The emergence of an environmental governance network: the case of the Arizona borderlands

Schoon, Michael; York, Abigail M.; Sullivan, Abigail; Baggio, Jacopo A.

doi:10.1007/s10113-016-1060-x

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“…Although social network analysis has recently become a popular tool for examining interorganizational relationships for effective regional environmental governance (Baird et al 2016;Ingold and Leifeld 2016;Klein et al 2016;Luthe et al 2012;McConney et al 2015;Schoon et al 2017;Varela-Ortega et al 2016), analyses of the role of interpersonal relationships in adaption to regional environment change at the individual level remain rare (Isaac and Matous 2017).…”

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An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Matouš

Todo

2018

Reg Environ Change

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Agrarian communities in different regions develop diverse coping strategies to address the environmental changes they face. In this work, we test how to stimulate farmers' social learning across diverse regions to promote informed responses to soil degradation. We invited 117 randomly selected members of 16 randomly selected Sumatran communities to three 3-day networking and training events in regions with diverse socio-environmental histories. One event was held in the respondents' remote rural district (Tanggamus), the second was held in a more densely populated region on Sumatra Island (Kalianda), and the third was held in a heavily populated region on Java Island (Garut and Ciamis). Eighteen months later, we surveyed the information-sharing networks and agricultural practices of 370 members of these communities. The participants had become popular sources of agricultural advice, but the strength of this impact depended on the region in which their networking intervention was conducted. The participants in the event on Java had become the most central members of their communities. Although all the participants received the same formal information, those who interacted with the farmers in a region with the longest history of population pressure and land degradation management were more likely to adopt the recommended practices. The participants in this intervention doubled their odds of adopting organic fertilizers compared with those who networked only with peers in their local environment. Environmental memory of coping with change can be shared between regions through social learning, which can be stimulated by simple interventions.

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An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Matouš

Todo

2018

Reg Environ Change

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“…Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a process commonly used to explore social structures and linkages [15,72,73]. SNA provides methods to quantify relations among actors and resultant network structures [74].…”

Section: Linking Social Capital Polycentrism and Social Network Anamentioning

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“…In particular, it enables greater understanding beyond the characteristics of individual actors, thereby allowing an in-depth understanding of actor positions and relations, and how these complex ties impact the network structures [74,75]. As argued by Schoon et al [72], SNA is an ideal tool to measure the relational pattern of multi-actor ties, evolution, and the emergence of environmental collaborations over time. Social network literature discusses ways in which actors and groups influence each other [15,72,73,76].…”

Section: Linking Social Capital Polycentrism and Social Network Anamentioning

confidence: 99%

Unpacking Changing Multi-Actor and Multi-Level Actor Ties in Transformative Spaces: Insights from a Degraded Landscape, Machubeni, South Africa

Falayi

Gambiza

Schoon

2020

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The loss of ecosystem services through land degradation continues to be a significant concern for policymakers and land users around the world. Facilitating collective action among various actors is regarded as imperative in halting land degradation. Despite extensive research on collective action, there have been few studies that continuously map social ties and detect network evolution as a way of enabling longitudinal analysis of transformative spaces. This paper seeks to examine the changing dynamics of multi-actor and multi-level actor ties over a period of two years in Machubeni, South Africa. To do this, we used social network analysis to detect continuities and/or discontinuities of multi-actor and multi-level actor ties over time. Overall, edge density, clustering coefficient, and reciprocity scores steadily increased over the two years despite a decline in the number of active organisations within the network. Our results demonstrate that the proportion of strong ties gradually increased over time across three governance networks. However, multi-level linkages between the local municipality and the local organisations remained weak due to a lack of trust and collaborative fatigue. While the transformative space has succeeded in enhancing collaboration and knowledge sharing between local organisations and researchers, further long-term engagement with government agencies might be necessary for promoting institutional transformations and policy outcomes, and building network resilience in complex polycentric governance systems.

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“…Connectivity of fuels and related fire hazards across the US-Mexico border makes collaborative resource management increasingly important to reduce the risk of transboundary wildfire transmission and to improve ecosystem health. 100,101 Studies were less common on the Mexico side of the border where much of the land is privately or communally (ejidos) held, and government-sponsored fire suppression and fuel management strategies often exist alongside local traditional burning practices and communal fire management. 102 Intentional fuel treatments in the Mexican borderlands are uncommon, but recently Mexican state and federal government agencies, universities, and local communities have collaborated on prescribed burns along the border, 103 with the objectives of reducing fuels, studying treatment effectiveness, and providing training on fuel management.…”

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Wildfire Risk and Hazardous Fuel Reduction Treatments Along the US-Mexico Border: A Review of the Science (1986-2019)

Laushman

Munson

Villarreal

2020

Air, Soil and Water Research

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The ecosystems along the border between the United States and Mexico are at increasing risk to wildfire due to interactions among climate, land-use, and fuel loads. A wide range of fuel treatments have been implemented to mitigate wildfire and its threats to valued resources, yet we have little information about treatment effectiveness. To fill critical knowledge gaps, we reviewed wildfire risk and fuel treatment studies that were conducted near the US-Mexico border and published in the peer-reviewed literature between 1986 and 2019. The number of studies has grown during this time in warm desert to forest ecosystems on primarily federal lands. The most common study topics included fire effects on native species, the role of invasive species and woody encroachment on wildfire risk, historical fire regimes, and remote sensing and modeling to study wildfire risk across the landscape. A majority of fuel treatment studies focused on prescribed burns, and fuel treatments collectively had mixed effects on mitigating future wildfire risk and threats to ecosystems depending on vegetation and fire characteristics. The diversity of ecosystems and land ownership along the US-Mexico border present unique challenges for understanding and managing wildfire risk, and also create opportunities for collaboration and cross-site studies to promote knowledge across broad environmental gradients.

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The emergence of an environmental governance network: the case of the Arizona borderlands

Cited by 22 publications

References 46 publications

An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Unpacking Changing Multi-Actor and Multi-Level Actor Ties in Transformative Spaces: Insights from a Degraded Landscape, Machubeni, South Africa

Wildfire Risk and Hazardous Fuel Reduction Treatments Along the US-Mexico Border: A Review of the Science (1986-2019)

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