NRM engagement between remote dryland communities and government agencies: Success factors from Australia

Measham, Thomas G.; Brake, Lynn; Robinson, Catherine J.; Larson, Silva; Richards, Carol; Smith, Tim

doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2011.04.018

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“…However, we also think that a significant part of the reason that sustainable practices are not adopted by graziers is that policies and practices are typically founded on addressing the ''average'' or ''typical'' resource user and do not appreciate the extent of diversity among grazier populations. Implementing resource-protection strategies without sufficient knowledge of the capacity of people to cope and adapt to them may impose levels of stress upon individuals and communities to such an extent that their ability to adapt, tolerate, or prosper under a new system is compromised (Measham et al 2011a). Such strategies are also likely to result in poor compliance, and the natural resource may remain unprotected (Sutinen and Kuperan 1999).…”

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Understanding Variability in Adaptive Capacity on Rangelands

Marshall

Smajgl

2013

Rangeland Ecology & Management

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The art and science of developing effective policies and practices to enhance sustainability and adapt to new climate conditions on rangelands and savannas are typically founded on addressing the ''average'' or ''typical'' resource user. However, this assumption is flawed since it does not appreciate the extent of diversity among resource users; it risks that strategies will be irrelevant for many people and ignored, and that the grazing resource itself will remain unprotected. Understanding social heterogeneity is vital for effective natural resource management. Our aim was to understand the extent to which graziers in the northern Australian rangelands varied in their capacity to adapt to climate variability and recommended practices. Adaptive capacity was assessed according to four dimensions: 1) the perception of risk, 2) skills in planning, learning and reorganising, 3) financial and emotional flexibility, and 4) interest in adapting. We conducted 100 face-to-face interviews with graziers in their homes obtaining a 97% response rate. Of the 16 possible combinations that the four dimensions represent, we observed that all combinations were present in the Burdekin. Any single initiative to address grazing land management practices in the region is unlikely to address the needs of all graziers. Rather, policies could be tailored to type-specific needs based on adaptive capacity. Efforts to shift graziers from very low, low, or moderate levels of adaptive capacity are urgently needed. We suggest some strategies.

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Understanding Variability in Adaptive Capacity on Rangelands

Marshall

Smajgl

2013

Rangeland Ecology & Management

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“…Individual champions are recognized in several fields, particularly in organizational management (e.g., Howell et al, 2005;Taylor et al, 2011), but also in health (Harrison and Mort, 1998;Hendy and Barlow, 2012), environment and natural resource management (Taylor, 2008;Gattiker and Charter, 2010;Markusson, 2010;Reid et al, 2010;Measham et al, 2011;Taylor et al, 2012;Miles, 2013;Lindsay et al, 2019), energy (Axon et al, 2018;Martiskainen and Kivimaa, 2018), community development (Johnstone and Campbell-Jones, 2003;Vail, 2007;Worthy et al, 2016), and among not-for-profit organizations (Chapman et al, 2010).…”

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“…There is less, but growing, recognition in the literature of personal champions in fields closely related to ES, i.e., community, agriculture or environmental management contexts (Markusson, 2010). Most of the literature describes champions as emergent and self-organizing (e.g., Measham et al, 2011;Cockburn et al, 2019). Nevertheless in some instances interested individuals are recruited and their skills are developed under program interventions (Le Goff et al, 2021).…”

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“…The activities of local champions can complement policy and program intervention strategies supporting ES in numerous ways. Since champions have made themselves important actors within communities, and more broadly, on certain causes, working with them can help to introduce new program interventions into new areas (Measham et al, 2011). Working with, rather than ignoring, their experientially tested strategies can help customize a program for local circumstances and give it momentum.…”

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Community champions of ecosystem services: The role of local agency in protecting Indonesian coral reefs

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Adhuri²,

Ross

et al. 2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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The importance of communities is well recognized in the protection and enhancement of ecosystem services (ES), yet the influences of individuals within and on communities are often overlooked. Individual and community agency are pertinent in small-scale fisheries, given that livelihoods of many millions of these fishers worldwide depend on ES derived from coral reefs and seagrass beds. In eastern Indonesia the rapid spread of destructive fishing practices has serious impacts on these marine and coastal ecosystems. Policy is complex, with three levels of government involved, and communities also seeking to apply customary marine management and fishing rules. Effective deterrence and enforcement prove difficult for both communities and government, especially in remote places. Community-based marine protected areas, and government or aid-led educational programs, are attempted, but are insufficient against the pressures of well-organized illegal fishing supply chains. On Selayar Island, in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia, certain local “champions,” fishers and others exerting influence within their communities, and “island champions (IC),” individuals working at island level from local government and non-government roles, are developing their own—often unorthodox—strategies to mobilize social change to protect ES. Through in-depth interviews supported by participant observation we investigated how these individuals become motivated, and how they operate to protect local ecosystems such as coral reefs and seagrass meadows. We document what inspired them, what strategies they follow, their observations on barriers, and their key messages for others. Understanding these very unofficial, individual and small-group processes that occur outside conventional policy-making and ecosystem governance can allow sharing of effective strategies to encourage potential champions elsewhere, and support community agency in protecting marine ES.

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Using Technology to Engage the Public in Biomedical Sciences

Taylor

Wessels

2019

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

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NRM engagement between remote dryland communities and government agencies: Success factors from Australia

Cited by 9 publications

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Understanding Variability in Adaptive Capacity on Rangelands

Understanding Variability in Adaptive Capacity on Rangelands

Community champions of ecosystem services: The role of local agency in protecting Indonesian coral reefs

Using Technology to Engage the Public in Biomedical Sciences

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