Contribution from Long-Term Ecological Monitoring to research and management of Doñana LTSER Platform

Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo; Carro, Francisco; Herruzo, Francisco Quirós; Osuna, Alfonso J. García; Baena, Manuel

doi:10.7818/ecos.2016.25-1.03

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“…Currently, the management of the Guadalquivir estuary's navigable canal (Euroway E.60.02, 90 km), between the Port of Seville and the river mouth to the Atlantic Ocean, is entrusted by the State to the local Port Authority (Danubius-PP 2019). The IMAP megaproject was launched in 2000 by the Port Authority as part of its broader 2020…”

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Understanding the governance of sustainability pathways: Hydraulic megaprojects, social-ecological traps, and power in networks of action situations

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Clément²,

Salvador³

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To enable robust and just sustainability pathways, we need to understand how social-ecological systems (SES) respond to different governance configurations, considering their historical, institutional, political and power conditions. We advance a robust methodological tool for the integrated analysis of those conditions, focusing on SES traps and building on an existing case study: the Doñana region (Guadalquivir estuary, SW Spain), an estuary-delta SES. Doñana is characterized by institutional rigidity for water resources and wetland conservation governance and, more generally, by a SES rigidity trap. Here, we focus on a relatively recent hydraulic megaproject involving deep dredging in the Guadalquivir estuary, finally canceled due to its broad negative socioeconomic and environmental repercussions. Our methodological development consists of a novel combination of the politicized version of the Institutional Analysis and Development (pIAD) framework and the Networks of Action Situations (NAS) approach. Our analysis reveals a governance configuration characterized by strategic interactions among key actors posing no new large socioeconomic or environmental risks in the short term. This pattern is however vulnerable due to an underlying coordination failure and sub-optimal equilibrium situation, which emerge from a pattern of uncooperative behavior that cannot be explained without considering discourse inertia and power dynamics. Deep dredging could have led to a sudden fall of governance into a below sub-optimal equilibrium and regime shift toward a lock-in trap posing high sunk and trajectory-shifting costs. Currently, the game is on for achieving a shift to a high ‘blue equilibrium’ and launching a robust sustainability pathway through collective action.

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Section: The Imap Megaproject (2000) -The Port Awakensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the governance of sustainability pathways: Hydraulic megaprojects, social-ecological traps, and power in networks of action situations

Méndez¹,

Clément²,

Salvador³

et al. 2021

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“…Esta transferencia de conocimiento aplicado sería la única manera de justificar ante los gestores el cierto grado de alteración que inevitablemente va a conllevar nuestra presencia y manipulación de los individuos en áreas protegidas. Quizás una solución ideal pase por aunar esfuerzos y combinar los protocolos de manejo con los de los proyectos de investigación (Walters y Holling 1990;Bonache et al 2016;Díaz-Delgado et al 2016;Sánchez-Carrillo et al 2016). Esto podría suponer un beneficio mutuo.…”

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The value of long-term studies in behavioural ecology

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Avilés

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Long-Term Ecological Monitoring at the Landscape Scale for Nature Conservation: The Example of Doñana Protected Area

Dı́az-Delgado

2017

The Roles of Remote Sensing in Nature Conservation

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Contribution from Long-Term Ecological Monitoring to research and management of Doñana LTSER Platform

Abstract: Artículo publicado en Open Access bajo los términos de Creative Commons attribution Non Comercial License 3.0. MONOGRÁFICO: La investigación y seguimiento ecológico a largo plazo (LTER) ecosistemas REVISTA CIENTÍFICA DE ECOLOGÍA Y MEDIO AMBIENTE

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Understanding the governance of sustainability pathways: Hydraulic megaprojects, social-ecological traps, and power in networks of action situations

Understanding the governance of sustainability pathways: Hydraulic megaprojects, social-ecological traps, and power in networks of action situations

The value of long-term studies in behavioural ecology

Long-Term Ecological Monitoring at the Landscape Scale for Nature Conservation: The Example of Doñana Protected Area

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