Institutions matter: the need to address the institutional challenges of ecosystem management

Cortner, Hanna J.; Wallace, Mary G.; Burke, Sabrina; Moote, Margaret A.

doi:10.1016/s0169-2046(97)00108-4

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“…Because these terms have different meanings in different contexts, we begin with a series of definitions that we will use in this paper. Cortner et al (1998) review concepts of institutions from a sociological perspective and refer to them as, "…expressions and mechanisms of collective experiences. " Such breadth in this concept of institutions captures a great many different kinds of rules, processes and organizations.…”

Section: Definitions Of Institutions Property Rights and Social Andmentioning

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Institutional vacuums in Canadian forest policy: Can criteria and indicators and certification of sustainable forest management fill the void?

Luckert¹,

Boxall²

2009

The Forestry Chronicle

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This paper discusses the potential of certification and criteria and indicators (C&I) of sustainable forest management (SFM) for filling voids in forest policy in Canada. These processes have promised advances towards SFM that the current property rights conveyed on the forest industry, through existing systems of tenures, may simply not allow. In general, the broad social welfare approach that current thinking in sustainable development supports, and that certification and criteria and indicators appear to employ, is not consistent with the incentives, rights, and responsibilities that private forestry firms currently hold. There is a fundamental mismatch between the property rights that have been conveyed to private firms operating on public forest lands and what the policy frameworks of certification and C&I are expected to deliver. The conclusion is that if the voids in forest policy are to be successfully filled by certification and C&I, the underlying property rights currently held by firms will need revision.Key words: sustainable forest management, criteria and indicators, certification, Canadian forest policy, forest tenures RÉSUMÉ Cet article discute de la possibilité d'utiliser la certification et les critères et indicateurs (C&I) de l'aménagement forestier durable (AFD) pour remplir les espaces incomplets des textes des politiques forestières au Canada. Ces processus ont permis d' enregistrer des progrès en matière d' AFD que les droits de propriété actuels accordés à l'industrie forestière par l' entremise des systèmes de tenure en place ne pouvaient tout simplement pas permettre. En général, l'approche globale de bien-être social que le courant actuel de pensée en matière de développement durable appuie et que la certification et les critères et indicateurs semblent utiliser, ne se raccorde pas aux incitatifs, aux droits et aux responsabilités que les entreprises forestières privées détiennent présentement. Il existe une divergence fondamentale entre les droits de propriétés qui ont été accordés aux entreprises privées en activité sur le territoire forestier public et ce que le cadre de référence des politiques de certification et des C&I devrait permettre. La conclusion est qu'advenant que les espaces incomplets des politiques forestières puissent être complétés avec succès par la certification et les C&I, les droits de propriété sous-jacents présentement détenus par les entreprises devront être révisés.

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Section: Definitions Of Institutions Property Rights and Social Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional vacuums in Canadian forest policy: Can criteria and indicators and certification of sustainable forest management fill the void?

Luckert¹,

Boxall²

2009

The Forestry Chronicle

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“…In practice, federal agencies have often been slow to invite the public into planning activities (Cortner et al 1998). Through habit, reluctance, or lack of understanding of the benefits, staff usually have not engaged their publics soon enough to fully incorporate citizens' ideas or to gain their trust in management decisions.…”

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“…The U.S. Forest Service, for example, was once hailed as a bureaucratic superstar, possessing a remarkable ability to sense changing public priorities and to adapt its mission to meet those demands (Clarke and McCool 1985). More recently, however, the agency has had serious credibility problems with its public image (e.g., Yaffee 1994, Cortner et al 1998), leading to a constituent disconnect at both the local and national levels.…”

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Integrating Citizens in Adaptive Management: A Propositional Analysis

Shindler¹,

Cheek²

1999

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“…In practice however, social change seems to be incredibly difficult to achieve. Nevertheless, society and its institutions may need to become more capable of substantial shifts over shorter time scales to adapt to pressures of change, including resource degradation, and adjust towards more ecologically restorative economies (Brunckhorst et al, 1997;Cortner et al, 1998;Carpenter and Gunderson, 2001;Saunders and Briggs, 2002). Such transformations might require novel approaches to find realistic solutions to social and environmental sustainability issues that the citizenry can adopt and adapt with matching civic skills and knowledge (Reeve, 1992(Reeve, , 1998Brunckhorst, 2002).…”

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“…Such transformations might require novel approaches to find realistic solutions to social and environmental sustainability issues that the citizenry can adopt and adapt with matching civic skills and knowledge (Reeve, 1992(Reeve, , 1998Brunckhorst, 2002). An increasing number of scientists and policy makers are turning their attention to ecological sustainability issues related to land use, landscape function and ecosystem services, urban infrastructure and services, regional development, policy and institutional arrangements (Forman, 1995;Omernik and Bailey, 1997;Cortner et al, 1998;Knight and Landres, 1998;Turner et al, 2001;Pickett et al, 2004;Reeve et al, in press). This timely shift might be seen as an acknowledgment of a 'regional' concept of 'biocultural appropriateness' that has long been accepted in institutional, urban and agricultural capacity building programs in the developing world (Berkes and Folke, 1998;Johnson et al, 1999;Brunckhorst, 2000).…”

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‘Eco-civic’ optimisation: A nested framework for planning and managing landscapes

Brunckhorst

Coop

Reeve

2006

Landscape and Urban Planning

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An important institution for regional resource governance is civic engagement in local affairs, including resource use issues. Local civic engagement has traditionally been structured around local government and, more recently, to catchment-based decision-making bodies. If citizens are to participate in regional resource management in ways that are meaningful to them, it is important that both the landscape units being discussed and the jurisdictional boundaries are meaningful. We have been examining how boundaries for resource management regions might be identified. Three considerations are believed to be important if regional resource management is to be meaningful to the citizens involved. Firstly, that the regional boundaries maximise the areal proportion of the region that residents consider to be part of their 'community', which should lead to greater commitment to civic engagement in resource management. Secondly, that the character of the landscape units within the region possess a high degree of homogeneity, reflecting greater coincidence of interest among the inhabitants of the region. The third consideration is a hierarchical multi-scaling capacity to deal with externalities of resource use. The approach was tested through identification of a series of nested 'eco-civic' resource management regions for north-eastern New South Wales in Australia. The results delineate resource governance regions that nest at local to regional scales for integrated natural resource management. Such 'eco-civic' regions demonstrate a better spatial representation of social and ecological characteristics than existing regional frameworks. Crown

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Institutions matter: the need to address the institutional challenges of ecosystem management

Cited by 80 publications

References 16 publications

Institutional vacuums in Canadian forest policy: Can criteria and indicators and certification of sustainable forest management fill the void?

Institutional vacuums in Canadian forest policy: Can criteria and indicators and certification of sustainable forest management fill the void?

Integrating Citizens in Adaptive Management: A Propositional Analysis

‘Eco-civic’ optimisation: A nested framework for planning and managing landscapes

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