Gemensamberedningen av EU
s Maritima Grönbok ur ett Resiliensperspektiv
The study aims to give a description of the conditions in which matters is prepared withinSwedish Government`s offices, to describe the adaptive capacity in the agency`s internalprocesses by investigating the experiences of some civil servants restricted to the Ministry ofEnterprise and the Ministry of Environment in their work with the EU Maritime Policy GreenPaper. The results have been analyzed against the basis of eight identified criteria of buildingadaptive capacity in socially dominated systems. The criteria are comprised of both individualand organizational abilities. Only two of them were fully met; the criteria about diversity inexperiences and knowledge and the criteria about information and how the information hasbeen applied. However, the process has traces of all the identified criteria. Hence, there areelements of adaptive capacity in the Governments office internal processes and this abilityexists mainly on individual scale. The two most crucial factors that limit the ability to buildadaptive capacity are the scarcity of time and the work overload experienced by theemployees.