decide on the distribution of environmental goods and bads in society. This entails examining a variety of processes and arrangements for participatory and collaborative environmental governance, with a view to understanding the extent to which they are (a) effective in terms of securing or advancing social and environmental sustainability, and (b) democratically legitimate in terms of procedural and distributional justice. While my work is primarily focused on water governance, I am also interested in environmental politics and governance more broadly. I research collaborative environmental governance in diverse settings, and across scales, from the governance of global flows and networks, to grassroots community initiatives and local projects.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Environmental Studies: Environmental Science; Environmental Studies
  • Human Geography: Human Geography
  • Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy: Public Policy
  • Resilience: Social: People and Community

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

(Displaying research/scholarly/creative work from 2004 to 2022)
Journal Articles
  • Challies E. and Tadaki M. (2022) New horizons in the politics of water governance. New Zealand Geographer 78(1): 3-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12332.
  • Cotta B., Coenen J., Challies E., Newig J., Lenschow A. and Schilling-Vacaflor A. (2022) Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems: Mapping the terrain towards an integrated research agenda. Earth System Governance 13 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2022.100142.
  • Jager NW., Newig J., Challies E., Kochskämper E. and von Wehrden H. (2022) Case study meta-analysis in the social sciences. Insights on data quality and reliability from a large-N case survey. Research Synthesis Methods 13(1): 12-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1514.
  • Sinner J., Tadaki M., Challies E., Kilvington M., Tane P. and Robb CA. (2022) Crafting Collective Management Institutions in Messy Real-World Settings: A Call for Action Research. International Journal of the Commons 16(1): 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1145.
  • Coenen J., Bager S., Meyfroidt P., Newig J. and Challies E. (2021) Environmental Governance of China's Belt and Road Initiative. Environmental Policy and Governance 31(1): 3-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eet.1901.
  • Jager NW., Newig J., Challies E. and Kochskämper E. (2021) Erratum: Pathways to Implementation: Evidence on How Participation in Environmental Governance Impacts on Environmental Outcomes (2021) DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muz034). Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 31(3): 616. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muab006.
  • Schilling-Vacaflor A., Lenschow A., Challies E., Cotta B. and Newig J. (2021) Contextualizing certification and auditing: Soy certification and access of local communities to land and water in Brazil. World Development 140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105281.
  • Jager NW., Newig J., Challies E. and Kochskämper E. (2020) Pathways to implementation: Evidence on how participation in environmental governance impacts on environmental outcomes. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 30(3): 383-399. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muz034.
  • Newig J., Challies E., Cotta B., Lenschow A. and Schilling-Vacaflor A. (2020) Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability. Ecology and Society 25(4): 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-11844-250421.
  • Teen R., Roberts L. and Challies E. (2020) Disruption as opportunity for transformation? Insights from water supply contamination in Havelock North, New Zealand. Local Environment 25(10): 810-827. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2020.1839030.
  • McGregor A., Challies E., Thomas A., Astuti R., Howson P., Afiff S., Kindon S. and Bond S. (2019) Sociocarbon cycles: Assembling and governing forest carbon in Indonesia. Geoforum 99: 32-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.12.003.
  • Newig J., Jager NW., Kochskämper E. and Challies E. (2019) Learning in participatory environmental governance – its antecedents and effects. Findings from a case survey meta-analysis. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 21(3): 213-227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2019.1623663.
  • Newig J., Lenschow A., Challies E., Cotta B. and Schilling-Vacaflor A. (2019) What is governance in global telecoupling? Ecology and Society 24(3) http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-11178-240326.
  • Liu J., Dou Y., Batistella M., Challies E., Connor T., Friis C., Millington JD., Parish E., Romulo CL. and Silva RFB. (2018) Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 33: 58-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.04.009.
  • Lührs N., Jager NW., Challies E. and Newig J. (2018) How Participatory Should Environmental Governance Be? Testing the Applicability of the Vroom-Yetton-Jago Model in Public Environmental Decision-Making. Environmental Management 61(2): 249-262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-017-0984-3.
  • Newig J., Challies E., Jager NW., Kochskaemper E. and Adzersen A. (2018) The Environmental Performance of Participatory and Collaborative Governance: A Framework of Causal Mechanisms. Policy Studies Journal 46(2): 269-297. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psj.12209.
  • Reed MS., Vella S., Challies E., de Vente J., Frewer L., Hohenwallner-Ries D., Huber T., Neumann RK., Oughton EA. and Sidoli del Ceno J. (2018) A theory of participation: what makes stakeholder and public engagement in environmental management work? Restoration Ecology 26: S7-S17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.12541.
  • Challies E., Newig J., Kochskämper E. and Jager NW. (2017) Governance change and governance learning in Europe: Stakeholder participation in environmental policy implementation. Policy and Society 36(2): 288-303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2017.1320854.
  • Challies E., Newig J., Thaler T., Kochskämper E. and Levin-Keitel M. (2016) Participatory and collaborative governance for sustainable flood risk management: An emerging research agenda. Environmental Science and Policy 55: 275-280. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2015.09.012.
  • Jager NW., Challies E., Kochskämper E., Newig J., Benson D., Blackstock K., Collins K., Ernst A., Evers M. and Feichtinger J. (2016) Transforming European water governance? Participation and river basin management under the EU water framework directive in 13 member states. Water (Switzerland) 8(4) http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w8040156.
  • Kochskämper E., Challies E., Newig J. and Jager NW. (2016) Participation for effective environmental governance? Evidence from Water Framework Directive implementation in Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. Journal of Environmental Management 181: 737-748. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.08.007.
  • Lenschow A., Newig J. and Challies E. (2016) Globalization’s limits to the environmental state? Integrating telecoupling into global environmental governance. Environmental Politics 25(1): 136-159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2015.1074384.
  • Newig J., Kochskämper E., Challies E. and Jager NW. (2016) Exploring governance learning: How policymakers draw on evidence, experience and intuition in designing participatory flood risk planning. Environmental Science and Policy 55: 353-360. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2015.07.020.
  • Dixon R. and Challies E. (2015) Making REDD+ pay: Shifting rationales and tactics of private finance and the governance of avoided deforestation in Indonesia. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 56(1): 6-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apv.12085.
  • Drazkiewicz A., Challies E. and Newig J. (2015) Public participation and local environmental planning: Testing factors influencing decision quality and implementation in four case studies from Germany. Land Use Policy 46: 211-222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.02.010.
  • McGregor A., Challies E., Howson P., Astuti R., Dixon R., Haalboom B., Gavin M., Tacconi L. and Afiff S. (2015) Beyond carbon, more than forest? REDD+ governmentality in Indonesia. Environment and Planning A 47(1): 138-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a140054p.
  • Challies E. (2014) Reining in rascal geographies of neoliberalism in the periphery? Dialogues in Human Geography 4(2): 131-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820614536337.
  • Challies E., Newig J. and Lenschow A. (2014) What role for social-ecological systems research in governing global teleconnections? Global Environmental Change 27(1): 32-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.04.015.
  • Mcgregor A., Weaver S., Challies E., Howson P., Astuti R. and Haalboom B. (2014) Practical critique: Bridging the gap between critical and practice-oriented REDD+ research communities. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 55(3): 277-291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apv.12064.
  • Newig J., Challies E., Jager N. and Kochskämper E. (2014) What role for public participation in implementing the EU floods directive? A comparison with the water framework directive, early evidence from Germany and a research agenda. Environmental Policy and Governance 24(4): 275-288. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eet.1650.
  • Mcgregor A., Challies E., Overton J. and Sentes L. (2013) Developmentalities and donor-NGO relations: Contesting foreign aid policies in new zealand/aotearoa. Antipode 45(5): 1232-1253. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anti.12017.
  • Challies ERT. and Murray WE. (2011) The Interaction of Global Value Chains and Rural Livelihoods: The Case of Smallholder Raspberry Growers in Chile. Journal of Agrarian Change 11(1): 29-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0366.2010.00282.x.
  • Challies ERT. (2008) Commodity chains, rural development and the global agri-food system. Geography Compass 2(2): 375-394. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00095.x.
  • Challies ERT. and Murray WE. (2008) Towards post-neoliberalism? The comparative politico-economic transition of New Zealand and Chile. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 49(2): 228-243. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8373.2008.00372.x.
  • Challies ERT. and Murray WE. (2006) Productive transformations and bilateralism in the semi-periphery: A comparative political economy of the dairy complexes of New Zealand and Chile. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 47(3): 351-365. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8373.2006.00322.x.
  • Murray WE. and Challies ERT. (2004) New Zealand and Chile: Partnership for the Pacific century? Australian Journal of International Affairs 58(1): 89-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1035771032000184782.
Edited Volumes
  • Kochskämper E; Challies ERT; Jager NW; Newig J (Ed.) Kochskämper E., Challies ERT., Newig J., Jager NW., Schütze N. and Ballester A. (2018) Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation. London: Routledge. 163.
Chapters
  • Challies E. and Newig J. (2022) Water, rivers and wetlands: governance paradigms and principles. In Harris P (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (2 ed.): 512-525. Oxon: Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003008873-43.
  • Challies E., Newig J. and Lenschow A. (2019) Governance for Sustainability in Telecoupled Systems. In Friis C; Nielsen JØ (Ed.), Telecoupling: Exploring Land-Use Change in a Globalised World: 177-197. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11105-2_9.
  • Newig J., Challies E. and Jager N. (2019) Democratic innovation and environmental governance. In Elstub S; Escobar O (Ed.), Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance: 324-338. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781786433862.00033.
  • Newig J., Challies E., Jager N. and Kochskämper E. (2018) Concepts: How participation leads to effective environmental governance. In Kochskämper E; Challies E; Jager N; Newig J (Ed.), Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation: 11-27.Routledge.
  • Newig J., Kochskämper E., Challies E. and Jager N. (2018) Researching participation in environmental governance through the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive. In Kochskämper E; Challies E; Jager N; Newig J (Ed.), Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation: 3-10. Oxon: Routledge.
  • Newig J. and Challies E. (2015) Water, rivers and wetlands. Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics: 439-452. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203799055.
  • Newig J. and Challies E. (2013) Water, rivers and wetlands. Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics: 439-452.

Affiliations

  • Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Institute for Sustainability Governance (Teaching/Research Organisation): Senior Adjunct Research Associate, Lüneburg, Germany

Future Research

  • Politics and governance of groundwater
  • Politics of urban green-blue infrastructure
  • Comparing collaborative water governance across Canterbury and NZ
  • Constructions of community resilience to flood/drought risk

Key Methodologies

  • Qualitative social research methods
  • Interviews
  • Comparative case studies
  • Case-survery meta-analysis
  • Content analysis
  • Transdisciplinary research
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