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