Laying Down the Ladder: A Typology of Public Participation in Australian Natural Resource Management

Ross, Helen; Buchy, Marlène; Proctor, Wendy

doi:10.1080/14486563.2002.10648561

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“…The issues of sincerity or tokenism in participatory processes (Few et al 2007), of exhausting over-participation for some (Wondolleck et al 1996), of unbalanced power relationships (Arnstein 1969), and potential capture of processes by certain groups, are as pertinent in a climate adaption context as any other. As Ross et al (2002) argue, different parties may have 'agency' over an issue, and this affects the carriage and conduct of a participation process. Much of the literature on participation is written to advise a party responsible for decisions, especially government, as to how it can invite and manage participation from others -rather than working closely with "grassroots" (Few et al 2007).…”

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“…We seek however to go beyond these well-known classifications of participatory methods. We accept that more dimensions than power are important in designing participatory processes -especially agency, and duration (Ross et al 2002). The day was organised to vary the types of activity to align with aural, visual and conative learning preferences.…”

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A participatory systems approach to understanding climate adaptation needs

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Emerging literature on climate adaptation suggests the need for effective ways of engaging or activating communities and supporting community roles, coupled with whole-of-system approaches to understanding climate change and adaptation needs. We have developed and evaluated a participatory approach to elicit community and stakeholder understanding of climate change adaptation needs, and connect diverse community members and local office bearers towards potential action. The approach was trialed in a series of connected social-ecological systems along a transect from a rural area to the coast and islands of ecologically sensitive Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia. We conducted 'climate roundtables' in each of three areas along the transect, then a fourth roundtable reviewed and extended the results to the region as a whole. Influence diagrams produced through the process show how each climate variable forecast to affect this region (heat, storm, flood, sea-level rise, Climatic Change (2015) A participatory systems approach to understanding climate adaptation needs fire, drought) affects the natural environment, infrastructure, economic and social behaviour patterns, and psychosocial responses, and how sets of people, species and ecosystems are affected, and act, differentially. The participatory process proved effective as a way of building local empathy, a local knowledge base and empowering participants to join towards future climate adaptation action. Key principles are highlighted to assist in adapting the process for use elsewhere.

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“…Strengths include social engagement through emergent trust from local actors, together with learning and negotiation over dynamic ecosystem processes. This method is posited for offering a less adversarial and elitist platform that can otherwise result from traditional hierarchical governance measures (Ross et al, 2002). It can provide an effective problem solving mechanism where traditional market-based measures cannot cope with the cyclical and dynamic nature typical of ecosystems.…”

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Social learning: A knowledge and capacity building approach for adaptive co-management of contested landscapes

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“…Cooperation refers to a range of activities, from simple networking to collaboration. There is no hard and fast rule about what level is required in conservation, with it really being a matter of 'horses for courses' (Ross et al 2002).…”

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A diagnostic framework for biodiversity conservation institutions

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Biodiversity loss is a critical issue on the environmental agenda, with species based approaches failing to stem the decline. Landscape scale approaches offer promise, but require institutional change. This article describes a novel conceptual framework for 1 assessing institutional arrangements to tackle this persistent problem. In doing so, two critical issues for biodiversity governance are addressed. The first is a need to enrich largely theoretical descriptions of adaptive governance by considering how the practical realities of institutional environments (e.g. public agencies) limit achievement of an adaptive governance 'ideal'. The second is enabling explicit consideration of the unique aspects of biodiversity as a 'policy problem' in the analysis of institutional arrangements. The framework contributes to efforts to design more adaptive institutional arrangements, through supporting a more sophisticated and grounded institutional analysis incorporating insights from institutional theory, especially literature on organizational environments and public administration.Concepts from Pragmatism also contribute to this grounding, providing insight into how public agencies can play a more productive role in biodiversity conservation and building public consent for management actions. The diagnostic categories in the framework include the attributes of the biodiversity problem and the involved players; the political context; and practices contributing to both competence and capacity. Guidance on how to apply the framework and an example of its application in Australia illustrate the utility of this tool for institutional diagnosis and design.Development of this diagnostic framework could be further enhanced by empirically informed elaboration of the relationships between its components, and of the nature of and factors influencing key concerns for adaptation, particularly learning, self organizing and buffering.

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Laying Down the Ladder: A Typology of Public Participation in Australian Natural Resource Management

Cited by 99 publications

References 11 publications

A participatory systems approach to understanding climate adaptation needs

A participatory systems approach to understanding climate adaptation needs

Social learning: A knowledge and capacity building approach for adaptive co-management of contested landscapes

A diagnostic framework for biodiversity conservation institutions

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