The Delphi Method as a Useful Tool to Study Governance and Protected Areas?

Landscape Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 607-624

  Mehnen, Nora ^a   Mose, Ingo ^b   Strijker, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delphi method; protected area categories; regional governance

Indexed keywords

DELPHI ANALYSIS; FUTURE PROSPECT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PLANNING METHOD; PROTECTED AREA; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

EID: 84890407361     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2012.690862     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Ali, A. K. (2005). Using the Delphi technique to search for empirical measures of local planning agency power. The Qualitative Report, 10(4), 718-744 available at http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR10-4/ali.pdf (accessed10 August 2011).
2. Anderson, D. H., & Schneider, I. E. (1993). Using the Delphi process to identify significant recreation research-based innovations. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, 11(1), 25-36.
3. Benz, A. (Ed.) (2004) Governance - Regieren in komplexen Regelsystemen. Eine Einführung (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften/GWVFachverlag).
4. Borrini-Feyerabend, G. (2003). Governance of protected areas innovations in the air. Policy Matters, 12, 92-101.
5. Bortz, J., & Döring, N. (2002). Forschungsmethoden und Evaluation für Human-und Sozialwissenschaftler. Berlin: Springer.
6. Commission of the European Communities European Governance - A White Paper COM (2001) 428 final [EU Commission - COM Document] July 25 2001 Available at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/com/2001/com2001_0428en01.pdf (accessed 14 February 2012)
7. Critcher, C., & Gladstone, B. (1998). Utilising the Delphi technique in policy discussion: A case study of a privatised utility in Britain. Public Administration, 76(3), 431-449.
8. Dalkey, N., & Helmer, O. (1963). Delphi technique: Characteristics and sequence model to the use of experts. Management Science, 9(3), 458-467.
9. De Loe, R. C. (1995). Exploring complex policy questions using the policy Delphi: A multi-round, interactive survey method. Applied Geography, 15(1), 53-68.
10. De Urioste-Stone, S., McLaughlin, W. J., & Sanyal, N. (2006). Using the Delphi technique to identify topics for a protected area co-management capacity building program. International Journal of Rural Management, 2, 191-211.
11. Derkzen, P. The politics of rural governance. Case studies of rural partnerships in the Netherlands and Wales PhD thesis, Wageningen University 2008
12. Dudley, N. (Ed.) (2008) Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories (Gland, Switzerland: IUCN), x + 86pp.
13. Fürst, D. (2005). Regional governance; Wahrnehmung und Erkenntnisse. Available at: http://oearat.web06.vss.kapper.net/wp-content/uploads/089DBS_OEAR_LuStextra_RegionalGovernance_Fuerst_2005_113KB.pdf (accessed 10 February 2012).
14. Fürst, D. (2006). Regional Governance: Lernprozess zur Selbststeuerung. Raum (pp. 28-30). Schutzgebiete und Regionalentwicklung: Schützen und Nützen.
15. Fürst D. Lahner M. Pollermann K.Entstehung und Funktionsweise von Regional Governance bei dem Gemeinschaftsgut Natur und Landschaft-Analysen von Place-making- und Governance-Prozessen in Biosphärenreservaten in Deutschland und Großbritannien Beiträge zur räumlichen Planung, H. 82, Hannover 2006
16. Gaston, K. J., Jackson, S. F., Nagy, A., Cantu-Salazar, L., & Johnson, M. (2008). Protected areas in Europe: Principle and practice. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1134, 97-119.
17. Goodman, C. M. (1987). The Delphi technique: a critique. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 12, 729-734.
18. Gupta, U. G., & Clarke, R. E. (1996). Theory and applications of the Delphi technique: A bibliography (1975-1994). Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 53, 185-211.
19. Häder, M. (2000). Die Expertenauswahl bei Delphi-Befragungen. ZUMA How-to-Reihe, 5, 1-15.
20. Häder, M. (2002). Delphi-Befragung-ein Arbeitsbuch. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.
21. Hamin, E. M. (2002). Western European landscape protection: Western European approaches to landscape protection: A review of the literature. Journal of Planning Literature, 16, 339-358.
22. Hanna, K. S., Clark, D. A., & Slocombe, D. S. (2008). Transforming Parks and Protected Areas: Policy and Governance in a Changing World. New York: Routledge.
23. Hsu, C., & Sandford, B. A. (2007). The Delphi technique: Making sense of consensus. Practical Assessment Research & Evaluation, 12(10), available at http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=12&n=10 (accessed 3 August 2011).
24. Institute on Governance Governance Principles for Protected Areas in the 21st Century IUCN, Canadian International Development Agency and Parks Canada Ottawa 2002
25. IUCN Guidelines for Protected Area Management Categories CNPPA with the assistance of WCMC. IUCN, Gland Switzerland and Cambridge UK 1994 available at http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/1994-007-En.pdf (accessed 27 September 2011)
26. IUCN The IUCN Programme 2013-16 Third Draft, Revised January 2012 2012a available at http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/draft_iucn_programme_2013_16_9_may_2011_1.pdf (accessed 5 March 2012)
27. IUCN (2012b). About IUCN. Available at http://www.iucn.org/about/ (accessed 14 February 2012).
28. Kooiman, J. (1999). Social-political governance. Overview. reflections and design, Public Management, 1(1), 68-92.
29. Kothari, A. (2008). Protected areas and people: The future of the past. PARKS, 17(2), 23-34.
30. The Delphi Method. Techniques and Applications Linstone H.A. Turoff M. Addison Wesley London 1975
31. Managing Protected Areas: A Global Guide Lockwood M. Worboys G.L. Kothari A. Earthscan London and Sterling, VA 2006
32. Ludwig, B. (1997). Predicting the future: Have you considered using the Delphi methodology? Journal of Extension, available at http://www.joe.org/joe/1997october/tt2.html (accessed 3 August 2011).
33. Lupp G. Landschaftswahrnehmung von Anwohnern und Besuchern des Müritz-Nationalparks und Prognose zu erwartender Veränderungen im Landschaftsbild Culterra, 54 PhD thesis, University of Freiburg 2008
34. Mehnen N. Mose I. Strijker D.Governance in protected areas-current state of research and existing research gaps Paper given at 1st International Conference on Landscape Economics European Consortium for Landscape Economics ViennaJuly 2-4 2009
35. Mehnen, N., Mose, I., & Strijker, D. (2010). Wer kennt den Begriff 'Großschutzgebiet'? Deutschsprachige Fachtermini als Gefahr für den internationalen Wissenschaftsdiskurs. Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung, 42(12), 382-383. (in German).
36. Miller, M. M. (1993). Enhancing regional analysis with the Delphi method. Review of Regional Studies, 23(2), 191-212.
37. Mose, I. (Ed.) (2007) Protected Areas and Regional Development in Europe: Towards a New Model for the 21st Century (Aldershot: Ashgate).
38. Needham, R. D. (1990). Geographic: The policy Delphi: Purpose, structure, and application. The Canadian Geographer, 34(2), 133-142.
39. OECD (2012). Principal elements of good governance. Available at: http://www.oecd.org/document/32/0,3746,en_2649_33735_1814560_1_1_1_1,00.html (accessed 15 February 2012).
40. Okoli, C., & Pawlowski, S. D. (2004). The Delphi method as a research tool: An example, design considerations and applications. Information & Management, 42, 15-29. available at www.elsevier.com/locate/dsw (accessed 5 August 2011).
41. Ono, R., & Wedemeyer, D. J. (1994). Assessing the validity of the Delphi technique. Futures, 26(3), 289-304.
42. Pollermann, K. (2006). Regional governance and biosphere reserves: Empiric results from case-studies in Germany and Great Britain. available at http://www.ttef.org.uk/Braunton_Burrows_File/TTEF%20-%20Biosphere%20Reserve%20%20Regional%20Governance%20-%20English%20Summary.pdf (accessed 1 August 2011).
43. Pütz, M. (2004). Regional governance: Theoretisch-konzeptionelle Grundlagen und eine Analyse nachhaltiger Siedlungsentwicklung in der Metropolregion München. Hochschulschriften zur Nachhaltigkeit. Munich: Oekom-Verlag.
44. Sanftenberg, R. (2000). Sanfter Tourismus auf sandigem Boden: Tourismus und Naturschutz im Naturpark Uckermärkische Seen. Berlin: Weißensee-Verlag. (Humboldt University of Berlin, PhD thesis).
45. Rhodes, R. A. W. (1997). Understanding Governance. Policy Networks, Governance, Reflexivity and Accountability. Buckingham: Open University Press.
46. Schliep, R., & Stoll-Kleemann, S. (2010). Assessing governance of biosphere reserves in Central Europe. Land Use Policy, 27, 917-927.
47. Schnur, O., & Markus, I. (2010). Quartiersentwicklung 2030: Akteure, Einflussfaktoren und Zukunftstrends-Ergebnisse einer Delphi-Studie. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 68, 181-194.
48. Scholles, F. (2008). Delphi. In D. Fürst, & F. Scholles (Eds.), Handbuch Theorien und Methoden der Raum- und Umweltplanung (pp. 3775-3380). Dortmund: Rohn.
49. Schuppert, G. F. (2005). Governance-Forschung: Vergewisserung über Stand und Entwicklungslinien. 1. Aufl. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.
50. Sherlock, K. L., Kirk, E. A., & Reeves, A. D. (2004). Just the usual suspects? Partnerships and environmental regulation. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 22(5), 651-666.
51. Steffenhagen P. Vergleichende Untersuchung des Umfangs und der Organisation des regionalen Fundraisings für Umwelt- und Naturschutzprojekte in ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands sowie des gesellschaftlichen Engagements von Unternehmen in Deutschland und Großbritannien PhD thesis, University of Oldenburg 2010
52. Stewart, J. (2001). Is the Delphi technique a qualitative method? Medical Education, 35, 922-923. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2001.01045.x (accessed 10 August 2011).
53. Stoll-Kleemann S. Linking governance and management perspectives with conservation success in protected areas and biosphere reserves Discussion Paper 1 2006 available at http://www.biodiversitygovernnance.de (accessed 10 August 2011)
54. Taylor, M. (2000). Communities in the lead: Power, organisational capacity and social capital. Urban Studies, 37(5-6), 1019-1035.
55. Turoff, M. (2002). The Policy Delphi. In H. A. Linstone, & M. Turoff (Eds.), The Delphi Method. Techniques and Applications. available at http://is.njit.edu/pubs/delphibook/ch3b1.pdf (accessed 10 August 2011).
56. World Bank (2011). The Worldwide Governance Indicators. available at: http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.asp (accessed 15 February 2012).