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作者：Minna Kaljonen
期刊名称：Alue ja ympäristö
印刷版ISSN：1235-4554
电子版ISSN：2242-3451
出版年度：2016
卷号：45
期号：2
页码：34-44
出版社：Alue-ja ympäristötutkimuksen seura
摘要：Local partnerships have long formed the core of European rural policy. Funds have been channelled intoprojects that support local actors in innovating novel solutions for rural development. Such rural policymodel has much in common with the recent interest in experimental environmental governance. In bothcases, the partnerships and experiments are intended to provide ‘protected spaces’, which shield andnurture the local innovations in their development phase. In this article I claim that the experiences gainedfrom rural partnerships should be examined more carefully when developing experimental environmentalgovernance. The experiences compel us to address the limits of the protected space in supporting societaltransition. In this article I address these questions with the help of a case study, in which I have followedhow rural development funds slowly started to give form to local water management efforts in the RiverPaimionjoki in south-west Finland. In the River Paimionjoki the partnership arrangements, however, gotcontested in the meantime. In this article I apply a methodology that offers means for analysing the dynamicsbetween routinisation and contestation in the practice of partnerships and experimentation. Such a dynamicassessment is timely, if we are to capture the critical potential of experiments in environmental governance.