What is a river basin? Assessing and understanding the sociocultural mental constructs of landscapes from different stakeholders across a river basin

Garau, Enrica; Torralba, Mario; Pueyo‐Ros, Josep

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104192

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“…This concept leads to the development of targets for inputs (like flow volumes) and outputs (like fish production or salt loads) when it comes to environmental flow management. According to Garau et al (2021), this oversimplified model might not be able to adequately explain why various basins respond differently to similar management approaches.…”

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Land use-land cover changes and river basin degradation: A case study of the Densu River in Ghana

Lord,

Seth,

Kwaku

2024

J. Geogr. Reg. Plann.

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Land use-land cover (LULC) changes over time trigger local climatic and geological changes. Recent earth tremors around the Densu River Basin (DRB) in Weija near Accra Ghana, provided the motivation for this study. Using Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 OLI/TIRS imageries, this paper maps the various LULC change trends in the basin over 20 years (2003-2023) and discusses the impact on the Densu River basin. Land cover changes identified include shrinking water bodies, farmlands, and closed forests. These changes were linked to human encroachment through both direct and indirect means. The paper concludes with a discussion of policy implications and lessons for land use planning and river basin management.

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Land use-land cover changes and river basin degradation: A case study of the Densu River in Ghana

Lord,

Seth,

Kwaku

2024

J. Geogr. Reg. Plann.

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“…For rivers to be able to continue providing these services, it is vital that the management of rivers accounts for the diverse drivers and enabling factors that are required for holistic management. In recent times, the social benefits of rivers are increasingly being acknowledged, which have been leveraged to restore the ecological integrity of rivers in places where there is a need (Garau, Torralba, and Pueyo-Ros 2021). As Everard and Moggridge (2012) point out, this comes from the premise that in addition to the ecological aspects, effective river management provides various co-benefits such as public health, economic value, quality of life, regional regeneration, and disaster risk reduction.…”

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Sociocultural Dimensions in Water Resources Management

2024

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The views in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), its Advisory Council, ADB's Board or Governors, or the governments of ADB members.ADBI does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this publication and accepts no responsibility for any consequence of their use. ADBI uses proper ADB member names and abbreviations throughout and any variation or inaccuracy, including in citations and references, should be read as referring to the correct name.By making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area, or by using the term "recognize," "country," or other geographical names in this publication, ADBI does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area.Users are restricted from reselling, redistributing, or creating derivative works without the express, written consent of ADBI.

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“…Individual perceptions, prior knowledge, and value systems of local users influence their comprehension of the technical concepts involved in governance decisions (Eaton et al 2021). These differing perceptions and levels of comprehension create different expectations of the process and outcomes of a resource management regime and can affect participation in policy and implementation processes (Garau et al 2021). In short, we know that participation may shape governance system preferences and success of a resource management regime, but we lack an understanding of how the social-ecological context of a common-pool resource and individual user attributes interact to influence participation and policy support.…”

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Individual and collective political efficacy predict farmer engagement and support for groundwater policies: implications from the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act

Niles,

Hammond Wagner,

Aristizábal

et al. 2024

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Common-pool resource theory suggests that the direct participation of local natural resource users in the management of common-pool resources can lead to effective management regimes. Nevertheless, the drivers of participation in common-pool resource management, including policy decision processes, and the effects of participation on stakeholder attitudes and policy preferences are relatively understudied. Here, we combine the social-ecological system (SES) framework with the political science concept of political efficacy to examine both contextual and personal drivers of farmer participation in California, USA's 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), as well as the effect of participation on support for policy mechanisms from the SGMA. We surveyed a total of 553 farmers in three counties across the California Central Valley and Central Coast. Overall, we find that < 50% of the farmers surveyed have participated in any SGMA-related events, with attending a meeting being the most common (45%), and testifying before a board being the least common (6%). Participation in any type of SGMA policy event was associated with multiple characteristics of the groundwater SES context, including the resource system (farm size) and actor attributes (farm bureau membership and receiving information about the policy), that likely combine to indicate a higher level of social, financial, and built capital. Higher participation was also associated with higher internal efficacy ratings, i.e., an individual's self-assessment of their ability to understand and participate in the political process. Higher levels of internal efficacy were also correlated with support for both incentive-and regulatory-based policy mechanisms, as well as the perception that groundwater impacts are occurring now or soon, and exclusive reliance on groundwater. These results demonstrate that political competence and experience with policy processes and programs are not only associated with participation in current policy issues, which is widely recognized in existing research, but are also associated with policy mechanisms, in particular, with potentially more costly regulatory-based mechanisms.

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What is a river basin? Assessing and understanding the sociocultural mental constructs of landscapes from different stakeholders across a river basin

Cited by 20 publications

References 38 publications

Land use-land cover changes and river basin degradation: A case study of the Densu River in Ghana

Land use-land cover changes and river basin degradation: A case study of the Densu River in Ghana

Sociocultural Dimensions in Water Resources Management

Individual and collective political efficacy predict farmer engagement and support for groundwater policies: implications from the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act

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