Addressing Marine and Coastal Governance Conflicts at the Interface of Multiple Sectors and Jurisdictions

Bellanger, Manuel; Speir, Cameron; Blanchard, Gérard; Brooks, Kenneth N.; Butler, James; Crosson, Scott; Fonner, Robert; Gourguet, Sophie; Holland, Daniel S.; Kuikka, Sakari; Gallic, Bertrand Le; Lent, Rebecca; Libecap, Gary D.; Lipton, Douglas W.; Nayak, Prateep Kumar; Reid, David G.; Scemama, Pierre; Stephenson, Robert L.; Thébaud, Olivier; Young, Juliette

doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.544440

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“…The CLA method was adapted from Butler et al [32], which combines the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the Centre for International Forestry Research [49] problem tree tools with systems thinking and feedback loops [33]. Butler et al's [17] process follows four steps. Step 1 identifies the direct and indirect impacts emanating "downstream" from the problem and the causal linkages between them.…”

Section: Causal Loop Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Animals 2021, 11, x 6 of 27 problem tree tools with systems thinking and feedback loops [33]. Butler et al's [17] process follows four steps.…”

Section: Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Companion animals may also negatively impact human health and wildlife conservation, for example amongst free-ranging dog populations (e.g., [12][13][14][15]). Resolution of such conflicts, whilst maintaining ethical and culturally appropriate management methods, requires stakeholder values and goals to be addressed via equitable participation, collaborative decision-making, problem identification and resolution [16,17].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Causal Loop Analysis Can Identify Solutions to Complex Dog Management Problems in Remote Australian Aboriginal Communities

Kennedy

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Butler

2021

Animals

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Companion animal management in Australian remote Aboriginal communities (rAcs) is a complex problem with multiple stakeholders involved, with differing needs, knowledge, power and resources. The Comm4Unity (Cycle of Multiple Methods for Unity—For Community) approach was designed to address such problems. This study represents the second step of the Comm4Unity framework, where a causal loop analysis (CLA) was adapted and tested as a tool to address the issue of dog overpopulation in Wurrumiyanga, and in particular the systemic causes of the problem and necessary transformational management solutions. Ten focus group discussions (FGDs) were held amongst three of the four stakeholder groups identified during the first step in the analysis. The CLA identified 13 positive feedback loops, which drive vicious cycles and perpetuate the dog overpopulation issue. All three groups agreed and developed 22 solutions to address the causes of dog overpopulation. Despite the differences in the framings of the three groups, “training” and “education” were both the top priority solutions for all three groups. The majority of the solutions discussed by the groups were not only transformational but also social, requiring collaboration. This study was successful in so far as transformational actions were co-developed by all FGDs, which may have also built capacity and agency amongst the local community to implement them as a cohesive group.

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Section: Causal Loop Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Animals 2021, 11, x 6 of 27 problem tree tools with systems thinking and feedback loops [33]. Butler et al's [17] process follows four steps.…”

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Causal Loop Analysis Can Identify Solutions to Complex Dog Management Problems in Remote Australian Aboriginal Communities

Kennedy

Brown

Butler

2021

Animals

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“…This pervasiveness of unsustainability could be surprising, because resource users rarely have "degradation of the part(s) of Nature being used" as an objective. Multiple communities may have different goals for how and how much to use shared resources, but they are at least likely to share the objective that they do not want it degraded to the point where uses, particularly their own, are not possible (Bellangier et al, 2020;Gaebel et al, 2020). There may be economic strategies and accounting approaches where "cashing out" a resource and investing the profits is a rational strategy, but even in those cases, reaching that decision and keeping the economic strategy viable requires a vision of "sustainability" shared by all those affected by that choice (Clark, 1973;Defrancesco et al, 2014).…”

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“…A cynic might focus on the multiplicity of users of most parts of Nature, so blame can always be transferred when things go bad, and no group takes accountability for its share of the problem. There is support for such a cynic's view, both from small scales, and in more multi-user settings from the investments made in processes to build shared objectives for cooperative resource use (Costanza et al, 2017;Alexander et al, 2018;Gelcich et al, 2019;Bellangier et al, 2020). However, the integrity of small, self-governing communities with a common shared culture is a weak precedent for sustainability of a diverse but globalized world.…”

Section: Roots Of Unsustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Equity – the Bottleneck and the Opportunity

Rice

2021

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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There is a widespread tendency for diverse uses of Nature, on scales from small and local to very large, to become unsustainable. Once unsustainable, bringing a use back to sustainability and keeping it sustainable then takes substantial effort and tools appropriate to the context of the use. This Perspective first asks why is the tendency for unsustainability so pervasive, when it is an outcome that no user group has adopted as an objective, and ways to keep uses sustainable are known. I argue and present evidence that the common factor underlying the pervasiveness of unsustainable uses of Nature is inequity in the distribution of the benefits created from those uses, with both the wealthy “winners” of the distributional inequities and those disadvantaged and in poverty driving uses toward increasing unsustainability in ways that depend on the nature of the inequities. Unless the inequity of distribution of benefits from uses of Nature is addressed as an issue in its own right, there are few or no pathways to medium or long-term sustainable use. However, if inequity is addressed broadly and effectively, many pathways are available and societies can select the pathways appropriate to their cultural and ecological contexts.

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Feeling the Pinch: Perceived Marginalization of Small-Scale Commercial Crab Fishers by an Expanding Recreational Sector

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Addressing Marine and Coastal Governance Conflicts at the Interface of Multiple Sectors and Jurisdictions

Cited by 27 publications

References 104 publications

Causal Loop Analysis Can Identify Solutions to Complex Dog Management Problems in Remote Australian Aboriginal Communities

Causal Loop Analysis Can Identify Solutions to Complex Dog Management Problems in Remote Australian Aboriginal Communities

Equity – the Bottleneck and the Opportunity

Feeling the Pinch: Perceived Marginalization of Small-Scale Commercial Crab Fishers by an Expanding Recreational Sector

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