Consensus Building or Constructive Conflict? Aboriginal Discursive Strategies to Enhance Participation in Natural Resource Management in Australia and Canada

Maclean, Kirsten; Robinson, Catherine J.; Natcher, David

doi:10.1080/08941920.2014.928396

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“…As such contestation and conflict can be considered as a positive part of decision-making, whereby different stakeholders use a variety of mechanisms to voice their management concerns (Maclean et al 2015).…”

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Balancing collaboration with coordination: Contesting eradication in the Australian plant pest and disease biosecurity system

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Abstract:The logistical challenge of coordinating natural resource management actions across large scales is typically complicated by the diversity of stakeholders' interests. Devising a plan is difficult. Getting diverse stakeholders to agree to and adhere to any logistical solution is harder still. Hence logistical solutions to large-scale problems involve a combination of coordination, and trust-building and contestation which are two key features of collaboration. We studied networks based on stakeholder participation in institutional responses to agricultural pest and disease incursions, where the spatial complexity of response is further challenged by the need to design and implement plans quickly in order to stop Balancing collaboration with coordination 331 the spread of incursions. Using data from the 2010 Australian myrtle rust incursion, we used novel statistical network methods which showed that policy forums at national scales, where higher-level decisions are made, were associated with denser overlapping stakeholder interactions signifying collaboration (bondingcapital, high transaction-costs). Our qualitative data unpacked this, showing how at times uncertainty in process and information is used by some stakeholders to contest decisions at national scales. We failed to find statistical evidence that at local scales, where plans are implemented more-or-less at face value, networks exhibited lower-transaction cost interactions associated with the socially cheaper task of coordination (bridging-capital, low transaction-costs). By identifying the mix of coordination and collaboration in networks for solving environmental problems, capacity building can be more targeted, and rules-of-behaviour can be developed that better fit the requirements of the diverse tasks involved.

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“…Positive environmental and social outcomes from these research activities have been reported [20,23,27,28]; a major finding has been that citizen engagement is critical for social learning and has changed behaviour of individual land managers within the landscape. Many citizens now actively value the biodiversity on their properties and actively manage their own land for wildlife.…”

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The Role of Citizen Science in Landscape and Seascape Approaches to Integrating Conservation and Development

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Initiatives to manage landscapes for both biodiversity protection and sustainable development commonly employ participatory methods to exploit the knowledge of citizens. We review five examples of citizen groups engaging with landscape scale conservation initiatives to contribute their knowledge, collect data for monitoring programs, study systems to detect patterns, and test hypotheses on aspects of landscape dynamics. Three are from landscape interventions that deliberately target biodiversity conservation and aim to have sustainable development as a collateral outcome. The other two are driven primarily by concerns for agricultural sustainability with biodiversity conservation as a collateral outcome. All five include programs in which, management agencies support data collection by citizen groups to monitor landscape changes. Situations where citizen groups self-organise to collect data and interpret data to aid in landscape scale decision making are OPEN ACCESSLand 2015, 4 1201 less common and are restricted to landscapes where the inhabitants have a high level of scientific literacy. Given the complexity of landscape processes and the multiple decision makers who influence landscape outcomes we argue that citizen science broadly defined should be an essential element of landscape scale initiatives. Conservation managers should create space for citizen engagement in science and should empower citizen groups to experiment, learn, and adapt their decision-making to improve landscape scale outcomes.

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“…Sub-disciplines from ecology have also added to the debate by highlighting the potential and challenges of collaborative approaches to natural resource management including forestry and fisheries (e.g. Maclean et al, 2015;Pinkerton, 1989).…”

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“…This includes the role of collaboration to reconcile the relationships between Indigenous peoples and Europeans, including rights to territory, its uses and derived resources (e.g. Hill et al, 2012;Lane and Hibbard, 2005;Maclean et al, 2015;Robinson and Lane, 2013;Ross et al, 2009). Intellectual frameworks from planning, geography, resilience, sociology, public policy and economics have also been used to critically examine national and regional policy attempts to refashion collaborative governance as a means of reinvigorating democracy, improving the fidelity and efficacy of government and achieving diverse and complex environmental policy goals (e.g.…”

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Introduction: the challenges of collaboration in environmental governance

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The Challenges of Collaboration in Environmental Governance

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Consensus Building or Constructive Conflict? Aboriginal Discursive Strategies to Enhance Participation in Natural Resource Management in Australia and Canada

Cited by 49 publications

References 30 publications

Balancing collaboration with coordination: Contesting eradication in the Australian plant pest and disease biosecurity system

Balancing collaboration with coordination: Contesting eradication in the Australian plant pest and disease biosecurity system

The Role of Citizen Science in Landscape and Seascape Approaches to Integrating Conservation and Development

Introduction: the challenges of collaboration in environmental governance

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