Collaborative environmental governance and transaction costs in partnerships: evidence from a social network approach to water management in France

Boschet, Christophe; Rambonilaza, Tina

doi:10.1080/09640568.2017.1290589

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“…In the scientific literature the term governance associated with estuaries can either be found as an explanation to the existing problems [2,[34][35][36] or as a source of hope to solve the problems by enabling the improvement of the ways communities and related institutions organize themselves in order to better protect and use estuarine resources and values [21,22,37]. These concerns emerge either associated with particular estuarine challenges, such as fisheries and other estuarine resources [8,15,34], water management [3,35,36,38] or climate change and ecosystem services [2,39], or associated with transversal issues, such as adaptive management, integrated planning and policy approaches [20][21][22][23], co-operative and collaborative governance approaches enabling stakeholder engagement [24,38], or appropriate legal frameworks [35,40,41] able to incorporate estuary values and protection means.…”

Section: A Literature Review On Estuary Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Irrespective of decades of estuarine studies and subsequent knowledge [4], development approaches continue to put pressure on local resources and cause extensive changes across associated social and ecological systems [2]. In addition, overlapping responsibilities and multiple-jurisdictions [5][6][7], spatial-sector conflicts [8], and their complex socio-cultural environment [9] have intensified the complexity of the governance of estuaries. In this context, governance is understood as the set of means by which society determines and acts on goals, priorities, and chains of rules, policies, and institutions related to the management of the natural environment [10,11].…”

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Governance for Sustainability of Estuarine Areas—Assessing Alternative Models Using the Case of Ria de Aveiro, Portugal

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Teles

Roebeling

et al. 2019

Water

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Estuaries are one of the most productive and complex types of ecosystems supporting a wide range of economic activities. Departing from a set of governance problems and emergent goals, such as sustainability or climate change adaptation faced by an estuarine case study area, Ria de Aveiro, in Portugal, this article assesses the adequacy of alternative governance models under the existing water resources legal framework and traditional political culture. It shows that apart from the centrally-based compliance model, all other alternatives require high degrees of institutional reforms. Moreover, although the model based on a dedicated new agency, long preferred by many users of Ria de Aveiro, is the most understandable and focused, it does not assure the pursuance of adaptability or collaboration, which are considered essential for estuary governance. As it relies on collective action and multi-level and multi-agent contexts, estuarine governance may require a new institutional design. Where one begins a process of institutional change, however, is not a simple issue to address and demands a deeper analysis, particularly on the types of required institutional changes, as well as on their impacts on policy and decision-making outcomes over estuarine environments and associated socio-ecological networks.

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Section: A Literature Review On Estuary Governancementioning

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Governance for Sustainability of Estuarine Areas—Assessing Alternative Models Using the Case of Ria de Aveiro, Portugal

Fidélis

Teles

Roebeling

et al. 2019

Water

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“…Most studies in watershed management practice have focused on a partnership approach as an instrument for collaborative planning. In the literature on partnerships, a much-debated question is whether the operation of partnerships can coordinate various interests among stakeholders in the face of conflicts and uneven power distribution (Basco-Carrera et al 2018;Boschet and Rambonilaza 2018;Kim and Batey 2020;Meijerink and Huitema 2017;Nikitina et al 2010;Rouillard and Spray 2017). On the other hand, a considerable amount of literature has also addressed how a partnership can be operated more effectively and efficiently.…”

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Embracing integrated watershed revitalization in Suzhou, China: learning from global case studies

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Suzhou is China’s historic water town, and a sustainable approach to watershed revitalization is firmly on the agenda. The practice of integrated watershed management requires collaborative planning involving a significant number of stakeholders; no single organization can solve the problems of ecosystem management unilaterally. The changing social–political environment in China has led to the development of a new form of governance. China is in transition from the traditional government image of a regulator and a controller towards an enabler that facilitates provision and action by, and through, others. Global case studies show that sustainability issues are essential to tackling watershed ecosystem management by creating a win–win strategy for wider stakeholders. Viewed from an institutional perspective, the emergence of a new collaborative partnership model requires a different implementation process to tackle practical problems in the face of complex watershed agendas. Drawing upon global and China’s experiences, the paper concludes that some planning processes require government leadership continuity, while others need bottom–up approaches.

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“…The adoption of a collaborative approach in the operation of partnerships has raised issues about how common values can be forged and applied in a real-life context, especially in the face of an uneven distribution of power. Many studies in the field of the partnership arrangements in river basin management have addressed the operational difficulties in co-ordinating various stakeholders in a partnership organization (Cortner et al 1998;Heathcote 1998;Kim and Batey 2001;Nikitina et al 2010;Meijerink and Huitema 2017;Rouillard and Spray 2017;Basco-Carrera et al 2018;Boschet and Rambonilaza 2018). Many scholars have studied the implementation of a partnership approach at the river basin level.…”

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“…An effective partnership requires a consensus to be built to understand priorities among complex watershed issues (EPA 2013). Previous studies have also emphasized that a partnership should: allow collective learning opportunities (Basco-Carrera et al 2018); strengthen the role of the actors from the private sector (Boschet and Rambonilaza 2018); fill the gap between levels of governance (Rouillard and Spray 2017); to list a few.…”

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Integrated watershed revitalization: the experience of the Mersey Basin Campaign

Kim

Batey

2020

Asia-Pac J Reg Sci

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The collaborative partnership approach has been used extensively in the practice of integrated river basin management across the world for at least the last two decades. This is despite the fact that there has been widespread acknowledgement that partnership working has operational difficulties, especially in the face of political inequality in a real-life context. This paper draws on the results of a research project investigating a concrete example of collaborative partnerships, the Mersey Basin Campaign, a government-sponsored 25-year initiative that aimed to improve water quality and the waterside environments of the Mersey River Basin. This research explores how the Campaign came to be formed, how it was organized and how partnership projects were implemented. The mechanism of the partnership service delivery is developed under three headings: consensus building, facilitation and open participation. The analysis of the results shows that governance and leadership partnership arrangements, which have evolved over time to reflect changing political and institutional environments, are critical for the implementation of watershed partnerships. The results from revisiting the practice of the Mersey Basin Campaign should be of assistance to planners to improve governance of watershed partnerships.

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Collaborative environmental governance and transaction costs in partnerships: evidence from a social network approach to water management in France

Cited by 20 publications

References 89 publications

Governance for Sustainability of Estuarine Areas—Assessing Alternative Models Using the Case of Ria de Aveiro, Portugal

Governance for Sustainability of Estuarine Areas—Assessing Alternative Models Using the Case of Ria de Aveiro, Portugal

Embracing integrated watershed revitalization in Suzhou, China: learning from global case studies

Integrated watershed revitalization: the experience of the Mersey Basin Campaign

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