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| Provedor de dados: |
Ecology and Society
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| País: |
Canada
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| Título: |
The Political Economy of Cross-Scale Networks in Resource Co-Management
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| 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
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| Data: |
2005-11-15
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| Ano: |
2005
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| Palavras-chave: |
Caribbean
Institutions
Marine protected areas
Natural resource management
Power
Social-ecological resilience
Transaction costs.
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| Resumo: |
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 the potential to undermine trust in resource management arrangements. If government regulators, for example, mobilize information and resources from cross-level interactions to reinforce their authority, this often disempowers other stakeholders such as resource users. Offsetting such impacts, some cross-scale interactions can be empowering for local level user groups in creating social and political capital. These issues are illustrated with observations on resource management in a marine protected area in Tobago in the Caribbean. The case study demonstrates that the structure of the cross-scale interplay, in terms of relative winners and losers, determines its contribution to the resilience of social-ecological systems.
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| Tipo: |
Peer-Reviewed Insight
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
vol10/iss2/art9/
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| Editor: |
Resilience Alliance
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| Formato: |
text/html application/pdf
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| Fonte: |
Ecology and Society; Vol. 10, No. 2 (2005)
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