The study aims to give a description of the conditions in which matters is prepared within Swedish Government`s offices, to describe the adaptive capacity in the agency`s internal processes by investigating the experiences of some civil servants restricted to the Ministry of Enterprise and the Ministry of Environment in their work with the EU Maritime Policy Green Paper. The results have been analyzed against the basis of eight identified criteria of building adaptive capacity in socially dominated systems. The criteria are comprised of both individual and organizational abilities. Only two of them were fully met; the criteria about diversity in experiences and knowledge and the criteria about information and how the information has been applied. However, the process has traces of all the identified criteria. Hence, there are elements of adaptive capacity in the Governments office internal processes and this ability exists mainly on individual scale. The two most crucial factors that limit the ability to build adaptive capacity are the scarcity of time and the work overload experienced by the employees.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-7823 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Falk, Kalle |
| Publisher | Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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