Institutional assessment in natural resource governance: A conceptual overview

Yeboah‐Assiamah, Emmanuel; Müller, Kobus; Domfeh, Kwame Ameyaw

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2016.10.006

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“…In recent decades, governance has increasingly been identified by scholars and practitioners as a lynchpin in the success of natural resource management. Indeed, recognising the widespread failures of historic 'top-down', technocratic and generally government-led management practices, in the last two decades many management groups and governments have adopted more participatory, collaborative, and polycentric governance arrangements (Bixler, 2014;Marcus & Onjala, 2008;Njaya, 2007;Robins, 2008;Yeboah-Assiamah et al, 2017). This radical shift in governance paradigms has involved significant experimentation with novel approaches to decision-making, with varying levels of success and influence on outcomes in social-ecological systems (Ison et al, 2015;McFadgen & Huitema, 2017;Mitchell et al, 2014).…”

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Disconnected dots?: A systematic review of governance challenges for natural resource management

Potts

2019

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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As concerns for the ongoing and increasing degradation of the natural environment worldwide, have increased the impetus for action, and development of governance arrangements to support natural resource management. Despite this, issues around governance remain a significant challenge to the success of natural resource management. This study reports the findings of a systematic literature review of 240 papers to better understand how governance challenges manifest spatially, how they change over time, and identify key priority areas for strategic governance reform. This paper reveals that the capacity of natural resource management governance systems internationally is most limited by factors that limit connectivity and collaboration between stakeholders in decision-making processes, and the alignment of vision and objectives across institutions. The paper shows clear spatial disparities and temporal changes in the number of studies and governance challenges of natural resource management identified in developing and developed countries.

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Disconnected dots?: A systematic review of governance challenges for natural resource management

Potts

2019

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…From a policy perspective, this suggests the need for a more differentiated appraisal of informal institutions (for example, Rohregger, 2006;Yeboah-Assiamah et al, 2017;Pfeiffer, 2011). They are an integral part of local power structures even where strong and functioning formal institutions exist.…”

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The politics of implementation: The role of traditional authorities in delivering social policies to poor people in Kenya

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Kinuthia

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Critical Social Policy

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The article contributes to understanding the political economy of implementation of social protection programmes at local level. Current debates are dominated by technocratic arguments, emphasizing the lack of financial resources, technology or skills as major barriers for effective implementation. Describing how chiefs, assistant-chiefs and community elders are routinely at the centre stage of core implementation processes, including targeting, enrolment, delivery, monitoring, awareness and information, data collection or grievance and redress, this study on Kenya argues for the need to look more closely into the local political economy as an important mediating arena for implementing social policies. Implementation is heavily contingent upon the local social, political and institutional context that influences and shapes its outcomes. These processes are ambivalent involving multiple forms of interactions between ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ institutional structures, which may support initial policy objectives or induce policy outcomes substantially diverging from intended policy objectives.

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“…The extant literature adopts an institutional approach to assess how governments adopt peculiar governance regimes (Ayana et al, 2017;Yeboah-Assiamah et al, 2017); assess the impact of actor networks in sustainable management of forests (Kathrin, 2019;Johansson, 2018;Mohammed et al, 2017). But the question which still remains inconclusively addressed in the literature is: what propels a sovereign country to incorporate non-legally binding international institutional arrangement into its own institutional and management practices?…”

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On the Question of Sustainable Forest Practices? An Assessment of Ghana’s Ratification of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement

Sarfo-Adu¹

2021

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Between 2015 and 2020, the rate of deforestation was estimated at 10 million hectares per year. Continued forest degradation raises serious socioeconomic and environmental concerns which has led to policy proposals emanating from both local and international sources. What would make a sovereign country kowtow to externally driven policy intervention? This study contributes to the literature on sustainable forest management by assessing why countries would ratify interventions that are proposed by parties external to the sovereign state. Being the first country to ratify the European Union Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), this study assesses the rationale for Ghana's ratification of the VPA. The study adopts the qualitative case study design to purposively select key respondents who play critical roles in VPA value chain in Ghana. The study observes that although the VPA and its requirements are from external sources, they nonetheless fall in line with local ongoing efforts by the Forestry Commission of Ghana. The study concludes that a policy even if originates from external source is more likely to be embraced if does not challenge but feeds into government's prevalent activities, the legitimacy of that agreement/policy and enforcement remains higher. The study argues for a convergence of local and external interventions and the development of innovative mechanisms to effectively manage forests sustainably, to improve peoples' livelihoods, and protect natural resources.

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Institutional assessment in natural resource governance: A conceptual overview

Cited by 45 publications

References 78 publications

Disconnected dots?: A systematic review of governance challenges for natural resource management

Disconnected dots?: A systematic review of governance challenges for natural resource management

The politics of implementation: The role of traditional authorities in delivering social policies to poor people in Kenya

On the Question of Sustainable Forest Practices? An Assessment of Ghana’s Ratification of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement

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