This would mean offering a list of potential facets of governance warranting attention, including safety and security concerns, human rights issues, transparency and capability gaps, and more.
Concern with the new governance draws attention to the extent to which these actions are often performed now by agents of the state rather than directly by the state.
In a book I coauthored on the effectiveness of multilateral environmental regimes, we argued that effective governance required attention to the cooperative environment among nations, building national concern among elites and the mass public, and building state administrative capacity for enforcing international commitments.
The report's recommendations remained the same as in 2014: mandating governance processes, pay attention to the composition and operation of boards, leading by example, and disclosure over funding and gender composition.
Soft governance needs more attention.
Following this assessment, future issues for governance and policy attention will be highlighted.
A consensus among economic sociologists is this: sociological studies of company governance should pay attention to institutional origins, action processes, and influences on social agents, and how they evolve over time (Davis 2005; Yang 2012).
Adaptive governance focuses our attention on the relationships between science and management, whereby the so-called 'gaps' between these groups are seen to hinder effective adaptive responses to biophysical change.
In concluding, we argue that hybrid practices of governing are indeed evident in NRM in Australia and that the concept of 'hybrid governance' requires further attention in understanding how rural spaces are made knowable and shaped as objects of knowledge.
Other governance issues warrant attention as well.
