Between argument and coercion: Social coordination in rural environmental governance

Taylor, Bruce

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2010.05.002

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“…At face value, although this approach relies more on institutional collaboration than on regulation, there is something of a paradox in play. The paradox of this more collaborative or inclusive approach is that the broader rules that set the policy agenda, operational environment, and responsibilities for implementation in which collaboration occurs are increasingly framed by central government authority (Taylor 2010). In this way governments are devolving or sharing accountability for action while often recentralizing the locus of control of the implementation apparatus (Boonstra and Van Den Brink 2007).…”

Section: Scale and Australian Environmental Governancementioning

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From local to central: a network analysis of who manages plant pest and disease outbreaks across scales

McAllister¹,

Robinson²,

Maclean³

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ABSTRACT. One of the key determinants of success in managing natural resources is "institutional fit," i.e., how well the suite of required actions collectively match the scale of the environmental problem. The effective management of pest and pathogen threats to plants is a natural resource problem of particular economic, social, and environmental importance. Responses to incursions are managed by a network of decision makers and managers acting at different spatial and temporal scales. We applied novel network theoretical methods to assess the propensity of growers, local industry, local state government, and state and national government head offices to foster either within-or across-scale coordination during the successful 2001 Australian response to the outbreak of the fungal pathogen black sigatoka (Mycosphaerella fijiensis). We also reconstructed the response network to proxy what that network would look like today under the Australian government's revised response system. We illustrate a structural move in the plant biosecurity response system from one that was locally driven to the current top-down system, in which the national government leads coordination of a highly partitioned engagement process. For biological incursions that spread widely across regions, nationally rather than locally managed responses may improve coordination of diverse tasks. However, in dealing with such challenges of institutional fit, local engagement will always be critical in deploying flexible and adaptive local responses based on a national system. The methods we propose detect where and how network structures foster cross-scale interactions, which will contribute to stronger empirical studies of cross-scale environmental governance.

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Section: Scale and Australian Environmental Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

From local to central: a network analysis of who manages plant pest and disease outbreaks across scales

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Robinson²,

Maclean³

et al. 2015

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“…Se pretende organizar una red de núcleos de población que favorezca la dispersión de la población y de la riqueza y, con esto, un desarrollo más equilibrado de todo el territorio europeo (COMISIÓN EUROPEA, 1998). Se habla, por lo tanto, de una clara necesidad de una comarcalización en la que el mundo rural se inserte en una estrategia más amplia de ordenación territorial planteada mediante el diseño de una red de ciudades que suministren todos los bienes y servicios necesarios al espacio rural integrado en su hinterland y con la que se establezca una cooperación urbano-rural que conlleve a la fijación de la población en los municipios más desfavorecidos aprovechando las nuevas infraestructuras y mejoras en la accesibilidad (OCDE, 2013) y con la que se contribuya en la búsqueda de soluciones a problemas complejos existentes en los espacios rurales y agrícolas (TAYLOR, 2010). Es primordial plantear una nueva reorganización administrativa única de comarcas o partenariados rurales-urbanos como estructuras para el desarrollo regional desde donde se gestionen de manera conjunta servicios de calidad de vida, energía, transporte, turismo o innovación y teniendo en cuenta, sobre todo, las interdependencias y similitudes existentes en estos territorios más que las diferencias entre lo urbano y lo rural (CAFFYN y DAHLSTRÖM, 2004).…”

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Análisis espacial de la ordenación territorial en áreas rurales de baja densidad demográfica: El caso de Extremadura

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RESUMENLa ordenación del territorio en partenariados rurales-urbanos es una de las cuestiones más en boga actualmente. El objetivo que con ellos se persigue es la organización óptima de los recursos y equipamientos en espacios rurales en crisis y con graves problemas demográficos y socioeconómicos. La región que se analiza en este trabajo, Extremadura, es un espacio predominantemente rural en el que existen desigualdades en sus realidades sociales, económicas y demográficas, agravadas en algunos espacios y que no son resueltas a través de las diferentes comarcalizaciones establecidas en su territorio. Así, en este estudio, se revisan las diferentes divisiones comarcales de la región extremeña con el fin de detectar su grado de solapamiento y de localizar, aplicando una metodología basada en el Análisis de Componentes Principales, los núcleos que están ejerciendo en la actualidad como cabecera comarcal y que podrían actuar como centros de una futura y única organización territorial. Para comprobar el nuevo diseño, se aplican modelos de accesibilidad y gravedad a través de Sistemas de Información Geográfica y softwares estadísticos.Palabras clave: Comarca; Ordenación del Territorio; Sistemas de Información Geográfica; Análisis de Componentes Principales; Análisis de Redes. SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF THE PARTNERSHIPS DIVISION IN RURAL AREAS WITH LOW POPULATION DENSITY: THE CASE OF EXTREMADURA ABSTRACTTerritorial planning trough the creation of rural-urban partnerships is one of the hottest issues today. The purpose is to organize efficiently the resources and equipment of rural areas in crisis y with demographic and socioeconomic problems. In this work, Extremadura is analyzed, which is a predominantly rural space in which inequalities in its social, economic and demographic realities exist. This situation is more worrying in some spaces and it is not solved through the different comarcalizations established in its territories. In this way, we review the different territorial divisions of the Extremadura in order to detect their degree of overlap and to locate, applying a methodology based on the Principal Components Analysis, the towns that are currently exercising as county seats, which could act as centers of a future and unique territorial organization. To verify the new design, accessibility and gravity models are applied through Geographic Information Systems and statistical software.

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“…In this case, and in that described by Taylor (2010), the non-traditional alliance of stakeholders may have represented the formation of a superordinate identity which subsumed historical inter-stakeholder conflict. These examples share the attribute of intervention which has, intentionally or unintentionally, broadened the socio-political context within which the conflict legacy for these stakeholder groups had been established, causing a reframing of the nature of the relationships.…”

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“…This includes the institutionalisation of interest groups in the decision-making process (Lane 2003) and mandated processes for eliciting the views of communities and the broader public (Taylor 2010). The imperative for governance is based on arguments that this mode of decision-making leads to enhanced outcomes, public acceptance, and civil engagement as instrumental or intrinsic goods (Jennings and Moore 2000;Zammit et al 2000;Lane et al 2004;Reed 2008;Gritten et al 2009;Reed et al 2009;Taylor 2010;Buijs and Lawrence 2013). However, in addition to the expected benefits of governance, there are critiques about the negative consequences for ENRM decision-making when governance is poorly managed.…”

Section: Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Reflecting on the contexts of both Taylor (2010) and Colvin et al (2015a), the potential for finding a 'common ground' on which a shared identity can be formed may be limited by the scope of the type of ENRM issue; i.e., the potential for overlap of interests in the socio-ecological dimension of the ENRM issue may logically be viewed as a prerequisite for finding common ground in the sociopolitical dimension of that issue. In the case of a purely dichotic ENRM issue, common ground as a pathway toward formation of a shared identity may not be possible.…”

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The social identity approach to understanding stakeholder conflict in environmental and natural resources management

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Conflict between stakeholders about environmental and natural resources management (ENRM) issues is a significant challenge for achieving sustainable outcomes for people and the environment.Although conflict can be a constructive and important part of deliberative processes, ENRM routinely experiences dysfunctional conflict, where people involved focus on their perceived incompatibilities rather than finding solutions for the problem. This form of dysfunctional conflict leads to decision-making stagnation and exacerbation of issues which require timely management.The self-perpetuating nature of conflict means that relationships between people and groups become strained, and the potential for cooperation and compromise is undermined. In ENRM, conflict is addressed, often implicitly, through the practice of stakeholder engagement. Although advancements have been made on stakeholder engagement processes through both research and practice, conflict continues to manifest in ENRM issues.This thesis investigates ENRM conflict through analysing the contribution of ENRM stakeholder engagement practice to the prevalence of dysfunctional conflict. In order to understand the hidden complexities and drivers of conflict, the social identity approach has been applied as a theoretical lens. The social identity approach is a theoretical perspective from social psychology which explains how people become members of groups, and how groups interact. As such it is well suited to a study of ENRM conflict, where the heart of the conflict is how groups of people -stakeholders -interact with each other.First, the thesis outlines the theoretical basis for the interest in ENRM conflict, and makes a case for both why stakeholder engagement processes are a critical aspect of conflict which are worthy of investigation, and why the social identity approach is a useful theoretical lens. Following this, a theory building approach to integration of the literature across disciplines is used to present a way of understanding the human dimension of ENRM conflict, and the argument is made for the use of the social identity approach. As a result, a clear distinction is made between 'stakeholders' and 'the citizenry', where stakeholders are formalised groups with a defined interest, and the citizenry is everyone else. An integrative conceptual model for ENRM conflict is created, and is analysed with the application of the social identity approach.Next, the thesis examines the processes taken by ENRM practitioners to identify stakeholders, thereby filling a recognised gap in the literature. This is undertaken with the use of semi-structured interviews with experienced ENRM practitioners, analysed qualitatively. As a result, a typology of approaches to identification of stakeholders is presented, and the previously proposed distinction iii between stakeholders and the citizenry is shown to be reflective of how practitioners categorise people in the context of ENRM issues.The thesis then investigates a case study of a large-scale wind energy d...

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Between argument and coercion: Social coordination in rural environmental governance

Cited by 47 publications

References 37 publications

From local to central: a network analysis of who manages plant pest and disease outbreaks across scales

From local to central: a network analysis of who manages plant pest and disease outbreaks across scales

Análisis espacial de la ordenación territorial en áreas rurales de baja densidad demográfica: El caso de Extremadura

The social identity approach to understanding stakeholder conflict in environmental and natural resources management

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