Governing marine protected areas: Social–ecological resilience through institutional diversity

Jones, Peter J.S.; Qiu, Wanfei; Santo, Elizabeth M. De

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2012.12.026

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“…Among the most important questions in this context are whether, and how, PAs may contribute to desirable regional resilience (e.g., Plumptre et al 2007, Slotow and Hunter 2009, Cantu´-Salazar and Gaston 2010, Laurance 2013, Sjo¨stedt 2013; and conversely, how regional resilience may influence the resilience of individual PAs (Gonza´lez et al 2008, Jones et al 2013). …”

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Understanding protected area resilience: a multi‐scale, social‐ecological approach

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Ecological Applications

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Abstract. Protected areas (PAs) remain central to the conservation of biodiversity. Classical PAs were conceived as areas that would be set aside to maintain a natural state with minimal human influence. However, global environmental change and growing cross-scale anthropogenic influences mean that PAs can no longer be thought of as ecological islands that function independently of the broader social-ecological system in which they are located. For PAs to be resilient (and to contribute to broader social-ecological resilience), they must be able to adapt to changing social and ecological conditions over time in a way that supports the long-term persistence of populations, communities, and ecosystems of conservation concern. We extend Ostrom's social-ecological systems framework to consider the long-term persistence of PAs, as a form of land use embedded in social-ecological systems, with important crossscale feedbacks. Most notably, we highlight the cross-scale influences and feedbacks on PAs that exist from the local to the global scale, contextualizing PAs within multi-scale socialecological functional landscapes. Such functional landscapes are integral to understand and manage individual PAs for long-term sustainability. We illustrate our conceptual contribution with three case studies that highlight cross-scale feedbacks and social-ecological interactions in the functioning of PAs and in relation to regional resilience. Our analysis suggests that while ecological, economic, and social processes are often directly relevant to PAs at finer scales, at broader scales, the dominant processes that shape and alter PA resilience are primarily social and economic.

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Understanding protected area resilience: a multi‐scale, social‐ecological approach

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Ban

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“…From self-governance or bottomup (community-led and science-guided) to hierarchical or top-down approaches (governmental-led and science-based)-different modes of ocean governance at multiple system levels can combine the dynamics of authoritative, constraining, disciplining and stabilizing features on the one hand; and generative, enabling, empowering, and innovative countervailing features, on the other (Glavovic, 2013a). A compelling approach to accelerate transformation in multi-level ocean governance is the idea of co-evolutionary hierarchical governance (Jones, 2014;Chen and Ganapin, 2015). The principal idea is that ocean governance needs to be nested and simultaneously occur at multiple levels in the organizational hierarchy to reflect the fact that coastal and marine ecosystems are spatially interconnected so that issues need to be addressed at different geographical scales.…”

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“…This concept by Jones (2014) offers potential for balancing bottom-up with top-down approaches in an interconnected polycentric governance system. Moreover, it acknowledges that the previously outlined "opportunity contexts" may differ between levels in the organizational hierarchy, between places, and between phases in the coevolution of social-ecological system contexts; and that transformations commonly involve multilevel and multi-phase processes that engage diverse actors in the system they seek to transform (Westley et al, 2013).…”

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“…In our increasingly interconnected world, linkages between geographically separate ocean governance actors from various sectors (e.g., fishers, resource users and managers, tourism operators, scientists and other actors) can create shared knowledge that enhances research and communication capacities, and mobilizes decision-makers to address problems at multiple governance levels (Clark, 1998, p. 1;Creech and Willard, 2001;Cornell et al, 2013;Jones, 2014). Linkages need to develop both horizontally, between actors and institutions at the same system level, and vertically across system levels and scales, for creating knowledge networks that capacitate governance actors with access to wide-ranging sources of information and knowledge in ways that improve learning and coordination (Young et al, 2007;Newig et al, 2010).…”

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“…We link the "theory of transformative agency in linked social-ecological systems" by Westley et al (2013) to the co-evolutionary hierarchical ocean governance approach presented by Jones (2014). Section Transformative Agency to Transdisciplinary Knowledge for Achieving Transformative discusses the role of knowledge for achieving desirable transformative change in a multi-level governance context.…”

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Understanding protected area resilience: a multi‐scale, social‐ecological approach

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