Complex systems leadership in emergent community projects

Onyx, Jenny; Leonard, Rosemary

doi:10.1093/cdj/bsq041

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“…The presence of respected and recognized leaders by the community is another factor identified in the literature as a facilitator of collective action among resource users of a CPR (Wade 1994;Baland and Platteau 2000;Vedeld 2000;Onyx and Leonard 2011). However, in CGSM many factors, including the inadequate management of the resources and information of some projects, the lack of accountability, the untrustworthy reputation of leaders (A5), and the murder of some of the new leaders, have totally restrained people's interest to lead or participate in any community activity.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective action in a tropical estuarine lagoon: adapting Ostrom’s SES framework to Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia

Torres-Guevara

Schlüter

López

2016

International Journal of the Commons

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Abstract:The paper contributes to the social-ecological systems literature by adapting and using Elinor Ostrom's Social-Ecological System (SES) framework in the context of a coastal ecosystem. We modified the SES framework in the case of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (CGSM), an estuarine lagoon in the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The ecological importance of CGSM and its species is undeniable. This paper aims to understand why collective action for a sustainable use of CGSM's fishery resources has not taken place. In order to respond to that question, we created new variables within the social, economic, and political settings of the SES framework. The results show that the fishers' fear of the indiscriminate and strong violence that illegal armed groups have inflicted on them since the 1960s and the economic development in the Colombian Caribbean region help explain the lack of collective action.Keywords: Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, collective action, Colombia, common-pool resources, conflict, fisheries, Social-Ecological System (SES) framework Collective action in a tropical estuarine lagoon 335 Acknowledgement: We thank INVEMAR's researchers, especially Efraín Viloria and Myriam Vargas for providing outstanding support for this research. Special thanks to Micaela Kulesz for her support and discussion in the early stages of this paper. We appreciate very much comments from Ana Maria Roldan on an early version of this manuscript. We are very thankful to CGSM's fishermen, in particular fishermen from Tasajera, because without their help this research would not have been possible. We would like also to express our gratitude to INVEMAR's field assistants in CGSM, in particular to Vladimir Carbonó for his valuable and constant support. Likewise, we want to thank Rubén Vásquez and Alexander Acuña for all their assistance in the field when we conducted the survey. We also appreciate comments received in an early version of this paper from participants in the WOW5 Conference at Indiana University. We value the editing work done by Joanna Broderick. Finally, we would like to thank two anonymous reviewers who have contributed valuable comments. This research was funded and supported by the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) and the German-Colombian Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences (CEMarin).

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Collective action in a tropical estuarine lagoon: adapting Ostrom’s SES framework to Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia

Torres-Guevara

Schlüter

López

2016

International Journal of the Commons

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“…We need much better metaphors and conceptual models to work with. One such is complexity theory (Chia, 1998;Cilliers, 2005;Goldstein & Hazy, 2006;Onyx and Leonard, 2011). This is a kind of meta-methodological approach which leads to very different lines of inquiry.…”

Section: The Anthropocenementioning

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A Review of Third Sector Research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: 1990–2016

Onyx

Nowland-Foreman

2017

Voluntaristics Review

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“…There is a limited body of research on the characteristics of similar concepts such as catalysts (Grisham, 2010), sparkplugs (Luke, 1997), the fourth leg of the stool (McKnight, 2013), assets of citizen democracy (McKnight, 2003), volunteer leaders (Bowers & Hamby, 2013;Posner, 2015), and emergent or generative leaders (Onyx & Leonard, 2011). Each of these descriptors related to the characteristics of community champions that we, the Tide research team, found in our analysis and describe below.…”

Section: Characteristics Of Championsmentioning

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Turning the Tide on Poverty: Community champions as critical elements of success in economically distressed communities

Worthy

Downey

Dyk

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Community Development

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Complex systems leadership in emergent community projects

Cited by 50 publications

References 15 publications

Collective action in a tropical estuarine lagoon: adapting Ostrom’s SES framework to Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia

Collective action in a tropical estuarine lagoon: adapting Ostrom’s SES framework to Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia

A Review of Third Sector Research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: 1990–2016

Turning the Tide on Poverty: Community champions as critical elements of success in economically distressed communities

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