How can public policies enable the resilience of critical systems? : an assessment of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy in eleven case studies

Abstract

The resilience of critical systems has become a major concern to policy-makers in times of rapid social, technological, political and environmental change. However, the implications of the resilience concept for policy design are barely explored. This paper operationalizes a Resilience Assessment Tool (ResAT), based on a differentiated concept of resilience that distinguishes between robustness, adaptability and transformability. The ResAT is applied to assess how the national implementations of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy in eleven member states affect the resilience of farming systems. The analysis proves the resilience concept’s usefulness as integrative perspective for policy assessment. While most cases displayed a robustness-cum-adaptability orientation, some policy mixes were either adaptability-oriented or resilience-constraining. Support for transformability was generally underdeveloped. Details in policy design had large resilience effects. The findings suggest that resilience-enabling policies generally provide access to resources under more or less wellspecified conditions that determine which resilience capabilities are encouraged.

Keywords

sustainability; altenative farming; Europenean Union; farming systems

Publisher: SURE-Farm

SLU Authors

• Manevska Tasevska, Gordana

  • Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Economics
Agricultural Science


More information

Deliverable D4.4, Horizon 2020, SURE-Farm Project, Grant Agreement No. 727520.


Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/105976