Evaluating Governance Arrangements and Decision Making for Natural Resource Management Planning: An Empirical Application of the Governance Systems Analysis Framework

Potts, Ruth; Vella, Karen; Dale, Allan; Sipe, Neil

doi:10.1080/08941920.2016.1185557

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“…The Recovery Plan for Marine Turtles in Australia 2017 (Commonwealth of Australia, 2017a) met the legal requirements under the EPBC Act 1999 for stakeholder consultation for a recovery plan. Additionally, at large scale scales, there is often little information sharing between different stakeholder agencies and governance bodies end up operating independently of one another (Dale, Vella, & Potts, 2013;Potts, Vella, Dale, & Sipe, 2016;Weiss, Hamann, Kinney, & Marsh, 2012). However, even if previous versions of the recovery plan successfully engaged stakeholders, ongoing engagement is critical.…”

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“…Some community groups or nongovernment stakeholder agencies do not understand the intricacies of engaging in the policy process (including the limitations of specific legislation), making it difficult for some groups to participate effectively in management actions. Additionally, at large scale scales, there is often little information sharing between different stakeholder agencies and governance bodies end up operating independently of one another (Dale, Vella, & Potts, 2013;Potts, Vella, Dale, & Sipe, 2016;Weiss, Hamann, Kinney, & Marsh, 2012). As such, stakeholder agencies may not know what other stakeholder agencies in the governance system to implement management strategies.…”

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A framework for improving the cross‐jurisdictional governance of a marine migratory species

Miller

Marsh

Benham

et al. 2019

Conservat Sci and Prac

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Marine migratory species require collaborative decision-making because individuals move across jurisdictional boundaries within and between countries. However, governance of these species is not always harmonized or truly collaborative. We analyzed the Recovery Plan for Marine Turtles in Australia 2017 (the Plan) and three of its subsidiary plans for evidence of collaborative governance using a twopart gap analysis and interviews with environmental managers, scientists, and other stakeholders involved in the development of the Plan and in managing marine migratory species in Australia more generally. We applied existing adaptive and collaborative governance frameworks, which focused mainly on the social components of collaborative governance, and identified a need for a new, interdisciplinary framework for the collaborative governance of marine turtles in Australia. We applied our new framework to the Plan and identified that while the biological components of the Plan were well-developed, stakeholder analysis and engagement details were largely missing. We recognize that recovery plans are inevitably silent about certain issues but suggest that plans would benefit from including better guidance on stakeholder engagement and analysis. Our framework is directly relevant to harmonizing the management of marine turtles across jurisdictions in Australia but it could also be applied to managing threats towards other migratory species that inhabit large marine jurisdictions. K E Y W O R D Scollaborative governance, cross-jurisdictional governance, marine migratory species, threatened species management

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A framework for improving the cross‐jurisdictional governance of a marine migratory species

Miller

Marsh

Benham

et al. 2019

Conservat Sci and Prac

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“…A number of assessment frameworks appear in the governance literature to analyse governance systems (Ostrom 2005;Lockwood 2009;Borrini-Feyerabend and Hill 2015;Potts et al 2016;Clement, Moore, and Lockwood 2016;Wyborn 2015). Some are used more often (Ostrom 2005).…”

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Governance assessment of a protected area: the case of the Alde Feanen National Park

Lordkipanidze

Bressers

Lulofs

2018

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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This paper addresses the challenge of appropriate governance of complexity and diversity in the Dutch national park of Alde Feanen. The issue is how to enhance ecosystem resilience. Our focus relates to a navigable waterway within the park that affects the natural values of the area. The governance assessment tool is used to assess the governance context of the waterway and ecosystem resilience in the area. The study shows that a lack of a long-term integrated vision makes the governance context less supportive. Such a vision could maximize the focus on the resilience of the park's nature and motivate actors to work towards a common future for a concerned area. However, institutional complexity, combined with institutional inertia, is revealed as a hindrance to the quality of governance and shapes a weak ability to adapt the current situation to move towards resilience.

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“…Importantly, institutions are not static inert features of a system (Kepe and Scoones 1999, Adger 2000 [15,16]). Rather, institutions evolve, adapt and respond to context-specific internal and external drivers of change (Ostrom et al, 1999, Kepe and Scoones 1999, Potts et al, 2016).…”

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Chiefs in a Democracy: A Case Study of the ‘New’ Systems of Regulating Firewood Harvesting in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Findlay

Twine

2018

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Much of the international commons literature reveals a decreased functioning of local traditional institutions that regulate natural resource harvesting. In South Africa, it is believed that the creation of new democratic structures at the end of Apartheid has contributed significantly to the deterioration in traditional resource regulation and this in turn has led to the extensive resource degradation seen in parts of the country. Many of these assertions, though, remain anecdotal in nature. Given the high reliance by rural households on natural resources, and the serious negative implications that over-use has on livelihood security, understanding how well or poorly such commons are regulated is key to ensuring the sustainability of such resource-dependent populations. The aim of this study was therefore to examine systems of resource governance, focusing specifically on firewood, and to determine the roles of traditional and democratically elected community leaders in six rural villages spanning two chieftaincies in Bushbuckridge, South Africa. In each study village, five local leaders were interviewed and five community focus groups were conducted. Results indicate that most parties still regard the Chief as the ultimate authority for regulating firewood harvesting. However, overall firewood management appears weak, at best, across the region. Although some authors attribute this to community confusion over the roles of local leaders in a new democracy, we provide evidence that other socio-political factors, including political expediency, may be driving the increasingly relaxed implementation of these firewood management systems. With resource dependence remaining a vital contributor to livelihood security across the developing world and with many rural communities facing increasing strain under local resource depletion, these findings shed new light on the complex social dynamics underlying the widely reported weakening of traditional institutions in South Africa. In so doing, it offers insights into local firewood governance that can be used to combat these challenges and thereby reduce regional social and ecological vulnerability being experienced in communal landscapes across the region.

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Evaluating Governance Arrangements and Decision Making for Natural Resource Management Planning: An Empirical Application of the Governance Systems Analysis Framework

Cited by 22 publications

References 37 publications

A framework for improving the cross‐jurisdictional governance of a marine migratory species

A framework for improving the cross‐jurisdictional governance of a marine migratory species

Governance assessment of a protected area: the case of the Alde Feanen National Park

Chiefs in a Democracy: A Case Study of the ‘New’ Systems of Regulating Firewood Harvesting in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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