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Adaptive Co-management Networks: a Comparative Analysis of Two Fishery Conservation Areas in Sweden
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Rova, Carl; Division of Social Science/Political Science Unit, Lule&amp;aring; University of Technology, Sweden; carl.rova@ltu.se.
Co-management constitutes a certain type of institutional arrangement that has gained increased attention among both policy makers and researchers involved in the field of natural resource management. Yet the concept of co-management is broad, and our knowledge about how different kinds of management structures affect the ability to deal with challenges pertinent to the commons is limited. One of these challenges is to foster an adaptive management process, i.e., a process in which rules are continuously revised and changed according to what is known about the ecological system. We aim to address the relationship between different kinds of co-management structures and adaptive management. To this end, we conducted a comparative case study of two Fishery...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Co-management; Governance; Natural resource management; Social networks; Social network analysis; SNA.
Ano: 2010

Toward a Relational Concept of Uncertainty: about Knowing Too Little, Knowing Too Differently, and Accepting Not to Know
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Dewulf, Art; Public Administration and Policy Group, Wageningen University; art.dewulf@psy.kuleuven.be; Taillieu, Tharsi; Center for Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; tharsi.taillieu@psy.kuleuven.be.
Uncertainty of late has become an increasingly important and controversial topic in water resource management, and natural resources management in general. Diverse managing goals, changing environmental conditions, conflicting interests, and lack of predictability are some of the characteristics that decision makers have to face. This has resulted in the application and development of strategies such as adaptive management, which proposes flexibility and capability to adapt to unknown conditions as a way of dealing with uncertainties. However, this shift in ideas about managing has not always been accompanied by a general shift in the way uncertainties are understood and handled. To improve this situation, we believe it is necessary to recontextualize...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Ambiguity; Frames; Framing; Knowledge relationship; Multiple knowledge frames; Natural resource management; Negotiation; Participation; Social learning; Uncertainty; Water management.
Ano: 2008

Competing Claims on Natural Resources: What Role for Science?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Giller, Ken E.; Wageningen University; ken.giller@wur.nl; Leeuwis, Cees; Wageningen University; cees.leeuwis@wur.nl; Andersson, Jens A.; Wageningen University; University of the Witwatersrand; jens.andersson@wur.nl; Andriesse, Wim; Wageningen University;; Brouwer, Arie; Wageningen University;; Frost, Peter; University of Zimbabwe;; Hebinck, Paul; Wageningen University;; van Ittersum, Martin K.; Wageningen University;; Koning, Niek; ;; Ruben, Ruerd; ;; Slingerland, Maja; Wageningen University;; Udo, Henk; Wageningen University;; Veldkamp, Tom; Wageningen University; Tom.Veldkamp@wur.nl; van de Vijver, Claudius; Wageningen University;; van Wijk, Mark T.; Wageningen University;; Windmeijer, Pieter; Wageningen University;.
Competing claims on natural resources become increasingly acute, with the poor being most vulnerable to adverse outcomes of such competition. A major challenge for science and policy is to progress from facilitating univocal use to guiding stakeholders in dealing with potentially conflicting uses of natural resources. The development of novel, more equitable, management options that reduce rural poverty is key to achieving sustainable use of natural resources and the resolution of conflicts over them. Here, we describe an interdisciplinary and interactive approach for: (i) the understanding of competing claims and stakeholder objectives; (ii) the identification of alternative resource use options, and (iii) the scientific support to negotiation processes...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Agricultural science; Conflict; Ecology; Level; Methodology; Natural resource management; Scale; Social science; Sustainable agriculture.
Ano: 2008

Consumer Preferences Determine Resilience of Ecological-Economic Systems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Derissen, Sandra; Department of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany; derissen@economics.uni-kiel.de; Quaas, Martin F; Department of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany; quaas@economics.uni-kiel.de.
We perform a model analysis to study the origins of limited resilience in coupled ecological-economic systems. We demonstrate that under open access to ecosystems for profit-maximizing harvesting forms, the resilience properties of the system are essentially determined by consumer preferences for ecosystem services. In particular, we show that complementarity and relative importance of ecosystem services in consumption may significantly decrease the resilience of (almost) any given state of the system. We conclude that the role of consumer preferences and management institutions is not just to facilitate adaptation to, or transformation of, some natural dynamics of ecosystems. Rather, consumer preferences and management institutions are themselves...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Consumption; Ecological-economic systems; Ecosystem services; Natural resource management; Preferences; Resilience.
Ano: 2011

The role of social learning for social-ecological systems in Korean village groves restoration
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Lee, Eunju; Civic Ecology Lab, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University; el372@cornell.edu; Krasny, Marianne E.; Civic Ecology Lab, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University; mek2@cornell.edu.
Recently, social learning has been recognized as a means to foster adaptation to changing conditions, and more broadly, social-ecological systems resilience. However, the discussion of social learning and social-ecological resilience in different cultural contexts is limited. In this study we introduce the Korean Village Groves Restoration Project (VGRP) through the lens of social learning, and discuss implications of the VGRP for resilience in villages impacted by industrialization and decline of traditional forest resources. We conducted open-ended interviews with VGRP leaders, government and NGO officials, and residents in four villages in South Korea, and found that villages responded to ecosystem change in ways that could be explained by the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Korean village groves; Multiple loop learning; Natural resource management; Social-ecological resilience; Social learning.
Ano: 2015

The Multifaceted Aspects of Ecosystem Integrity
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: De Leo, Giulio A; Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell' Ambiente; deleo@dsa.unipr.it; Levin, Simon A; Princeton University; slevin@eno.princeton.edu.
The need to reduce human impacts on ecosystems creates pressure for adequate response, but the rush to solutions fosters the oversimplification of such notions as sustainable development and ecosystem health. Hence, it favors the tendency to ignore the complexity of natural systems. In this paper, after a brief analysis of the use and abuse of the notion of ecosystem health, we address the problem of a sound definition of ecosystem integrity, critically review the different methodological and conceptual approaches to the management of natural resources, and sketch the practical implications stemming from their implementation. We show thatthere are merits and  limitations in different definitions of ecosystem integrity, for each acknowledges different...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Biodiversity; Complexity and stability; Conservation strategies; Disturbance  anthropogenic; Disturbance  natural; Ecosystem integrity; Ecosystem functioning; Ecosytem structure; Natural resource management; Resilience; Sustainable development.
Ano: 1997

Improving Participatory Processes through Collective Simulation: Use of a Community of Practice
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Dionnet, Mathieu; Lisode; mathieu.dionnet@lisode.com; Daniell, Katherine A; Centre for Policy Innovation, The Australian National University; katherine.daniell@anu.edu.au; Imache, Amar; Lisode; amar.imache@lisode.com; von Korff, Yorck; Lisode; yorck.von-korff@lisode.com; Bouarfa, Sami; UMR G-EAU, Cemagref; sami.bouarfa@cemagref.fr; Garin, Patrice; UMR G-EAU, Cemagref; patrice.garin@cemagref.fr; Jamin, Jean-Yves; UMR G-EAU, CIRAD; jamin@cirad.fr; Rollin, Dominique; UMR G-EAU, Cemagref; dominique.rollin@cemagref.fr; Rougier, Jean-Emmanuel; Lisode; Jean-Emmanuel.Rougier@lisode.com.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Community of practice; Natural resource management; Public participation; Role play; Simulation.
Ano: 2013

Migrant farmers as information brokers: agroecosystem management in the transition zone of Ghana
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Isaac, Marney E.; Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences and Center for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough; Department of Geography, University of Toronto; marney.isaac@utoronto.ca; Anglaaere, Luke C. N.; Forestry Research Institute of Ghana;; Akoto, Daniel S.; Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology;; Dawoe, Evans; Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology;.
Environmentally induced farmer migration is an important livelihood strategy, yet little is known of the effects on the destination region agroecosystem information networks and management practices. In the forest-savanna transition zone (Brong Ahafo Region) of Ghana, where migration from northern regions (migrant) and from neighboring regions (settler) is active, we chart the role of migrant famers and the type of agroecosystem management practices embedded in information networks using a social networks approach. Based on empirical network data from 44 respondents across three communities, we illustrate a diffuse information network, with variable tie frequency between settlement categories (local, settler, or migrant) of farmers. The cohesion of this...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Agricultural innovation; Agroecology; Agroforestry; Environmental change; Ghana; Natural resource management; Social network analysis; Social-ecological memory; Theobroma cacao.
Ano: 2014

Social Networks in Natural Resource Management: What Is There to Learn from a Structural Perspective?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Crona, Beatrice; Stockholm University; beatrice@ecology.su.se; Ernstson, Henrik; Stockholm University; henrik@ecology.su.se.
Social networks among actors and stakeholders are gaining attention in studies of natural resource management, particularly those of adaptive management based on different forms of participation and co-management. In this sense, social networks have primarily been envisioned as enabling different actors to collaborate and coordinate management efforts. Here, we continue the discussion initiated by Newman and Dale (2005), which highlighted the fact that not all social networks are created equal. We discuss the relation between some structural characteristics and functions of social networks with respect to natural resource management, thus focusing on structural implications that are often overlooked when studying social networks within the context of...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Response
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Co-management; Natural resource management; Social networks; Structure.
Ano: 2006

A Social&amp;#8211;Ecological System Approach to Analyze Stakeholders&amp;#8217; Interactions within a Large-Scale Rangeland Restoration Program
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Petursdottir, Thorunn; Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC); thorunn@live.com; Arnalds, Olafur; Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Agricultural University of Iceland; oa@lbhi.is; Baker, Susan; Cardiff School of Social Sciences; BakerSCM@cardiff.ac.uk; Montanarella, Luca; Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) ; luca.montanarella@jrc.ec.europa.eu.
Large-scale restoration projects are normally part of a complex social&amp;#8211;ecological system where restoration goals are shaped by governmental policies, managed by the surrounding governance system, and implemented by the related actors. The process of efficiently restoring degraded ecosystems is, therefore, not only based on restoring ecological structure and functions but also relies on the functionality of the related policies, the relevant stakeholder groups, and the surrounding socioeconomic and political settings. In this research, we investigated the SES of rangeland restoration in Iceland to estimate whether social factors, such as stakeholders&amp;#8217; attitudes and behavior, can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of agri-environmental...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental policies; Ecological restoration; Evaluation; Natural resource management; Social&amp;#8211; Ecological systems.
Ano: 2013

Challenging the win-win discourse on conservation and development: analyzing support for marine protected areas
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Chaigneau, Tomas; Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter; T.W.B.Chaigneau@exeter.ac.uk; Brown, Katrina; Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter; katrina.brown@exeter.ac.uk.
Conservation designations such as protected areas are increasing in numbers around the world, yet it is widely reported that many are failing to reach their objectives. They are frequently promoted as opportunities for win-win outcomes that can both protect biodiversity and lead to economic benefits for affected communities. This win-win view characterizes the dominant discourse surrounding many protected areas. Although this discourse and the arguments derived from it may lead to initial acceptance of conservation interventions, this study shows how it does not necessarily result in compliance and positive attitudes toward specific protected areas. Consequently, the discourse has important implications not just for making the case for protected area...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Attitudes; Behavior; Compliance; Fisheries; Natural resource management; Philippines.
Ano: 2016

The role of strong-tie social networks in mediating food security of fish resources by a traditional riverine community in the Brazilian Amazon
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Fillion, Myriam; Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustent&amp;#225;vel, Universidade de Bras&amp;#237;lia; Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le bien-&amp;#234;tre, la sant&amp;#233;, la soci&amp;#233;t&amp;#233; et l&amp;#8217;environnement (CINBIOSE), Universit&amp;#233; du Qu&amp;#233;bec &amp;#224; Montr&amp;#233;al; Department of Biology, University of Ottawa; fillion.myriam@uqam.ca; Saint-Charles, Johanne; Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le bien-&amp;#234;tre, la sant&amp;#233;, la soci&amp;#233;t&amp;#233; et l&amp;#8217;environnement (CINBIOSE), Universit&amp;#233; du Qu&amp;#233;bec &amp;#224; Montr&amp;#233;al; Facult&amp;#233; de communication, Universit&amp;#233; du Qu&amp;#233;bec &amp;#224; Montr&amp;#233;al; saint-charles.johanne@uqam.ca; Mongeau, Pierre; Facult&amp;#233; de communication, Universit&amp;#233; du Qu&amp;#233;bec &amp;#224; Montr&amp;#233;al; mongeau.pierre@uqam.ca; Mergler, Donna; Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le bien-&amp;#234;tre, la sant&amp;#233;, la soci&amp;#233;t&amp;#233; et l&amp;#8217;environnement (CINBIOSE), Universit&amp;#233; du Qu&amp;#233;bec &amp;#224; Montr&amp;#233;al; mergler.donna@uqam.ca.
Social networks are a significant way through which rural communities that manage resources under common property regimes obtain food resources. Previous research on food security and social network analysis has mostly focused on egocentric network data or proxy variables for social networks to explain how social relations contribute to the different dimensions of food security. Whole-network approaches have the potential to contribute to former studies by revealing how individual social ties aggregate into complex structures that create opportunities or constraints to the sharing and distribution of food resources. We used a whole-network approach to investigate the role of network structure in contributing to the four dimensions of food security: food...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Amazon; Common property regimes; Community-based management; Fish consumption; Food security; Mercury; Natural resource management; Social networks; Strong ties.
Ano: 2015

Designing Collaborative Processes for Adaptive Management:  Four Structures for Multistakeholder Collaboration
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Pratt Miles, Jennifer D.; Meridian Institute; jprattmiles@merid.org.
Parties should consider a collaborative approach to scientific inquiry and learning when there are multiple jurisdictions, resource users, and viewpoints about the best way to manage a social-ecological system. A collaborative process provides a forum for scientists, managers, and other stakeholders to raise and explain concerns, articulate management goals, and suggest strategies to address concerns and management actions to achieve goals. Collaborative problem solving engages parties in dialogue that facilitates understanding of different perspectives and creates an opportunity to reframe problems as hypotheses to be tested through the adaptive management process.    I review four potential structures for multistakeholder collaboration that have been...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaboration; Collaborative process; Ecosystem management; Natural resource management; Stakeholder.
Ano: 2013

Mismatch Between Scales of Knowledge in Nepalese Forestry: Epistemology, Power, and Policy Implications
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Ahlborg, Helene; Environmental Systems Analysis, Chalmers University of Technology; helene.ahlborg@chalmers.se; Nightingale, Andrea J.; Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh; School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburgh; andrea.nightingale@ed.ac.uk.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Community forestry; Knowledge scales; Natural resource management; Nepal; Power; Scale.
Ano: 2012

Mental Models:  An Interdisciplinary Synthesis of Theory and Methods
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Jones, Natalie A; School of Integrative Systems, University of Queensland; n.jones3@uq.edu.au; Ross, Helen; School of Integrative Systems, University of Queensland; Helen.Ross@uq.edu.au; Lynam, Timothy; CSIRO, Sustainable Ecosystems; tim.lynam@csiro.au; Perez, Pascal; CSIRO, Marine &amp; Atmospheric Research; ANU, RMAP/RSPAS; pascal.perez@anu.edu.au; Leitch, Anne; CSIRO, Sustainable Ecosystems; ARC CoE Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University ; Anne.Leitch@csiro.au.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Cognition; Elicitation; Mental model; Natural resource management.
Ano: 2011

Addressing Trade-offs: Experiences from Conservation and Development Initiatives in the Mkuze Wetlands, South Africa
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Dahlberg, Annika C.; Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University; annika.dahlberg@natgeo.su.se; Burlando, Catie; Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba; umburlac@cc.umanitoba.ca.
Present-day conservation policies generally include the aim to integrate biodiversity conservation and local development, and describe this as a win&amp;#8211;win solution that can satisfy all interests. This is challenged by research claiming that many efforts fail to match practice to rhetoric. South Africa has made strong commitments to fulfill the dual goals of conservation and development, and the iSimangaliso Wetland Park is promoted as an example of this. We explore present and potential outcomes of conservation and development interventions in a community bordering the Wetland Park through the perspective of different stakeholders, with the aim of uncovering opportunities and risks. In terms of improving local livelihoods as well as involvement in...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Integrated conservation and development; Mkuze wetlands; Natural resource management; Protected area; Rural livelihoods; South Africa; Trade-offs.
Ano: 2009

Delivering the Goods: Scaling out Results of Natural Resource Management Research
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Harrington, Larry; International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT); l.harrington@cgiar.org; White, Jeffrey; ; j.white@cgiar.org; Grace, Peter; Sinclair Knight Merz, Brisbane, Australia; pgrace@skm.com.au; Hodson, David; ; d.hodson@cgiar.org; Hartkamp, Agnes Dewi; Product Organisation Grains, Seeds and Pulses, The Hague, Netherlands; d.hartkamp@wisint.org; Vaughan, Christopher; CO MET Directorate of Environmental Affairs, Namibia; kit@africaonline.com.na; Meisner, Craig; ; cmeisner@bttb.net.bd.
To help integrated natural resource management (INRM) research "deliver the goods" for many of the world's poor over a large area and in a timely manner, the authors suggest a problem-solving approach that facilitates the scaling out of relevant agricultural practices. They propose seven ways to foster scaling out: (1) develop more attractive practices and technologies through participatory research (2) balance supply-driven approaches with resource user demands, (3) use feedback to redefine the research agenda, (4) encourage support groups and networks for information sharing, (5) facilitate negotiation among stakeholders, (6) inform policy change and institutional development, and (7) make sensible use of information management tools, including models...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Mexico; South Asia; Southern Africa; Conservation tillage; Diffusion of research; Environments; Geographic information systems; Natural resource management; Participatory research; Scaling out; Simulation models; Technology transfer.
Ano: 2001

Success Factors in Integrated Natural Resource Management R&amp;D: Lessons from Practice
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Chuma, Edward; University of Zimbabwe; chuma@africaonline.co.zw; Murwira, Kuda; Rural Development Consultant/Facilitator; kmurwira@zol.co.zw; Connolly, Mike; Agritex-GTZ Change Management Program; Mconnoly@internet.co.zw; Ficarelli, Paolo; Broadening Agricultural Service Delivery Program; BASE.GTZ@pixie.co.za.
This paper analyzes integrated natural resource management (INRM) lessons and success factors based on a practical case study over more than 10 years in Zimbabwe. The work was geared toward enhancing the adaptive management capacity of the stakeholders in their resource-use systems. One main result was the development and institutionalization of an approach for participatory and integrated NRM research and extension. The INRM approach described is grounded in a learning paradigm and a combination of theories: the constructivist perspective to development, systemic intervention, and learning process approaches. Participatory action research and experiential learning, in which researchers engage themselves as actors rather than neutral analysts in an...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Change management; Facilitation; Impact assessment; Institutionalization; Learning processes; Local organizational development; Natural resource management; Participatory approaches; Systemic intervention.
Ano: 2002

Human&amp;#8211;Nature Relationship in Mediterranean Streams: Integrating Different Types of Knowledge to Improve Water Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Clemente, Adelaide; Environmental Biology Centre, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon; maclemente@fc.ul.pt; Nielsen, Kurt Aagaard; Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, University of Roskilde; aagaard@ruc.dk; Branquinho, Cristina; Environmental Biology Centre, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon; cmbranquinho@fc.ul.pt.
The social and ecological systems of Mediterranean streams are intrinsically linked as a result of long human occupation. In this region, these links vary greatly across small distances due to geomorphology, resulting in great diversity across space, which poses particular challenges for understanding and managing these systems. This demands (i) interdisciplinary integration of knowledge that focuses on the social&amp;#8211;ecological interactions, while according due consideration to the whole; and also (ii) transdisciplinary integration, integrating lay and expert knowledge to understand local specificities. To address these needs&amp;#8212;a focus on interactions and local knowledge&amp;#8212;the research presented here studies the...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Co-evolution; Ecological indicators; Interdisciplinary; Local knowledge; Natural resource management; Portugal; Social&amp;#8211; Ecological systems; Transdisciplinary.
Ano: 2009

Cultural Landscapes as a Methodology for Understanding Natural Resource Management Impacts in the Western United States
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Toupal, Rebecca S; University of Arizona; rst@u.arizona.edu.
Multicultural demands on public lands in the United States continue to challenge federal land managers to address social and cultural concerns in their planning efforts. Specifically, they lack adequate knowledge of cultural concerns, as well as a consistent strategy for acquiring that knowledge for use in decision-making. Current federal approaches to understanding such issues as access, use, and control of resources include public participation, conservation partnerships, government-to-government consultations with American Indian tribes, cultural resource inventories, and landscape analysis. Given that cultural knowledge arises from human&amp;#8211;nature relationships and shared perceptions of natural environments, and that landscapes are the ultimate...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: American Indians; Cultural landscapes; Ethnographic data; Landscape perceptions; Natural resource management; Public participation.
Ano: 2003

Multilevel governance in community-based environmental management: a case study comparison from Latin America
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Sattler, Claudia; Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Institute of Socio-Economics; csattler@zalf.de; Meyer, Angela; Organisation for International Dialogue and Conflict Management; angela.meyer@idialog.eu; Giersch, Gregor; Organisation for International Dialogue and Conflict Management; gregor.giersch@idialog.eu; Meyer, Claas; Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Institute of Socio-Economics; claas.meyer@zalf.de; Matzdorf, Bettina; Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Institute of Socio-Economics; matzdorf@zalf.de.
We analyze four case studies from Latin America using the concept of multilevel governance to assess at what vertical and horizontal levels and in what roles various state, market, and civil society actors interact for successful community-based environmental management (CBEM). In particular, we address the problem of how a conflict over natural resources with high negative impacts on the livelihoods of the respective communities could be overcome by a governance change that resulted in a multilevel governance arrangement for CBEM. The analysis involves a mixed-methods approach that combines a variety of empirical methods in social research such as field visits, personal interviews, participant observations, and stakeholder workshops. To visualize results,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Civil society; Community management; Ecosystem services; Environmental governance; Intermediaries; Natural resource management.
Ano: 2016

Applying the system viability framework for cross-scalar governance of nested social-ecological systems in the Guiana Shield, South America
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Berardi, Andrea; The Open University; andrea.berardi@open.ac.uk; Mistry, Jayalaxshmi; Royal Holloway University of London; j.mistry@rhul.ac.uk; Bignante, Elisa; Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Torino; elisa.bignante@unito.it; Davis, Odacy; Iwokrama International Centre; odacyd@gmail.com; Haynes, Lakeram; North Rupununi District Development Board; lakehays@gmail.com; Benjamin, Ryan; North Rupununi District Development Board; garybejamin@gmail.com; Albert, Grace; North Rupununi District Development Board; grace.albert.cobra@gmail.com; Xavier, Rebecca; North Rupununi District Development Board; rebeccaxavier86@gmail.com; Jafferally, Deirdre; Iwokrama International Centre; deirdre.jafferally@gmail.com.
Linking and analyzing governance of natural resources at different scales requires the development of a conceptual framework for analyzing social-ecological systems that can be easily applied by a range of stakeholders whose interests lie at different scales, but where the results of the analysis can be compared in a straightforward way. We outline the system viability framework, which allows participants to characterize a range of strategies in response to environment challenges for maintaining the long-term survival of their particular system of interest. Working in the Guiana Shield, South America, and with a range of local, regional, and international stakeholders, our aim was to use system viability to (1) investigate synergies and conflicts between...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Brazil; Environmental governance; Guiana Shield; Guyana; Natural resource management; Participatory video; Sustainability indicators; System viability.
Ano: 2015

Exploring Panarchy in Alpine Grasslands: an Application of Adaptive Cycle Concepts to the Conservation of a Cultural Landscape
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Soane, Ian D.; Action with Communities in Cumbria; IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach; idsoane@gmail.com; Scolozzi, Rocco; IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach; scolozzi.rocco@gmail.com; Gretter, Alessandro; IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach; alessandro.gretter@iasma.it; Hubacek , Klaus; Department of Geography, University of Maryland; Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge; hubacek@umd.edu.
This paper explores approaches of applying the panarchy perspective to a case study of natural resource management in the cultural landscape of upland alpine pastures in northern Italy. The close interaction within the cultural landscape between alpine pasture ecology and the management regimes offers a strong fit with the concept of social-ecological systems and provides insights to appropriate and adaptive management of sites of conservation interest. We examine the limited literature available that offers a resilience understanding of such landscapes and address apparent gaps in the application through our interpretation and use of adaptive cycles and panarchy. We draft conceptual models of adaptive cycles considering ecological and socioeconomic...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive cycles; Alpine pastures; Cultural landscapes; Natura 2000; Natural resource management; Panarchy.
Ano: 2012

An interview methodology for exploring the values that community leaders assign to multiple-use landscapes.
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Hatton MacDonald, Darla; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; darla.hattonmacdonald@csiro.au; Bark, Rosalind; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; Rosalind.bark@csiro.au; MacRae, Andrea; University of Adelaide; andrea.snowden@gmail.com; Kalivas, Tina; Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University ; tina.kalivas@monash.edu; Strathearn, Sarah; University of Adelaide; sarah.strathearn@deewr.gov.au.
We report on a grounded theory research methodology to elicit the values that underpin community leaders&amp;#8217; advice on regional natural resource management. In-depth, semi-structured in-person interviews of 56 community leaders permitted respondents to explore their values and to elucidate some trade-offs. Furthermore, analysis of the coded transcripts provides evidence of  the anthropocentric nature of values, and the importance of people, communities, and physical infrastructure.  As well, the relative silence by community NRM leaders on supporting and regulating ecosystem services may reveal a lack of understanding of these functions rather than a discord in values.  The tested methodology provides one approach to understanding the values of...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Australia; Community leaders; Ecosystem services; Grounded theory; Natural resource management; Values.
Ano: 2013

Integrating Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Science in Natural Resource Management: Perspectives from Australia
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Bohensky, Erin L.; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; erin.bohensky@csiro.au; Butler, James R. A.; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; james.butler@csiro.au; Davies, Jocelyn; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; Jocelyn.Davies@csiro.au.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article
Palavras-chave: Australia; Indigenous knowledge; Knowledge integration; Natural resource management; Resilience.
Ano: 2013

Assessing the Sustainability of Small Farmer Natural Resource Management Systems. A Critical Analysis of the MESMIS Program (1995-2010)
Provedor de dados: 7
Sustainability assessment oriented to improve current systems and practices is urgently needed, particularly in the context of small farmer natural resource management systems (NRMS). Unfortunately, social-ecological systems (SES) theory, sustainability evaluation frameworks, and assessment methods are still foreign not only to farmers but to many researchers, students, NGOs, policy makers/operators, and other interested groups. In this paper we examine the main achievements and challenges of the MESMIS Program (Spanish acronym for Indicator-based Sustainability Assessment Framework), a 15-year ongoing effort with impact in 60 case studies and 20 undergraduate and graduate programs mainly in Ibero-America that is attempting to cope with the stated...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Complex systems; Latin America; Natural resource management; Small farmers; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability assessments.
Ano: 2012

The Political Economy of Cross-Scale Networks in Resource Co-Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Adger, W. Neil; Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; n.adger@uea.ac.uk; Brown, Katrina; University of East Anglia; k.brown@uea.ac.uk; Tompkins, Emma L.; University of East Anglia; e.tompkins@uea.ac.uk.
We investigate linkages between stakeholders in resource management that occur at different spatial and institutional levels and identify the winners and losers in such interactions. So-called cross-scale interactions emerge because of the benefits to individual stakeholder groups in undertaking them or the high costs of not undertaking them. Hence there are uneven gains from cross-scale interactions that are themselves an integral part of social-ecological system governance. The political economy framework outlined here suggests that the determinants of the emergence of cross-scale interactions are the exercise of relative power between stakeholders and their costs of accessing and creating linkages. Cross-scale interactions by powerful stakeholders have...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Caribbean; Institutions; Marine protected areas; Natural resource management; Power; Social-ecological resilience; Transaction costs.
Ano: 2005

The Six Faces of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Challenges and Opportunities for Canadian Co-Management Arrangements
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Houde, Nicolas; McGill University; nicolas.houde@mail.mcgill.ca.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Canada; Co-management; Co-management arrangement; First Nation; Natural resource management; Traditional ecological knowledge.
Ano: 2007

A Cognition-based View of Decision Processes in Complex Social&amp;#8211;Ecological Systems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Beratan, Kathi K.; Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University; Kathi_Beratan@ncsu.edu.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Cognition; Complex social&amp;#8211; Ecological systems; Cultural change; Decision making; Discourse; Natural resource management; Schemas.
Ano: 2007

Manager perspectives on communication and public engagement in ecological restoration project success
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Druschke, Caroline Gottschalk; University of Rhode Island; cgd@uri.edu; Hychka, Kristen C.; U.S. EPA, Atlantic Ecology Division; khychka@gmail.com.
We look to a particular social-ecological system, the restoration community in Rhode Island, USA and the rivers, wetlands, marshes, and estuaries they work to protect, to draw connections between communication, community involvement, and ecological restoration project success. Offering real-world examples drawn from interviews with 27 local, state, federal, and nonprofit restoration managers, we synthesize the mechanisms that managers found effective to argue that the communication employed by resource managers in each phase of the restoration process, in prioritization, implementation, and monitoring, and for garnering broad-based support, shapes the quality of public engagement in natural resources management, which, in turn, can impact the stakeholder,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive comanagement; Adaptive management; Communication; Discourse analysis; Natural resource management; Public engagement; Public participation; Restoration; River; Stakeholder engagement; Water.
Ano: 2015

Trust ecology and the resilience of natural resource management institutions
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Stern, Marc J; Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech; Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability; mjstern@vt.edu; Baird, Timothy D.; Department of Geography, Virginia Tech; Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability; tbaird@vt.edu.
The resilience of natural resource management (NRM) institutions are largely contingent on the capacities of the people and organizations within those institutions to learn, innovate, and adapt, both individually and collectively. These capacities may be powerfully constrained or catalyzed by the nature of the relationships between the various entities involved. Trust, in particular, has been identified repeatedly as a key component of institutional relationships that supports adaptive governance and successful NRM outcomes. We apply an ecological lens to a pre-existing framework to examine how different types of trust may interact to drive institutional resilience in NRM contexts. We present the broad contours of what we term &amp;#8220;trust...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptive governance; Functional redundancy; Institutional resilience; Natural resource management; Trust.
Ano: 2015

Using Artificial Neural Networks for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Frey, Ulrich J.; Center for Philosophy and the Foundations of Science, Justus Liebig University; ulifrey@yahoo.com; Rusch, Hannes; Center for Philosophy and the Foundations of Science, Justus Liebig University ; hannes.rusch@tum.de.
The literature on common pool resource (CPR) governance lists numerous factors that influence whether a given CPR system achieves ecological long-term sustainability. Up to now there is no comprehensive model to integrate these factors or to explain success within or across cases and sectors. Difficulties include the absence of large-N studies, the incomparability of single case studies, and the interdependence of factors. We propose (1) a synthesis of 24 success factors based on the current social-ecological systems (SES) framework and a literature review and (2) the application of neural networks on a database of CPR management case studies in an attempt to test the viability of this synthesis.   This method allows us to obtain an implicit quantitative...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Common pool resource; Design principles; Natural resource management; Neural networks; Social-ecological systems framework; Success factors.
Ano: 2013

A Classification of Collaborative Management Methods
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Blumenthal, Dana M; University of Minnesota; dblumenthal@npa.ars.usda.gov; Jannink, Jean-Luc; University of Minnesota; jjannink@iastate.edu.
Collaboration among multiple stakeholders can be crucial to the success of natural resource management. In recent years, a wide variety of methods have been developed to facilitate such collaboration. Because these methods are relatively new and come from different disciplines, little attention has been paid to drawing comparisons among them. Thus, it is very difficult for potential users to sort through the increasingly large literature regarding such methods. We suggest the use of a consistent framework for comparing collaborative management methods, and develop such a framework based on five criteria: participation, institutional analysis, simplification of the natural resource, spatial scale, and stages in the process of natural resource management. We...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Agriculture; Agroecosystem analysis; Collaboration; Ecosystem management; Natural resource management; Participatory rural appraisal; Rapid rural appraisal; Soft systems analysis.
Ano: 2000

The Problem of Scale in Indigenous Knowledge: a Perspective from Northern Australia
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Wohling, Marc; Charles Darwin University; mwohling@brahminyhouse.com.au.
Over the last decade, indigenous knowledge has been widely touted by researchers and natural resource managers as a valuable contributor to natural resource management and biodiversity conservation. In Australia, the concept of indigenous knowledge has gained such rapid currency that it has tended toward an essentialized and universal truth rather than remaining a diverse range of highly localized and contested knowledge.   In this paper, I undertake a critical analysis of some of the current issues around the interpretation and application of indigenous knowledge  and its relationship with natural resource management in northern Australia. Through a focus on how indigenous knowledge operates at a range of scales, I argue that indigenous knowledge is not...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Decision making; Ecological scale; Ecology; Ethnoecology; Indigenous knowledge; Natural resource management; Northern Australia.
Ano: 2009

Eliciting Mental Models: a Comparison of Interview Procedures in the Context of Natural Resource Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Jones, Natalie A; University of Queensland; n.jones3@uq.edu.au; Ross, Helen; University of Queensland; Helen.Ross@uq.edu.au; Lynam, Timothy; Reflecting Society; tim.lynam@internode.on.net; Perez, Pascal; University of Wollongong; pascal@uow.edu.au.
The sustainable management of natural resources largely depends on people&amp;#8217;s conceptions of environmental systems and how they function. The mental model construct provides an appropriate means to explore the cognitive dimension of people&amp;#8217;s interactions with such systems. Mental models are cognitive representations of external reality that people use as the basis for acting with and within the world around them. We aimed to improve the application of the mental model construct to the field of natural resource management, with an emphasis on creek, i.e., stream, systems, by exploring how certain elicitation procedures may affect the mental models expressed. One of the initial hurdles that must be overcome is to work out how to effectively...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Drawing; Elicitation; Interview; Mental model; Method; Natural resource management; Oral; Transect.
Ano: 2014

Communication in Natural Resource Management: Agreement between and Disagreement within Stakeholder Groups
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: de Nooy, Wouter; Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam; w.denooy@uva.nl.
Communication among stakeholders is commonly held to improve agreement on facts and management goals. Results from statistical network analyses of six natural resource management systems indicate that the effects of communication depend on context. If communication affects stakeholder knowledge and values, it fosters agreement between stakeholder groups but it results in more disagreement within stakeholder groups. In addition, more centralized communication networks have more disagreement, especially within stakeholder groups, while co-management systems have more disagreement between stakeholder groups. The results may reflect communication effects but also selection effects: the propensity of stakeholders or management systems to establish communication...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Communication networks; Interpersonal communication; Network autocorrelation; Natural resource management; Stakeholder groups.
Ano: 2013

Integrating research tools to support the management of social-ecological systems under climate change
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Miller, Brian W.; Department of the Interior North Central Climate Science Center, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University; brian.miller@colostate.edu; Morisette, Jeffrey T.; Department of the Interior North Central Climate Science Center, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University; U.S. Geological Survey; morisettej@usgs.gov.
Developing resource management strategies in the face of climate change is complicated by the considerable uncertainty associated with projections of climate and its impacts and by the complex interactions between social and ecological variables. The broad, interconnected nature of this challenge has resulted in calls for analytical frameworks that integrate research tools and can support natural resource management decision making in the face of uncertainty and complex interactions. We respond to this call by first reviewing three methods that have proven useful for climate change research, but whose application and development have been largely isolated: species distribution modeling, scenario planning, and simulation modeling. Species distribution...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Agent-based modeling; Complex-adaptive systems; Natural resource management; Scenario planning; Simulations; Species distribution modeling; State-and-transition modeling.
Ano: 2014

Community-Based Conservation and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Implications for Social-Ecological Resilience
Provedor de dados: 7
Our review highlights how traditional ecological knowledge influences people's adaptive capacity to social-ecological change and identifies a set of mechanisms that contribute to such capacity in the context of community-based biodiversity conservation initiatives. Twenty-three publications, including twenty-nine case studies, were reviewed with the aim of investigating how local knowledge, community-based conservation, and resilience interrelate in social-ecological systems. We highlight that such relationships have not been systematically addressed in regions where a great number of community conservation initiatives are found; and we identify a set of factors that foster people's adaptive capacity to social-ecological change and a number of social...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Biodiversity conservation; Community-based conservation; Ecosystem services; Local ecological knowledge; Natural resource management; Social-ecological change; Social-ecological resilience; Traditional ecological knowledge.
Ano: 2013

Integrating Research on Food and the Environment: an Exit Strategy from the Rational Fool Syndrome in Agricultural Science
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Ashby, Jacqueline A; Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical; J.ASHBY@CGIAR.ORG.
The thesis of this paper is that the "rational fool" syndrome can be applied to mainstream public sector agricultural research that is conducted in a way that is rational in the short term, but acts against its own long-term viability. Historically, a main concern of such research has been to maximize high levels of food production together with low prices to consumers. As a result, mainstream agricultural science has ignored negative impacts or externalities, which has contributed to a crisis of credibility with the general public and politically sensitive decision makers. A long-term strategic research agenda for the public sector is being defined that is new and relevant to present efforts to integrate natural resource management and sustainable...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Ecosystem health; Human health; Natural resource management; Rational fool syndrome; Strategic research; Sustainable agricultural production.
Ano: 2001

Social Learning and Natural Resource Management: The Emergence of Three Research Perspectives
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Rodela, Romina; Wageningen University and Research Centre; romina.rodela@wur.nl.
A review is presented of research contributions that use social learning in research on natural resource management. The review is based on an extensive survey of peer-reviewed journal articles appraised against the following selected analytical items: (1) characterizing features, (2) level of analysis, and (3) operational measures. Together, these allowed for an assessment of underlying assumptions and emerging themes. The findings suggest that, within natural resource management literature, three research approaches to social learning have been developed, each with its own assumptions about the learning process, learning outcomes, and operational practices. Hence, we find that a group of publications showed an interest for participants' learning...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Bibliography; Natural resource management; Social learning; Sustainability; Systematic review.
Ano: 2011

A Typology of Indigenous Engagement in Australian Environmental Management: Implications for Knowledge Integration and Social-ecological System Sustainability
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Hill, Rosemary; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; James Cook University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences; ro.hill@csiro.au; Grant, Chrissy; CTG Services; chrissy@webone.com.au; George, Melissa; Consultant; melissa@georgefenton.com.au; Robinson, Catherine J; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; catherine.robinson@csiro.au; Jackson, Sue; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; sue.jackson@csiro.au; Abel, Nick; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; nick.abel@csiro.au.
Indigenous peoples now engage with many decentralized approaches to environmental management that offer opportunities for integration of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK) and western science to promote cultural diversity in the management of social-ecological system sustainability. Nevertheless, processes of combining IEK with western science are diverse and affected by numerous factors, including the adaptive co-management context, the intrinsic characteristics of the natural resources, and the governance systems. We present a typology of Indigenous engagement in environmental management, derived through comparative analysis of 21 Australian case studies, and consider its implications for the integration of IEK with western science. Sociological and...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Environmental planning; Indigenous ecological knowledge; Integration; Intercultural; Governance; Natural resource management.
Ano: 2012

Practitioner Perceptions of Adaptive Management Implementation in the United States
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Benson, Melinda Harm; University of New Mexico; mhbenson@unm.edu; Stone, Asako B.; Central New Mexico Community College; astone10@cnm.edu.
Adaptive management is a growing trend within environment and natural resource management efforts in the United States. While many proponents of adaptive management emphasize the need for collaborative, iterative governance processes to facilitate adaptive management, legal scholars note that current legal requirements and processes in the United States often make it difficult to provide the necessary institutional support and flexibility for successful adaptive management implementation. Our research explores this potential disconnect between adaptive management theory and practice by interviewing practitioners in the field. We conducted a survey of individuals associated with the Collaborative Adaptive Management Network (CAMNet), a nongovernmental...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaborative Adaptive Management Network; Natural resource management; Organizational change; Practitioners.
Ano: 2013

The persistence of subsistence: qualitative social-ecological modeling of indigenous aquatic hunting and gathering in tropical Australia
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Barber, Marcus; Land and Water Flagship, CSIRO; marcus.barber@csiro.au; Jackson, Sue; Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University; sue.jackson@griffith.edu.au; Dambacher, Jeffrey; Digital Productivity Flagship, CSIRO; Jeffrey.Dambacher@csiro.au; Finn, Marcus; Australian Fisheries Management Authority; Marcus.Finn@afma.gov.au.
Subsistence remains critical to indigenous people in settler-colonial states such as Australia, providing key foundations for indigenous identities and for wider state recognition. However, the drivers of contemporary subsistence are rarely fully articulated and analyzed in terms of likely changing conditions. Our interdisciplinary team combined past research experience gained from multiple sites with published literature to create two generalized qualitative models of the socio-cultural and environmental influences on indigenous aquatic subsistence in northern Australia.  One model focused on the longer term (inter-year to generational) persistence of subsistence at the community scale, the other model on shorter term (day to season) drivers of effort by...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Aboriginal people; Future scenarios; Natural resource management; Qualitative modelling; Subsistence fishing.
Ano: 2015

Spatial Modeling of Risk in Natural Resource Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Jones, Peter; CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture); p.jones@cgiar.org; Thornton, Philip K; International Livestock Research Institute; P.Thornton@cgiar.org.
Making decisions in natural resource management involves an understanding of the risk and uncertainty of the outcomes, such as crop failure or cattle starvation, and of the normal spread of the expected production. Hedging against poor outcomes often means lack of investment and slow adoption of new methods. At the household level, production instability can have serious effects on income and food security. At the national level, it can have social and economic impacts that may affect all sectors of society. Crop models such as CERES-Maize are excellent tools for assessing weather-related production variability. WATBAL is a water balance model that can provide robust estimates of the potential growing days for a pasture. These models require large...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Crop modeling; Dryland agriculture; Global change; Global Circulation Model; Maize; Markov models; MarkSim; Natural resource management; Risk; Southern Africa; Spatial modeling; Weather simulation.
Ano: 2002

Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Social Resilience within Commercial Fisheries in Northern Australia
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Marshall, Nadine A; CSIRO; nadine.marshall@csiro.au; Marshall, Paul A; Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority; p.marshall@gbrmpa.gov.au.
How can we tell whether resource-dependent people are socially resilient to institutional change? This question is becoming increasingly important as demand for natural resources escalates, requiring resource managers to implement policies that are increasingly restrictive on resource users. Yet policy changes are frequently made without a good understanding of the likely social and economic consequences. Knowledge of the resilience of resource users to changes in resource-use policies can assist in the design and implementation of policies that minimize the impacts on people while maximizing the sustainability of ecosystem goods and services. Despite the appeal of resilience as a framework for sustaining human-environment relations, there has been a...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Social resilience; Social adaptation; Social impacts; Institutional change; Socio-ecological systems; Integrated research; Policy response; Natural resource management; Fishing; Australia.
Ano: 2007

Does Adaptive Management of Natural Resources Enhance Resilience to Climate Change?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Tompkins, Emma L; Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia; e.tompkins@uea.ac.uk; Adger, W. Neil; Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia; n.adger@uea.ac.uk.
Emerging insights from adaptive and community-based resource management suggest that building resilience into both human and ecological systems is an effective way to cope with environmental change characterized by future surprises or unknowable risks. We argue that these emerging insights have implications for policies and strategies for responding to climate change. We review perspectives on collective action for natural resource management to inform understanding of climate response capacity. We demonstrate the importance of social learning, specifically in relation to the acceptance of strategies that build social and ecological resilience. Societies and communities dependent on natural resources need to enhance their capacity to adapt to the impacts...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Caribbean; Trinidad and Tobago; Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Community-based management; Natural resource management; Social-ecological resilience.
Ano: 2004

A Moment of Mental Model Clarity: Response to Jones et al. 2011
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Wood, Matthew D; US Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center; Carnegie Mellon University; mwood1@andrew.cmu.edu; Bostrom, Ann; University of Washington; abostrom@uw.edu; Convertino, Matteo; University of Florida; Florida Climate Institute; mconvertino@ufl.edu; Kovacs, Daniel; Decision Partners LLC; dkovacs@decisionpartners.com; Linkov, Igor; US Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center; Igor.Linkov@usace.army.mil.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Response
Palavras-chave: Cognitive science; Expert elicitation; Mental model; Natural resource management; Stakeholder engagement.
Ano: 2012

Anpernirrentye: a Framework for Enhanced Application of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Natural Resource Management
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Walsh, Fiona J.; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; Fiona.Walsh@csiro.au; Dobson, Perrurle V.; senior Arrernte woman;; Douglas, Josie C.; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; josie.douglas@csiro.au.
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Aboriginal economy; Australia; Biodiversity; Bush foods; Cultural values; Desert; Indigenous knowledge system; Natural resource management; Social&amp;#8211; Ecological system.
Ano: 2013

INDICATORS – Constructing and validating indicators of the effectiveness of marine protected areas
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Pelletier, Dominique.
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Ecology and conservation; Natural resource management; Agriculture; Horticulture and forestry.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00177/28834/27460.pdf

Evaluation of the bioeconomic sustainability of multi-species multi-fleet fisheries under a wide range of policy options using ISIS-Fish
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Pelletier, Dominique; Mahevas, Stephanie; Drouineau, Hilaire; Vermard, Youen; Thebaud, Olivier; Guyader, Olivier; Poussind, Benjamin.
In order to provide reliable scientific advice and support for fisheries management, it is necessary to evaluate the biological and economic sustainability of complex fisheries, such as multi-species multi-fleet fisheries. Existing policy-screening modelling tools are not fully suitable in this purpose due to either an over-simplified description of population dynamics, or due to the lack of consideration of economic aspects. In this paper, we present a package that enables quantitative bioeconomic assessment of management scenarios. Population dynamics is described through spatially- and seasonally-explicit models. Exploitation dynamics is characterized by several fishing activities with specific spatial and seasonal features, and practiced by several...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Policy screening; Natural resource management; Fisheries dynamics; Bioeconomic model; Population dynamics; Complex systems; Simulation tool.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/publication-6782.pdf

Trend analysis of indicators: a comparison of recent changes in the status of marine ecosystems around the world
Provedor de dados: 5
Autores: Blanchard, Julia L.; Coll, Marta; Trenkel, Verena; Vergnon, Remi; Yemane, Dawit; Jouffre, Didier; Link, Jason S.; Shin, Yunne-jai.
Time-series of ecological and exploitation indicators collected from 19 ecosystems were analysed to investigate whether there have been temporal trends in the status of fish communities. Using linear and non-linear statistical methods, trends are reported for six indicators (mean length of fish in the community, mean lifespan, proportion of predatory fish, total biomass of surveyed species, mean trophic level of landings, and inverse fishing pressure), and the redundancy of these indicators across ecosystems is evaluated. The expected direction of change for an ecosystem that is increasingly impacted by fishing is a decline in all indicators. A mixture of negative and positive directions of change is recorded, both within and among all ecosystems...
Tipo: Text
Palavras-chave: Community; Ecological indicators; Ecosystem-based fisheries management; Ecosystem effects of fishing; Natural resource management.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00002/11373/8166.pdf

Livelihood strategies of rural households in Caprivi: Implications for conservancies and natural resource management
Provedor de dados: 20
Autores: LaFranchi, C.; Ashley, C.
This paper examines how rural Caprivians secure their livelihoods, in order to understand how wildlife and other community based natural resource management (CBNRM) initiatives can "fit in" to current activities and the rural economy. The livelihoods and priorities of different types of households are assessed, and the many positive and negative impacts of CBNRM initiatives identified. The aim is to understand wildlife and CBNRM from householders' perspectives, and recommend how conservancies, and other natural resource management initiatives can be implemented in ways that maximise the positive impacts to rural livelihoods and minimise the negative impacts. The paper first considers the wide range of resource uses and livelihood strategies employed by...
Tipo: Working Paper
Palavras-chave: Livelihoods; Conservation; Natural resources; Natural resource management; Http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_49869.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/296

Using resource economics for natural resource management: Namibia's experience.
Provedor de dados: 20
Autores: Ashley, C.; Barnes, J.; Brown, C.; Jones, B.
This paper is an attempt to examine how resource economics has been applied in Namibia. Specifically, the lessons learned during three and a half years of practical application of resource economics in environmental planning are identified. To assist in achieving the goal of sustainable, efficient and equitable use of natural resources in Namibia a resource economics programme was initiated in the Directorate of Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Environment and Tourism in 1993.
Tipo: Working Paper
Palavras-chave: Natural resource management; Http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_49869.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/539

Policies, Natural Resource Governance and Local Development
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Massuanganhe,   Israel Jacob.
The role that agriculture should play in economic development has been recognised for years. In recent years, concern has been expressed over rising agricultural and food prices. The world market prices for major food commodities have risen sharply to historic highs of more than 60 percent above levels just two years ago. Many factors have contributed to the rise in food commodity prices. Some factors reflect trends of slower growth in production and more rapid growth in demand that have contributed to a tightening of world balances of grains and oilseeds over the last decade. Other factors that have added to global food commodity price inflation include the declining value of the US dollar, rising energy prices, increasing agricultural costs of...
Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation
Palavras-chave: Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Decentralisation; Natural resource management; Land reform; Agricultural development; Governance; Participation; Local development; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Development; Political Economy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53061

Legal Pluralism and Dynamic Property Rights
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Meinzen-Dick,   Ruth Suseela; Pradhan,   Rajendra.
Conventional conceptions of property rights focus on static definitions of property rights, usually as defined in statutory law. However, in practice there is co-existence and interaction between multiple legal orders such as state, customary, religious, project and local laws, all of which provide bases for claiming property rights. Legal anthropological approaches that recognize this legal pluralism are helpful in understanding this complexity. Individuals may choose one or another of these legal frameworks as the basis for their claims on a resource, in a process referred to as “forum shopping.” Legal pluralism can create uncertainty especially in times of conflict because any individual is unlikely to have knowledge of all types of law that might be...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Property rights; Legal pluralism; Conflict; Law uncertainty; Natural resource management; Water; Water rights; Tenure; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55442

EFFECTIVENESS OF BYLAWS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES: The West African Experience
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Alinon,   Koffi; Kalinganire,   Antoine.
The role of various stakeholders in the management of natural resources is not clear in the West African countries. This paper discusses the historical changes in power delegation from central origins to peripheral institutions. The analysis covers the rise of bylaws across the Western African countries and links the multiplicity of bylaws to the amplification of the decentralization movement.   On the basis of a literature review and their own practitioners’ experiences, the authors demonstrate the pertinence of bylaws as a tool for better management of natural resources. In the West African Francophone context, bylaws could stand both for regulations enacted by decentralized authorities or “local conventions” binding village community groups. Where...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Bylaws; West Africa; Natural resource management; Decentralization; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50892

Climatic variability and cooperation in rangeland management: a case study from Niger
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: McCarthy,   Nancy; Vanderlinden,   Jean-Paul.
In this paper, we develop an empirical model of an agro-pastoral system subject to high climatic risk to test the impact of rainfall variability on livestock densities, land allocation patterns and herd mobility observed at the community level. Also, because grazing land is a common-pool resource, we determine the impact of cooperation on these decision variables. To capture different abilities of communities to manage these externalities, we construct indices comprised of factors considered to affect the costliness of achieving successful cooperation found in the collective action literature. We then test hypotheses regarding the impact of rainfall variability and cooperation using data collected in a semi-arid region of Niger. Results indicate that...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Rangelands; Environmental risk; Natural resource management; Pastoralism; Collective action; Cooperation; Institutions; Livestock stocking densities; Mobility; Niger; Land Economics/Use; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50058

RETHINKING REHABILITATION: SOCIO-ECOLOGY OF TANKS AND WATER HARVESTING IN RAJASTHAN, NORTH-WEST INDIA
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Shah,   Tushaar; Raju,   K. Vengama.
In the arid and semi-arid Indian state of Rajasthan, tanks and ponds have been a mainstay of rural communities for centuries. There are over 4600 large minor irrigation tanks, plus numerous johads, bandhs and pals (small water harvesting structures). This paper assesses a strategy proposed for rehabilitating 1200 of the larger tanks. It argues that treating tanks only as flow irrigation systems—which lies at the center of the mainstream thinking on rehabilitating surface irrigation systems--is very likely to result in a flawed strategy when applied to tanks. Instead, reviewing the successful experience of NGOs like PRADAN and Tarun Bharat Sangh in reviving and rehabilitating clusters of small traditional water harvesting structures at a watershed level, it...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Watershed; Watershed management; Multiple uses; Natural resource management; Tank rehabilitation; Collective action; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55440

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF GOVERNMENT  INTERVENTION IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Crean,   Jason; Pagan,   Phil; Curthoys,   Catherine.
The objectives of government in relation to natural resource management in agriculture have changed significantly over time. Similarly, the process that government employs to develop natural resource management policy has also evolved. In the past, policy has been developed centrally, while more recently there has been greater effort to involve the community in this process. There are clear linkages between changes in natural resource management objectives and changes in the policy development process. The implementation of the NSW Government’s Water Reforms is used as a case study to consider these linkages and to examine the advantages and disadvantages of moving to a more community based approach to natural resource management. The implications of this...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Water reform; Natural resource management; Policy process; Role of economists; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123797

Policy Innovation and Institutional Capacity Building: Putting Market-Based Instruments Into Practice in South Australia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Shi,   Tian.
As market-based instruments (MBIs) become a buzzword, there is an emerging expectation among policy makers and natural resource managers that MBIs should be more widely adopted. However, without the change of existing ideas and institutions, governments tend to continue to use the default regulatory and voluntary instruments. This paper provides an overview of policy instruments and the general expectations about the instrument choice when governments face policy implementation. Although it does not provide specific choice of individual instruments, some key issues and opportunities are identified for the wide adoption of MBIs in South Australia for sustainable NRM and economic development.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Market-based instruments; Institutional capacity building; Policy instrument; Instrument compatibility; Natural resource management; South Australia; Political Economy.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10373

Who knows, Who Cares?: Determinants of Enactment, Awareness and Compliance With Community Natural Resource Management Bylaws in Uganda
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nkonya,   Ephraim M.; Pender,   John L.; Kato,   Edward; Mugarura,   Samuel; Muwonge,   James.
Community-based Natural Resource Management (NRM) is increasingly becoming an important approach for addressing natural resource degradation in low income countries. This study analyzes the determinants of enactment, awareness of and compliance with by-laws related to Natural Resource Management (NRM) in order to draw policy implications that could be used to increase the effectiveness of by-laws in managing natural resources sustainably. We found a strong association between awareness and compliance with NRM bylaws. This suggests the need to promote environmental education as part of the strategy to increase compliance with NRM bylaws. Econometric analysis of the survey data indicates factors that are associated with enactment of local NRM bylaws, and...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Bylaws; Uganda; Natural resource management; Customary institutions; Compliance; Awareness; Enactment.; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42489

ANALYZING NEGOTIATION APPROACHES IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT -  A CASE STUDY OF CROP-LIVESTOCK CONFLICTS IN SRI LANKA
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Birner,   Regina.
Participatory approaches in natural resource management are increasingly being criticized for their tendency to neglect power relations and conflicts of interests. Negotiation approaches have been proposed as a strategy to overcome such shortcomings. Using the case of negotiations on crop-livestock conflicts in Sri Lanka as an empirical example, this paper proposes to apply the concept of political capital in combination with game theoretical modeling for an analysis of negotiation processes in natural resource management. The model serves to analyze both the incentive structure of the resource users, who are motivated by economic incentives, and the incentive structure of political decision-makers, who are motivated by political interests. The crucial...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Natural resource management; Negotiation; Political capital; Extensive form game; Sri Lanka; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q2.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25859

The potential impact of markets for irrigation water in Italy and Spain: a comparison of two study areas
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Pujol,   Joan; Raggi,   Meri; Viaggi,   Davide.
The viability of irrigated systems in Southern Europe is closely linked to efficient institutional settings and water-allocation mechanisms. A significant, although not widely used, mechanism for water allocation is an intra-sectorial water market. The objective of this paper is to evaluate to what extent water markets may contribute to the improvement of the efficiency of water allocation and to the profitability of irrigated agriculture. The related issues of water allocation among farm types and farm specialisation are also addressed. The analysis is based on a basin-level linear programming model, comparing the situation with and without a market. It includes both fixed and variable transaction costs and estimates their combined effects on market...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Water trading; Natural resource management; Simulation; Water management and policy; Linear programming; Irrigation; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116971

Precaution: principles and practice in Australian environmental and natural resource management
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Peterson,   Deborah C.
Since the late 1980s, the concept of precaution has been incorporated into numerous international agreements and laws, as well as in domestic statutes and policies in many countries. This paper examines the international emergence of the concept and its application in Australia. Despite rapid growth in adoption of the so-called ‘precautionary principle’, the concept remains highly controversial, and its success in terms of improving environmental and natural resource management has been questioned. A common misconception is that the principle prescribes action. In fact, internationally accepted definitions are about decision-making processes. This paper argues that implementation guidelines are essential to ensure that precautionary decision-making is...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Environment; Natural resource management; Precautionary principle; Uncertainty; Environmental Economics and Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116985

Methods of concensus building for community based fisheries management in Bangladesh and the Mekong delta
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Sultana,   Parvin; Thompson,   Paul M.
A method of consensus building for management of wetlands and fisheries using a systematic approach to participatory planning and initially developed in Bangladesh is now being applied in both Bangladesh and the Mekong delta. The method recognizes diversity in livelihoods and works through a structured learning and planning process that focuses on common interests. It works with each category of stakeholder separately to prioritize the natural resource problems that their livelihoods are largely dependent on, they then share and agree common priorities in plenary. Then the stakeholder groups separately analyze possible solutions and their impacts, before meeting in plenary to share their analysis and form a consensus on win-win solutions. The process...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Bangladesh; Vietnam; Action research; Consensus building; Participatory process; Collective action; Social capital; Wetlands; Natural resource management; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55445

Collective Action to Secure Property Rights for the Poor: A Case Study in Jambi Province, Indonesia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Komarudin,   Heru; Siagian,   Yuliana L.; Colfer,   Carol.
This study presents an approach to analyzing decentralized forestry and natural resource management and land property rights issues, and catalyzing collective action among villages and district governments. It focuses on understanding the current policies governing local people’s access to property rights and decision making processes, and learning how collective action among community groups and interaction among stakeholders can enhance local people’s rights over lands, resources, and policy processes for development. The authors applied participatory action research in two villages, one each in the Bungo and Tanjabbar districts of Jambi province (Sumatra), Indonesia, to facilitate identification of priorities through phases of planning, action,...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Decentralization; Natural resource management; Forest; Collective action; Property rights; Action research; Indonesia; Food Security and Poverty; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44363

Understanding rural life - assessing the social dimensions when encouraging land-use changes in rural areas
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Race,   Digby; Farquharson,   Robert J.; Birckhead,   Jim; Vernon,   Don; Bathgate,   Andrew D.
Meshed with the bio-physical and economic dimensions of rural land-use is a social dimension. Understanding the social and economic dimension of rural communities is critical if agencies are to develop effective policies and programs to improve natural resource outcomes. In this paper, we draw on research of the Boorowa community, located in the south-west slopes of New South Wales, to help understand how social changes in rural communities are impacting natural resource management in the Boorowa district. This included: • *Identifying the catalysts for changing land-use in the Boorowa catchment, • *Presenting an effective and efficient methodology for assessing the social and economic impacts of changes in land use at the catchment scale, • *Identifying...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Social; Natural resource management; Land-use change; Boorowa; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10379

Natural Resource Management, Food Security and Rural Development in Zambia: Moving From Research to Action
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Simasiku,   Phyllis; Chapoto,   Antony; Richardson,   Robert B.; Sichilongo,   Mwape; Tembo,   Gelson; Weber,   Michael T.; Zulu,   Alimakio.
More effective policies are needed to improve access and secure rights to land  and other natural resources for various stakeholders, particularly smallholder  farmers. Service delivery at all levels of governance needs to be restructured and strengthened in order to promote and improve economic development and management of natural resources in both open and protected areas. New strategies are needed for protecting and developing natural resource areas based on appropriate resource management systems that promote broad-based participation and sharing of benefits, and offer potential for more effective  community-based natural resource management. Improvements are needed in natural resource policy and law review processes in order to take better advantage...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Zambia; Food security; Rural development; Natural resource management; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Q16; Q18; Q27; Q30.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58543

Evaluating Watershed Management Projects
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kerr,   John M.; Chung,   Kimberly.
Watershed projects play an increasingly important role in managing soil and water resources throughout the world. Research is needed to ensure that new projects draw upon lessons from their predecessors’ experiences. However, the technical and social complexities of watershed projects make evaluation difficult. Quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods, which traditionally have been used separately, both have strengths and weaknesses. Combining them can make evaluation more effective, particularly when constraints to study design exist. This paper presents mixed-methods approaches for evaluating watershed projects. A recent evaluation in India provides illustrations.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Watershed; Natural resource management; Project evaluation; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50051

USE OF CATCHMENT SPECIFIC SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION IN MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ahmed,   Mehnaz; Jacobs,   Brent; Tracey,   Jacqueline.
Catchment specific economic and social information assists catchment management authorities in natural resource planning and decision making. It gives a context to the natural resource management (NRM) planning and decision making by providing an understanding of the economic and social characteristics in a region and tracks economic and social changes overtime. It also enables analysis of factors that influence a community’s competence in undertaking NRM activities. Catchment specific economic and social data is available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics but there are gaps in the availability of this data that may hinder NRM planning and decision making. The aim of this paper is two fold: firstly, it provides a snapshot of the economic and social...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Economic; Social; Data availability; Natural resource management; Catchment management authorities; Decision making; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47614

Adaptive Governance:  An Introduction and Implications for Public Policy
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hatfield-Dodds,   Steve; Nelson,   Rohan; Cook,   David C.
Adaptive governance is a concept from institutional theory that deals with the evolution of institutions for the management of shared assets, particularly common pool resources and other forms of natural capital. This paper is the first of a set of four papers on adaptive governance, providing a brief overview of the history of the concept, the distinguishing features of the literature, and key insights provided for economists and policy advisors. We argue that adaptive governance provides an interesting lens for examining the political economy of policy responses – akin to the concept of market failure within economics, but applied to wider processes of social learning and collective choice, including collective choices about the scope and structure of...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Adaptive governance; Public policy; Common pool resources; Natural resource management; Wicked problems; Institutional and Behavioral Economics.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10440

Assessing the Factors Underlying Differences in Group Performance: Methodological Issues and Empirical Findings from the Highlands of Central Kenya
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Place,   Frank; Kariuki,   Gatarwa; Wangila,   Justine; Kristjanson,   Patricia; Makauki,   Adolf; Ndubi,   Jessica.
This paper examines the performance of rural groups in Kenya and addresses the methodological issues and challenges faced in doing this, and presents the empirical evidence regarding various hypothesized explanatory factors for relative performance levels. Eighty-seven groups and 442 households were surveyed using several approaches. Various performance measures were tested. Both descriptive analysis and regression models were used to gain a better understanding of the group-level and household-level factors that explain performance. Collective action is desired and practiced for a large number of tasks. The findings highlight the incredible number, diversity and dynamic nature of groups in the highlands of Kenya (and we suspect this finding is not...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Collective action; Natural resource management; Technology adoption; Institutions; Kenya; Calliandra; Farm Management.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50060

IN PURSUIT OF COMPARABLE CONCEPTS AND DATA ABOUT COLLECTIVE ACTION
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Poteete,   Amy; Ostrom,   Elinor.
Research on collective action confronts two major obstacles. First, inconsistency in the conceptualization and operationalization of collective action, the key factors expected to affect collective action, and the outcomes of collective action hampers the accumulation of knowledge. Inconsistent terminology obscures consistent patterns. Second, the scarcity of comparable data thwarts evaluation of the relative importance of the many variables identified in the literature as likely to influence collective action. The International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) research program addresses both of these problems. Since its founding in 1993, the IFRI network of collaborating research centers has used a common set of methods and concepts to study...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Collective action; Institutions; Forestry research; Forestry; Natural resource management; Institutional and Behavioral Economics.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55444

Valuing the Non-Market Impacts of Underground Coal Mining
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gillespie,   Robert; Kragt,   Marit Ellen.
This paper has been published in a peer-reviewed journal as:  Gillespie, R. &amp; M. E. Kragt (2012). "Accounting for nonmarket impacts in a benefit-cost analysis of underground coal mining in New South Wales, Australia."  Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 3(2): article 4.  DOI: 10.1515/2152-2812.1101
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Australia; Benefit cost analysis; Coal mining; Choice experiments; Natural resource management; Non-market valuation; Environmental Economics and Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; D61; Q32; Q38; Q51.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98239

International conference on policy and institutional options for the management of rangelands in dry areas: workshop summary paper
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ngaido,   Tidiane; McCarthy,   Nancy; di Gregorio,   Monica.
The System-wide Program for Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) sponsored an International Conference on Policy and Institutional Options for the Management of Rangelands in Dry Areas, May 7-11, 2001 in Hammamet, Tunisia. The conference focused on institutional aspects of rangeland management and brought together policy makers and researchers from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and West Asia to discuss sustainable rangeland production strategies and livelihood of pastoral communities in dry areas. This conference summary paper contains summaries of the CAPRi sponsored research findings on institutional options for rangeland, policy makers’ interventions and reactions as well as the synthesis of discussion groups. These working groups evaluated...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Rangelands; Institutions; Natural resource management; Property rights; Collective action; Case studies; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; West Asia; North Africa; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50055

COOPERATION, COLLECTIVE ACTION AND NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN BURKINA FASO: A METHODOLOGICAL NOTE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: McCarthy,   Nancy; Dutilly-Diane,   Celine; Drabo,   Boureima.
This paper presents a detailed description of the applied methodology used to study collective action in natural resource management (NRM). Data were collected in 48 villages in northeastern Burkina Faso, at the community, institutional, household and market levels. The paper first discusses the analytical framework underlying the study of collective action, and then describes in detail the methods used to measure collective action and community-level cooperative capacity, and the determinants of cooperative capacity. We also describe data collection methods as well as potential problems in eliciting unbiased information. The impact of cooperative capacity on a variety of outcomes observed at both the community and household level is then presented in...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Collective action; Natural resource management; Burkina Faso; Cooperation; Social capital; Rangelands; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55441

Local institutions and Natural Resource Management
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Snell,   Margaret; Bell,   Kathleen P.; Leahy,   Jessica.
As researchers and policy-makers confront the challenges of and opportunities for improving natural resource management, increasing attention is being given to the dynamics of coupled natural-human systems.  Interdisciplinary study of these coupled systems has generated considerable research and management innovations.  Among these are more intensive research of the emergence and behavior of local institutions and consideration of the potential for voluntary and/or collaborative approaches to supplement conventional natural resource policy and management approaches.  Front and center in this line of research are studies of local institutional responses to common pool resource management issues.  Over time, this productive line of research is encouraging...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Local institutions; Natural resource management; Institutional economics; Lake associations; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61880

Managing Conflict Over Natural Resources in Greater Kordofan, Sudan: Some Recurrent Patterns and Governance Implications
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Siddig,   El Fatih Ali; El-Harizi,   Khalid; Prato,   Bettina.
Despite the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which brought to an end 20 years of civil war in the Sudan, this country continues to experience smaller-scale conflicts, particularly around access to and control of natural resources. Some observers lay the blame for this on ethnopolitical or tribal divisions. However, this paper argues that there are a variety of factors at play behind these conflicts, notably the combination of resource scarcity with a crisis of governance that is particularly evident in transitional areas like the Kordofan region. To gain a sense of the range of conflicts around natural resources in Kordofan, the authors reviewed existing records such as government archives; conducted interviews with politicians, federal and state...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Conflict management; Natural resource management; Small farmers; Land use; Livelihoods; Public spending; Infrastructure; Property rights; Governance; Sustainability; Sudan; East Africa; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42402

Policy Options for Increasing Crop Productivity and Reducing Soil Nutrient Depletion and Poverty in Uganda
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nkonya,   Ephraim M.; Pender,   John L.; Kaizzi,   Crammer; Edward,   Kato; Mugarura,   Samuel.
This study was conducted with the main objective of determining the linkages between poverty and land management practices in Uganda. The study used the 2002/03 Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) and more focused data collected from a sub-sample of 851 households of the 2002/03 UNHS sample households. We found that farmers in Uganda deplete about 1.2 percent of the nutrient stock stored in the topsoil per year, which leads to a predicted 0.31 percent reduction in crop productivity. The value of replacing the depleted nutrients using the cheapest inorganic fertilizers is equivalent to about 20 percent of household income obtained from agricultural production. Econometric analysis of the survey results provides evidence of linkages between poverty and...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Uganda; Land degradation; Soil nutrient depletion; Poverty; Crop productivity; Natural resource management; Land management; Crop Production/Industries; Food Security and Poverty; Q15; Q57; Q51.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59227

Linear Programming and Future Landuse Scenarios: An Irrigated Catchment Case Study
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gyles,   Oliver; Montecillo,   Olive P.
Potential for change in the mix of irrigated enterprises was estimated for a catchment in the Shepparton irrigation region using linear programming. The model allocated resources to maximise net income in each of the next five decades as if the catchment were one farm. Change was driven by price trends and productivity and constrained by water resources, land capability and investment capital. On the basis of the assumptions implicit in the model and sensitivity testing carried out, it appears more likely that there will be a rapid decline in irrigated cropping and pasture based meat production in conjunction with a significant increase in irrigated dairying in the first two decades, followed by an interchange of resources between dairying and new...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Irrigation; Enterprise; Productivity; Change; Water allocation; Policy; Economic growth; Natural resource management; Linear programming; Shepparton Irrigation Region; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123809

Household Behavior Under Market Failures: How Natural Resource Management in Agriculture Promotes Livestock Production in the Sahel
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dutilly-Diane,   Celine; Sadoulet,   Elisabeth; de Janvry,   Alain.
Improved water harvesting and soil erosion control using the remarkably simple practice of contour stone bunding is shown to increase grain yields by 41% in low rainfall regions of Burkina Faso. Empirical results show that yield increases in food crops help foodbuying farm households import substitute in food consumption, reduce livestock production, and increase seasonal migration which is more compatible with seasonal agriculture than with the yearlong livestock activity. Self-sufficient households, by contrast, can take advantage of higher yields to free resources from food production and allocate these to expand their livestock economy, thus benefiting more from the region's comparative advantage. We also show that greater effectiveness in cooperation...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Farm household model; Natural resource management; Sahel; Consumer/Household Economics; Livestock Production/Industries; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; 055; Q12; Q20.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25061

Exploring natural resource management tradeoffs in an agricultural landscape - an application of the MOSAIC model.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lawson,   Kenton; Hill,   Christine M.; Hodges,   Andrew; Jacobs,   Brent.
We describe a landscape scale non-linear discrete choice spatial optimisation model for identifying cost-effective strategies for achieving environmental goals. Spatial heterogeneity and configuration issues such as fencing costs, patch sizes and network linkages are explicitly accounted for and quasi-optimal allocations are determined using simulated annealing. Applications of the model being developed with New South Wales Catchment Management Authorities are discussed. These focus on targeting investments in revegetation to control dryland salinity and erosion and provide biodiversity benefits whilst minimising direct and opportunity costs. We compare our approach with alternate investment approaches.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Natural resource management; Cost effectiveness; Land use change; Multicriteria; Spatial optimisation; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10374