Katherine A. Daniell

Dr Katherine A. Daniell, BEng(Civil)(Hons)/BA (Adel.), PhD (ANU/AgroParisTech) MIEAust, is a Senior Lecturer in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University. Her work focuses on collaborative approaches to policy and action for sustainable development. She has worked in Europe and the Asia-Pacific on projects related to water governance, risk management, sustainable urban development, climate change adaptation, research-policy collaboration and international science, technology and innovation cooperation. Katherine has previously held appointments in the ANU Centre for Policy Innovation, the HC Coombs Policy Forum, the ANU Centre for European Studies and IRSTEA in Montpellier, France.

Multi-level Governance  »

Conceptual challenges and case studies from Australia

Publication date: November 2017
Important policy problems rarely fit neatly within existing territorial boundaries. More difficult still, individual governments or government departments rarely enjoy the power, resources and governance structures required to respond effectively to policy challenges under their responsibility. These dilemmas impose the requirement to work with others from the public, private, non-governmental organisation (NGO) or community spheres, and across a range of administrative levels and sectors. But how? This book investigates the challenges—both conceptual and practical—of multi-level governance processes. It draws on a range of cases from Australian public policy, with comparisons to multi-level governance systems abroad, to understand factors behind the effective coordination and management of multi-level governance processes in different policy areas over the short and longer term. Issues such as accountability, politics and cultures of governance are investigated through policy areas including social, environmental and spatial planning policy. The authors of the volume are a range of academics and past public servants from different jurisdictions, which allows previously hidden stories and processes of multi-level governance in Australia across different periods of government to be revealed and analysed for the first time.