The network structure of multilevel water resources governance in Central America

Hileman, Jacob; Lubell, Mark

doi:10.5751/es-10282-230248

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“…Our propositions in Table 1 are consequently expressed as such building blocks. ERGM models have been extensively used for evaluating networks in different cases and contexts (Berardo & Lubell, 2016; Bodin & Nohrstedt, 2016; Hamilton et al., 2019; Hileman & Lubell, 2018; Pittman & Armitage, 2017).…”

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Policy issue interdependency and the formation of collaborative networks

2020

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Environmental problems often span a set of challenges that each may engage different policy actors across different policy domains. These challenges, or policy issues, nonetheless exhibit interdependencies that may constrain the ability of actors to work together towards joint solutions. Still, we have limited knowledge about whether and how policy issue interdependencies actually shape how actors collaborate. Using data derived from two venues for collaborative water governance in the Norrström basin, Sweden, we investigate whether and how policy issues and policy issue interdependencies influence actors' selection of collaborative partners. We test two alternative sets of propositions; one set assumes that partner selection is driven by actors' engagement in policy issues and their interdependencies, while the other set emphasises social positions and actor attributes. Our results show that in one venue, actors' choices of collaborative partner were associated with factors from both sets, but not with policy issue interdependencies specifically. In the other venue, only actor and relational attributes shaped social tie formation. These results suggest that how actors interact does not necessarily align with the policy issues and the policy issue interdependencies defined by the environmental problem they are to address. Our results provide an important step towards arriving at evidence‐based recommendations for more effective collaborative efforts in addressing complex environmental problems that no actor can address alone. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

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Policy issue interdependency and the formation of collaborative networks

2020

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“…Resource distribution is required to establish the distributional fairness of the system, which is ultimately linked to legitimacy, institutional stability, and collaborative behavior (Berardo, 2013;Leach & Sabatier, 2005;Lubell, 2003). Within polycentric governance systems, different institutional or network structures may enable different governance goals (Hileman & Lubell, 2018;Levy & Lubell, 2018), but the relationships may be far from linear, and dependent on the trade-offs among those goals (Hamilton & Lubell, 2018). For instance, is learning more or less likely when bridging structures in an ecology of games operate in a context where the distribution of benefits that arise from cooperation are largely unequal?…”

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The Ecology of Games as a Theory of Polycentricity: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

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2019

Policy Studies Journal

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The Ecology of Games approach to examining complex governance systems in democratic societies has been recently refurbished to infuse renewed vitality in the analysis of institutions and collective action in polycentric governance systems. This opening article to the special issue on the Ecology of Games Theory (EGT) will discuss the main component elements of the theory, as well as recently produced empirical advances that test and extend it. The article is structured in three sections. The first section describes the EGT as a theory of polycentricity and explains why it is critical to study both the structure and function of polycentric governance systems, including collaboration among policy stakeholders, learning about problems, and equitably distributing the resources generated by policy interactions. The second section reviews empirical evidence that examine structure and function in polycentric systems, including their coevolution. Finally, the third section will provide insights on future research needs to strengthen this newly developed theory of polycentricity.

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“…However, we excluded all actors with only one partner, in order to focus on the core structures at the heart of the business ecosystem network. Previous research has demonstrated core network structures tend not to vary substantially across different data collection methods [ 62 ], and preserve the dominant features of the overall network [ 47 ]. After removing these actors, the business ecosystem comprises 455 actors and 1,455 collaborative ties ( Fig 2b ).…”

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Keystone actors do not act alone: A business ecosystem perspective on sustainability in the global clothing industry

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Global industries are typically dominated by a few disproportionately large and influential transnational corporations, or keystone actors. While concentration of economic production is not a new phenomenon, in an increasingly interconnected and globalized world, the scale of the impacts of keystone actors on diverse social-ecological systems continues to grow. In this article, we investigate how keystone actors in the global clothing industry engage in collaboration with a variety of other organizations to address nine interrelated biophysical and socioeconomic sustainability challenges. We expand on previous theoretical and empirical research by focusing on the larger business ecosystem in which keystone actors are embedded, and use network analysis to assess the contributions of different actor types to the architecture of the ecosystem. This systemic approach to the study of keystone actors and sustainability challenges highlights an important source of influence largely not addressed in previous research: the presence of organizations that occupy strategic positions around keystone actors. Such knowledge can help identify governance strategies for advancing industry-wide transformation towards sustainability.

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The network structure of multilevel water resources governance in Central America

Cited by 33 publications

References 65 publications

Policy issue interdependency and the formation of collaborative networks

Policy issue interdependency and the formation of collaborative networks

The Ecology of Games as a Theory of Polycentricity: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

Keystone actors do not act alone: A business ecosystem perspective on sustainability in the global clothing industry

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