Adaptive Governance of Cape Mountain Zebra, Can It Work?

Novellie, Peter; Birss, Coral; Cowell, Carly; Kerley, Graham I. H.; Peinke, Dean M.; Pfab, M.F.; Selier, Jeanetta; Zimmermann, David

doi:10.3957/056.047.0079

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“…Only one paper explicitly examined and theorized environmental governance strategies that embrace the complexity of governance and can respond effectively to changing and unpredictable environmental dynamics in Africa (Shinn, 2016). Across these papers, the authors express a pressing need to shift away from current development paths to sustainability guided by AG principles (Niekerk, 2014;Blekking et al, 2017;Novellie et al, 2017;Chomba et al, 2019;Yasmin et al, 2020;Yasmin et al, 2022). Various factors such as socio-economics, politics, institutions, technology, knowledge sharing, and the involvement of donor agencies play a crucial role in this transformation.…”

Section: Emergence Of Ag In African and South Asian Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Coordination between various stakeholders or polycentric governance (complex, multi-layered with multiple centres of decision-making) is effective in sustainable water governance in Bangladesh (Yasmin et al, 2022). Noveli and colleagues (Novellie et al, 2016;Novellie et al, 2017) revealed that polycentrism supported the resolution of nested across levels of governance, function, structured with multiple centres of power, and connected through networks in South African park management and water governance in Bangladesh (Yasmin et al, 2020;Yasmin et al, 2022) and disaster management in India (Walch, 2019). Choudhury et al (2021) gathered evidence that multilevel institutions (local, regional, and national) adopt collaborative multi-loop social learning which significantly enhances community resilience to climate-induced disaster shocks and reduces gaps between local disaster governance capacities and responsibilities in Bangladesh.…”

Section: Coordination Between Stakeholders and Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…AG recognizes and seizes windows of opportunities for governance transition and regime change (Knüppe, 2011). The review identified the process of AG was initiated in response to the present health crisis (COVID-19 pandemic) in India and Bangladesh (Khan et al, 2020;Rao et al, 2020) or past or impending crises such as natural disasters or resource management in both Africa and South Asia confirming a high reliance on devious moments for empirical governance change (Djalante et al, 2011;Novellie et al, 2016;Novellie et al, 2017;Walch, 2019;Choudhury et al, 2021). Yasmin et al (2022) reveals how social movement creates pressure on governance to adopt more adaptive water governance in Bangladesh.…”

Section: Exploring Governance Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Accountability is essential to develop rules that govern information flow and communication between natural resource organizations at multiple scales in South Africa (Novellie et al, 2016;Novellie et al, 2017). Bedi, (2019) identified how meaningful public participation and collaboration can enhance transparency and accountability in the water governance planning and decision-making process in Pakistan which is also essential in integrated water management in South Africa (Herrfahrdt-Pähle, 2013).…”

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Emerging attributes of adaptive governance in the global south

Akther,

Evans

2024

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Adaptive governance is widely considered an effective approach to address the complexities and uncertainties of socio-ecological systems. The application of adaptive governance to sustainable environmental governance in the global south has not been sufficiently explored. There is a gap in the literature in the global south, especially given its conceptual roots in the global north. A number of reviews identified some key conceptual and practical gaps related to adaptive governance principles and the challenges to implementing them. To address this gap, this paper presents a systematic literature review of adaptive governance scholarship focused on the global south published between 2003 and 2022. The review discusses adaptive governance’s key principles and framings, as well as the challenges of implementing it in the global south. This paper examines the factors that influence the emergence of adaptive governance and how this framing has been used to understand effective environmental governance within the global south’s diverse socio-political and institutional settings. The review specifically focuses on Africa and South Asia, which are densely populated with limited financial and institutional capacity. Sustainable environmental governance is crucial in these regions not only for the wellbeing of the population, but also for the health of the planet. A review of adaptive governance scholarship identified emerging attributes that improve government structures and processes, as well as proposed attributes that would minimize challenges and improve adaptive capacity. The key emerging attributes are formal and informal networks, social learning, community engagement and proposed attributes are flexible, integrated and participatory institutional governance, inclusive decision making, context-specific strategies, accountability, and capacity development. These attributes provide a framework for adaptive governance scholarship for examining different governance structures and processes in different socio-ecological systems. This paper concludes with a framework for future research that can facilitate adaptive governance in the context of sustainable environmental management in the global south.

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Section: Emergence Of Ag In African and South Asian Regionsmentioning

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Section: Coordination Between Stakeholders and Levelsmentioning

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Section: Exploring Governance Opportunitiesmentioning

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Emerging attributes of adaptive governance in the global south

Akther,

Evans

2024

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Considered vulnerable to extinction (Gosling et al 2018), the mountain zebra E. zebra is a wild equid native to southern Africa. Most nontaxonomic research to date has focused on the Cape mountain zebra E. z. zebra subspecies of South Africa, including studies of behavior, ecology, and demography (Penzhorn 1982, 1988, Lloyd & Rasa 1989, Penzhorn & Novellie 1991, Rasa & Lloyd 1994, Smith et al 2007), effects of habitat selection (Weel et al 2015, Lea et al 2016, and management (Watson et al 2005, Watson & Chadwick 2007, Novellie et al 2017 as well as disease and parasites (Krecek et al 1994). Far less is known about the Hartmann's mountain zebra E. z. hartmannae, the only other subspecies.…”

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Hartmann’s mountain zebra resource selection and movement behavior within a large unprotected landscape in northwest Namibia

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Endang. Species. Res.

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Expanding human populations, combined with an increasingly variable climate, present challenges to the conservation of wide-ranging wildlife species, particularly for populations that persist in human-dominated landscapes. Although the movements and space use of many equid species have been well studied, comparable research of the Hartmann's mountain zebra (HMZ) Equus zebra hartmannae, which primarily inhabits communal and commercial farming areas of Namibia, has been scarce and may limit conservation effectiveness. Here, we investigated the environmental and anthropogenic factors influencing HMZ movements and resource use across a large area of their range in northwestern Namibia. We deployed 6 GPS collars on HMZ during 2011 to 2013 and used integrated step selection functions to quantify HMZ movements and space use. HMZ movements averaged ~5 km d −1 , and mean seasonal home range sizes were 681 and 256 km 2 in the wet and dry season, respectively. HMZ selected for areas with high normalized difference vegetation index values (used as a proxy for primary production), particularly during the dry season, while avoiding areas further from water and closer to human settlements, although the effect was less apparent during the rainy season. Movement rates increased when HMZ crossed roads and were closer to roadways, but rates were not impacted by proximity to human activities. These results provide insights toward mitigating human−HMZ conflict. We highlight the difficulty a changing and less predictable climate creates for grazing species living in arid regions, as they must expend more energy and navigate dangers of a growing human footprint to seek out valuable but ephemeral forage.

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Adaptive Governance of Cape Mountain Zebra, Can It Work?

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Emerging attributes of adaptive governance in the global south

Emerging attributes of adaptive governance in the global south

Hartmann’s mountain zebra resource selection and movement behavior within a large unprotected landscape in northwest Namibia

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