Multi-level governance for large marine commons: Politics and polycentricity in Palau's protected area network

Evaluating the utility of common-pool resource theory for understanding forest governance and outcomes in Indonesia between 1965 and 2012

“…However, the decentralized political order has also created opportunities for many more actors at local and regional levels to pursue political and economic power through overuse of resources, and these opportunities may be driving the increase in deforestation. This could, in fact, be consistent with CPR theory: decentralization and political empowerment in Indonesia may not support improved resource governance because it has failed to empower the appropriate set of actors (Agrawal and Ribot 1999;Gruby and Basurto 2014). Decentralization has empowered district governments but not the resource users themselves, who still face serious barriers to their exercise of power (in spite of their improved position relative to the Suharto era), and it is the empowerment of resource users, not decentralization in general, which leads to improved outcomes in CPR theory (see e.g.…”

“…Ribot et al 2006;Potteete and Ribot 2011), which have observed a tendency to recentralize authority in powerful actors in these processes; and political ecology analyses of the politics of multi-level/crossscale governance, which has emphasized that the definition of what decisions are taken at which scales is a power-and conflict-laden process (e.g. Gruby and Basurto 2014;Thiel and Egerton 2011).…”

Governança ambiental em áreas de proteção da biodiversidade: uma revisão sistemática

“…Dentre os artigos que abordaram as relações entre o Estado e a sociedade/comunidades, além do estudo realizado por Dahou & Weigel (2005), discutindo o papel do Poder Público enquanto árbitro e mediador no processo de gestão de áreas protegidas junto aos demais atores envolvidos, destacaram-se o estudo de Blackstock et al (2014) "Hybridity of representation: insights from river basin management planning in Scotland", realizado na Escócia, versando sobre a elaboração de um plano de gestão de bacia hidrográfica, onde foram enfatizados os desafios da participação desses atores, motivados por interesses específicos, e o de Gruby & Basurto (2013) "Multi-level governance for large marine commons: Politics and polycentricity in Palau's protected area network", relacionado à construção de um diálogo interdisciplinar entre as partes interessadas, sob uma perspectiva de governança multinível; um estudo realizado em uma área de proteção marinha em Palau, na Micronésia.…”

Studying Power with the Social-Ecological System Framework

“…However, it is also quite vague given the diverse ways in which power has been defi ned. Although a few studies of SESs have attempted to bring power-centered and institutioncentered theories into constructive dialogue (e.g., Clement 2010 ; Gruby and Basurto 2013 ), these initial efforts refl ect a small subset of the diverse ways in which social scientists have thought about, defi ned, and studied power. Without explicit agreement on what power is, it seems unlikely that any one test of a theory that "power matters" can produce the types of evidence required to support or reject such a general hypothesis.…”