Building capital through bioregional planning and biosphere reserves

Brunckhorst, David J.

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“…3. Nesting of structural and functional components of ecological units (after Brunckhorst and Rollings, 1999;Brunckhorst, 2000Brunckhorst, , 2001. Human interaction with the environment occurs mainly at landscape scales, but across relatively short time periods.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A loosely networked hierarchy (Slocombe, 1983;Meidinger, 1998) that captures communities of common interest and similar natural landscapes might also balance bottom-up citizen participation and engagement with administrative control while allowing for variable task organisation, knowledge sharing, efficient resource use, coordination and integration (Meidinger, 1997(Meidinger, , 1998Reeve, 1998;Shannon, 1998Shannon, , 2000Rollings and Brunckhorst, 1999;Brunckhorst, 2000Brunckhorst, , 2001Marshall, 2001). Fig.…”

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“…In this paper we use the following meanings for society and its institutions (after Reeve, 1992Reeve, , 1997Reeve, , 1998Shannon, 1992Shannon, , 1998Gunderson et al, 1995;Brunckhorst, 2001Brunckhorst, , 2002. A social system refers to any group of people who interact long enough to create a shared set of understandings, norms, or routines to integrate action and established patterns of dominance and resource allocation.…”

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“…These approaches also have the potential to create uniquely robust governance institutions that possess the essential dynamic qualities to enable improved adaptive capacities to the emergent processes that constantly challenge rural (non-metropolitan) communities (Reeve, 1992(Reeve, , 1997Shannon, 1992Shannon, , 1998Gunderson et al, 1995;Johnson et al, 1999;Brunckhorst, 2001Brunckhorst, , 2002. Transformation to a more effective resource governance framework will also draw on the notions of a bioregional framework (sensu Brunckhorst, 2000) and an effective nested arrangement that better represent a community's actual interests in a particular regional landscape while retaining the capacity to address resource governance issues at appropriate ecological scales, creating in effect an institutional interface that bridges social and ecological processes while providing workable administrative arrangements (e.g., for natural resource management agencies, Local Government Areas and other government services; see Berkes and Folke, 1998;Omernik and Bailey, 1997;Reeve, 1998).…”

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‘Eco-civic’ optimisation: A nested framework for planning and managing landscapes

Brunckhorst

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Reeve

2006

Landscape and Urban Planning

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An important institution for regional resource governance is civic engagement in local affairs, including resource use issues. Local civic engagement has traditionally been structured around local government and, more recently, to catchment-based decision-making bodies. If citizens are to participate in regional resource management in ways that are meaningful to them, it is important that both the landscape units being discussed and the jurisdictional boundaries are meaningful. We have been examining how boundaries for resource management regions might be identified. Three considerations are believed to be important if regional resource management is to be meaningful to the citizens involved. Firstly, that the regional boundaries maximise the areal proportion of the region that residents consider to be part of their 'community', which should lead to greater commitment to civic engagement in resource management. Secondly, that the character of the landscape units within the region possess a high degree of homogeneity, reflecting greater coincidence of interest among the inhabitants of the region. The third consideration is a hierarchical multi-scaling capacity to deal with externalities of resource use. The approach was tested through identification of a series of nested 'eco-civic' resource management regions for north-eastern New South Wales in Australia. The results delineate resource governance regions that nest at local to regional scales for integrated natural resource management. Such 'eco-civic' regions demonstrate a better spatial representation of social and ecological characteristics than existing regional frameworks. Crown

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‘Eco-civic’ optimisation: A nested framework for planning and managing landscapes

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2006

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“…However, setting up informal governance by local communities or non-government organisations could be weakened in their operation because they lack authority. Thus, government commitment, involvement and understanding of the role of local participation is crucial for BR success (Brunckhorst, 2001). …”

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Factors influencing the management effectiveness of the biosphere reserve model: The case of Vietnam

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Vietnam allows the province and city authority some flexibility in interpreting the central policies and regulations that could benefit BR operation and management locally, the way this is interpreted varies with the commitment and engagement of the provincial leaders. Lack of true understanding ii of the BR approach coupled with unclear guidance on BR planning and management led to most of the management effort being paid to the conservation of the core PAs.Specific study of the Kien Giang Biosphere Reserve (KGBR) showed a similar operational "disconnect" between concept and practice as in most other BRs in Vietnam. Whilst major attention has been paid to compliance with the UNESCO Man the Biosphere rules, little effort and investment has been made in the practical implementation of the concepts they embody. Lack of public awareness and understanding, state-control based on a strong sectoral approach to BR planning and management hindered broader stakeholder participation. Weak engagement from provincial leader in BR governance limited cross-sectoral collaboration process for effective delivery BR mandate functions that differentiates BRs from the conventional conservation PA approach. The study found that external projects only have a temporary impact on operation of the KGBR because they often start with small, time-bound demonstration models which negatively condition the community attitude to the projects and by association the BR.Using Enhancing our Heritage Toolkit (EoH) developed by IUCN and UNESCO for evaluation of management effectiveness, the study found that while the KGBR has been operating for a decade, the management planning process has not been completed. While a management system was established in KGBR it has proved inadequate to the task in operation because of structural deficiencies in the BR Management Board, lack of trained staff with BR knowledge and no allocation of operational funding specifically for BR activities. There appears a difficulty to achieve desired outcomes. Due to the absence of an approved operational plan with a monitoring and evaluation system has meant that assessment of management effectiveness of the KGBR against the key performance indicators has not been possible.To improve performance and effectiveness of the BR model in Vietnam, BRs should have nationally legal recognition that provides legitimacy for setting up clear BR governance structure and cross sectoral collaboration, and increase funding opportunity from central government for BR delivery. Additionally, BR sustainability and effectiveness greatly depends on the implementation of appropriate, locally-based management solutions that need a strong stakeholder's awareness, and engagement for a stable and strong governance leadership based on a strategic participation and public-private stakeholder partnerships in planning, operating resource allocation and implementation.iii DECLARATION BY AUTHORThis thesis is composed of my original work, and contains no material previously published or written by another p...

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Factors influencing successful implementation of Biosphere Reserves in Vietnam: Challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt

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Dudley

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Environmental Science & Policy

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Building capital through bioregional planning and biosphere reserves

Cited by 23 publications

References 16 publications

‘Eco-civic’ optimisation: A nested framework for planning and managing landscapes

‘Eco-civic’ optimisation: A nested framework for planning and managing landscapes

Factors influencing the management effectiveness of the biosphere reserve model: The case of Vietnam

Factors influencing successful implementation of Biosphere Reserves in Vietnam: Challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt

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