Challenges for local adaptation when governance scales overlap. Evidence from Languedoc, France

Therville, Clara; Brady, Ute; Barreteau, Olivier; Bousquet, François; Mathevet, Raphaël; Dhénain, Sandrine; Grelot, Frédéric; Brémond, Pauline

doi:10.1007/s10113-018-1427-2

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“…While it has been used for comparative and qualitative analysis (e.g., refs. [17][18][19][20] and to assist the development of models for specific systems (e.g., ref. 21), it has not yet been used to develop more generic models that synthesize understanding from many cases and extract general principles in the same spirit of empirical regularities, such as Ostrom's institutional design principles (2,22).…”

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The emergence and resilience of self-organized governance in coupled infrastructure systems

Muneepeerakul

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2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Studies of small-scale, self-organized social-ecological systems have contributed to our understanding of successful governance of shared resources. However, the lack of formal analytically tractable models of such coupled infrastructure systems makes it difficult to connect this understanding to such concepts as stability, robustness, and resilience, which are increasingly important in considering such systems. In this paper, we mathematically operationalize a widely used conceptual framework via a stylized dynamical model. The model yields a wide range of system outcomes: sustainability or collapse, infrastructure at full or partial capacity, and social agents seeking outside opportunities or exclusively engaging in the system. The low dimensionality of the model enables us to derive these conditions in clear relationships of biophysical and social factors describing the coupled system. Analysis of the model further reveals regime shifts, trade-offs, and potential pitfalls that one may face in governing these self-organized systems. The intuition and insights derived from the model lay ground for more rigorous treatment of robustness and resilience of self-organized coupled infrastructure systems, which can lead to more effective governance.

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The emergence and resilience of self-organized governance in coupled infrastructure systems

Muneepeerakul

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2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Extensive fieldwork with semidirected interviews and public documentation analysis was conducted in these case studies. More information is available in reports and field based papers (Brown et al 2017, Guerbois et al 2019, Naylor et al 2019, Therville et al 2019. We use this set of case studies to identify example cases of each theoretical type of transfer of vulnerability.…”

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Transfers of vulnerability through adaptation plan implementation: an analysis based on networks of feedback control loops

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With the increasing number of adaptation plans being generated across the world at multiple scales and levels of organization, the issue of coordination among plans is emerging as a significant challenge. We focus on how lack of coordination may constrain their efficiency as a result of potential transfers of vulnerability. This paper focuses on interdependencies between autonomous feedback control loops that represent adaptation processes and makes the link between autonomous action and (social-ecological) system levels. These interdependencies allow changes in vulnerability of one adaptation actor as a consequence of the reduction of vulnerability of another actor. We refer to the processes behind such changes as "vulnerability transfers" and suggest the need for their identification so that actors may make agreements to address them explicitly. A thorough analysis of each step involved in a feedback control loop enables the identification of potential interdependencies, leading to seven basic types of vulnerability transfer. The analysis of example cases of observed transfers of vulnerability in three coastal case studies then demonstrate the suitability of feedback control loop networks to assess, ex-ante, potential vulnerability transfers. The example cases feature all types of theoretically possible vulnerability transfers. Initial empirical investigation showcases the relative importance of shared infrastructures in generating transfers of vulnerability. It also helps to reveal forgotten links to avoid decreasing efficiency of adaptation processes beyond each autonomous agent's jurisdiction. Our representation contributes to a more comprehensive ex-ante identification of transfers and hence the possibility to discuss and manage them.

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“…This Special Issue contains five papers. Three of them are examples of analysis of coastal SES using the Robustness Framework (Guerbois et al 2019;Naylor et al 2019;Therville et al 2018). The fourth is an example of using the Robustness Framework to design a tool for framing interactions in stakeholder workshops (Bonté et al 2019).…”

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“…When ignored, these relations may lead to maladaptation because they influence decisionmaking at regional levels and, as a consequence, frame capacity to adapt at local levels. Therville et al (2018) focus on the multiplicity of adaptation processes linked to coastal management and land use planning at diverse organization levels in Southern France. They connect the Robustness Framework with the Network of Adjacent Action Situations approach (McGinnis 2011) to demonstrate the intensification of cascading effects and cross-scale feedbacks with increasing tensions among land planning and coastal management policies due to various global change impacts in the region.…”

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“…This is quite different from more general, abstract role-playing games, public good games, or common-pool resource games whose players have no attachment to the game context (e.g., undergraduate students and community members who participate in generalized games). Bonté et al (2019) describe such a game designed on the basis of the French case study by Therville et al (2018) using the Robustness Framework as a guide and incorporating the existence of interactions across scales. This game pushes participants to explore the consequences of the interdependencies inherent in their choices of infrastructures to adapt some sectoral policy in a given place.…”

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Governance principles for robust and resilient coastal systems in the face of global change

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Barreteau

2019

Reg Environ Change

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Coastal areas face special challenges resulting from global change. These challenges are related to three distinct features of coastal areas: concentration of environmental impacts, multiple thresholds, and high sensitivity to climate change. River networks and hydrological processes integrate the consequences of land use and human activities that take place over large areas and, as a result, concentrate their impacts in coastal areas. Coastal areas are characterized by numerous sensitive boundaries and thresholds, i.e., the land-water interface, the intersection of saline and freshwater environments, and constrained space for particular land use patterns. Hence, they are especially sensitive to climate change impacts: a small change in sea level has the potential to push the system beyond a critical threshold and induce radical change in the social-ecological system. Further, the stakes for decisionmaking are high: a relatively large proportion of the population lives in coastal areas, real estate is very valuable, they are often biodiversity hot spots, and are home to very productive agro-ecosystems. This creates a high potential for conflict across multiple user groups. Many policymakers are aware of this situation and generate adaptation plans at their jurisdictional levels. However, policymakers acting in their own jurisdiction may generate spillovers that modify evolution pathways of related social-ecological systems or constrain adaptive capacity of other policymakers operating in other jurisdictions. As a consequence, there are several warning signs of John M. Anderies

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Challenges for local adaptation when governance scales overlap. Evidence from Languedoc, France

Cited by 22 publications

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The emergence and resilience of self-organized governance in coupled infrastructure systems

The emergence and resilience of self-organized governance in coupled infrastructure systems

Transfers of vulnerability through adaptation plan implementation: an analysis based on networks of feedback control loops

Governance principles for robust and resilient coastal systems in the face of global change

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