Theorizing the Social Structural Foundations of Adaptation and Transformation in Social-Ecological Systems

Barnes, Michelle L.; Bodin, Örjan; McAllister, Ryan R. J.; Guerrero, Angela M.; Robins, Garry; Alexander, Steven M.

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“…Trust and social cohesion within communities (referred to as bonding social capital) can play a key role in whether or not people will support each other in times of crisis, or agree on coordinated action to confront climate-induced threats 54 and strengthening of networks across scales (e.g. community, provincial, and national) 65 ; 2) community currency, or time banking systems, where individuals are incentivised to volunteer 66 .…”

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“…The third frontier involves better understanding key linkages and feedbacks to inform improved adaptation outcomes 33,54 . These linkages and feedbacks occur between scales, between domains of adaptive capacity, and between social and ecological dynamics.…”

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“…For example, when climate change impacts are so severe that people must change livelihoods, bridging connections can provide crucial information about new job opportunities57 . Likewise, linking social capital can provide access to novel sources of information and resources, and give people a voice in adaptation planning and policy occurring at higher levels54 . Bridging and linking social capital can be fostered by creating shared values and interpretation of experience through dialogue and engagement, through reducing disparities in income and wealth, and by enabling a sense of involvement in working towards collective goals 58 .…”

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“…Public policy sectors have a role in questions of transformative governance of (and for) adaptation, because adaptation incentives and adaptive capacity building are largely affected by resources, regulations and policies decided at various levels of government (Engle & Lemos, ; Lebel, Nikitina, Kotov, & Manuta, ; Pelling & High, , p. 1). Theories informing the concept of transformative governance suggest there are several capacities that policy sectors will require to enable it: reflexive learning; decision‐making under conditions of uncertainty; inclusion of multiple, diverse and sometimes incommensurate knowledge and goals; and experimentation (Barnes et al, ; Chaffin et al, ; Kemp & Loorbach, ; Park et al, ; Stirling, ; Termeer et al, ). While adaptation scholarship has studied learning, adaptive capacities, and experimentation in public policy, most of these studies treat these and other governance challenges as formal institutional issues related to factors such as resourcing, policy language, legislation, programs, “mainstreaming” and formal governance arrangements.…”

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A discursive–institutional perspective on transformative governance: A case from a fire management policy sector

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2018

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Scholarship around questions of climate change adaptation is increasingly concerned with ideas of transformative adaptation and its governance through critical re‐evaluation of beliefs, values and associated institutions. For public policy sectors, the concept of transformative governance brings attention to their capacities for supporting and engaging in such governance. While much adaptation research and practice informs technical and structural understandings of these capacities (e.g., governance arrangements, learning systems and adaptation planning), most of this research (and practice) has ignored less formal, yet equally important dimensions of public administration and governance. Institutional scholarship highlights that dominant norms, beliefs, and philosophical ideas underpin how policy sectors structure their policy responses and engagement in governance. Discursive Institutionalism suggests that examining a sector's dominant discourse can provide insights into these “institutional logics”. This paper therefore argues that understanding a policy sector's institutional logics is a crucial part of working toward enabling transformative governance of adaptation. This argument is developed through a case study of the institutional logics operating in the fire management policy sector of Victoria, Australia, and the potential influence of these logics on that sector's capacities to engage in transformative governance. Findings suggest this sector's institutional logics may currently constrain its capacities to engage in transformative governance and highlight the need for greater attention to socioinstitutional dimensions of public administration to help catalyze transformative governance of (and for) adaptation.

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“…The main obstacles for effective collaborations for the multifunctional management of the grasslands identified by the farmers are limited financial incentives, lack of market for their products, absence of consultants, and lack of follow-up considering the effectiveness of the measures in protecting the high-value biodiversity. This research avenue significantly contributes to the consolidation of using social network analysis for understanding multifunctional landscape governance worldwide (Barnes et al, 2017). Consequently, our results provide a solid base for further applications of social science in ecology and conservation biology and will identify key milestones for understanding the evolution of coupled social-ecological systems (Bodin et al, 2019).…”

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Governance networks around grasslands with contrasting management history

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2Romanian grasslands have high nature value, being between the best biodiversity hotspots at the 1 3 global level. Current agri-environment measures of the European Union Common Agricultural 1 4 Policy (CAP) contradicts the Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 objective by hindering coordinated 1 5 grassland governance and collaboration among the involved actors. At the European level, few 1 6 attempts have been made in creating conceptual strategies for implementing conservation 1 7 measures in a multi-actor and multi-scale governance setting. Our paper focuses on a 1 8 comparative network analysis of grassland landscape governance of three Romanian regions 1 9 (Iron Gates Natural Park -SW; Sighisoara -Tarnava Mare -center; and Dobrogea -SE), 2 0representatives for grassland management in mountain and lowland settings. In Sighisoara, 2 1 2 grasslands governance has been centralized but biodiversity-friendly, while in Iron Gates, 2 2 grasslands were traditionally managed through a decentralized, community-level system, and this 2 3 type of governance continues to date. Whereas for Dobrogea's grasslands, the governance was 2 4 performed in an intensive, centralized state-run management regime during the communist time 2 5and by large landowners after the transition period ended. Our findings illustrate the structure of 2 6 the three governance networks and dissimilar patterns of collaboration, indicating distinct 2 7 particularities to be considered when exploring barriers to and options for successful governance 2 8 in traditionally managed grasslands in the context of CAP measures-driven management.

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Theorizing the Social Structural Foundations of Adaptation and Transformation in Social-Ecological Systems

Cited by 32 publications

References 75 publications

Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities

Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities

A discursive–institutional perspective on transformative governance: A case from a fire management policy sector

Governance networks around grasslands with contrasting management history

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