Cultural Values and Ecosystem Management at the Subwatershed Level

Retallack, Matthew; Schott, Stephan

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“…Management units should contain an issue and all stakeholders affected by it; low spill‐over indicates high correspondence. Decision‐makers should also represent the diversity of interests in that problem at scale and the inclusion of different values in the policy formulation process (Retallack and Schott, ). Participator diversity indicates how broad the decision‐making base is, reflected by the range of different stakeholders within the area, and the over‐representation, or absence, of particular stakeholders in an organization, including industry, environmental groups, politicians from different parties, and tribes and subtribes.…”

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Scale Implications of Integrated Water Resource Management Politics: Lessons from New Zealand

McNeill

2016

Env Pol Gov

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Successful integrated water resource management (IWRM) is predicated on increased stakeholder participation and achieving environmental outcomes by locating decision‐making at the catchment scale of management. However, geographic scale impacts opportunities for participation and privileges some actors within the functional and spatial scope of decision‐making. Accordingly, rescaling may merely reconfigure rather than redistribute power. With its dual national and regional management of freshwater based on river catchments, New Zealand's experience of integrated environmental management provides insights for wider theory and practice. In response to recent significant freshwater quality decline from agricultural non‐point discharges over the last two decades and related public concern, the national government and regional councils have redefined participation constellations at national and regional government levels. This paper compares stakeholder diversity and policy effectiveness of regulatory agencies and collaborative initiatives at both national and regional levels, using the Manawatu River catchment as a case study. It detects low participator diversity within regulatory agencies, but relatively high policy salience. In contrast, the collaborative forums' low policy salience, despite their high participator diversity, raises questions about the substantive value of non‐regulatory collaborative initiatives. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Scale Implications of Integrated Water Resource Management Politics: Lessons from New Zealand

McNeill

2016

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“…In line with a growing body of evidence, we propose that people's preferences for such different water policies can be interpreted as expressions of their values (Bjornlund et al 2013;Gooch and Rigano 2010;Kochalski et al 2019;Kuruppu 2009;Retallack and Schott 2014;Russo Bauer and Smith 2007), although there is also emerging evidence that different water policies can shape people's values (Albizua et al 2019). As the theoretical basis for our study, we use the recently proposed 'Value Landscapes Approach' (Schulz et al 2017a(Schulz et al , b, 2018.…”

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Understanding Public Views on a Dam Construction Boom: the Role of Values

Schulz

Martín-Ortega

Glenk

2019

Water Resour Manage

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Large numbers of dams for hydroelectric power production are currently planned or under construction in many areas around the world. While positive and negative social and environmental impacts of dams are increasingly well understood, little is known about attitudes of the general public towards dams, even though benefits to wider society are often cited to legitimise their construction. In Brazil's Upper Paraguay River Basin, more than 100 mostly small-scale hydropower dams are planned or under construction in what can be considered a regional dam construction boom. Here we analyse public preferences for strategies to manage dam impacts in the area by investigating the value base that underpins such preferences, drawing on the recently proposed Value Landscapes Approach as our theoretical framework and data from a large representative household survey (N = 1067). We find that contrasting attitudes towards dams, expressed in preferences for economically or ecologically oriented water policies are informed by opposing underlying value landscapes, that is, groups of closely related fundamental, governance-related, and assigned (water) values. While such tensions between opposing values can never be fully eliminated, our research nevertheless gives insights to policy-makers seeking to minimise value conflict and to improve the political legitimacy of public decision-making on dam construction. Moreover, we find that a majority of members of the general public would prefer concentrating dam construction on some rivers while keeping others free-flowing, with direct implications for ecosystems and inland fisheries. This finding may guide policy-makers wishing to develop publicly supported water resources management strategies.

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“…Accounting for culture and values (Retallack & Schott, 2014), broader socioeconomic interests, and patterns of demand for ecosystem services across shared landscapes (Brauman et al, 2007;Vrebos et al, 2015), proved useful for tracing how factors within the political economy affect institutional development and implementation in the context of water resources governance. This added weight to challenges around conventional notions about the appropriateness of watersheds as a basis for water resources governance (de Loe & Patterson, 2017).…”

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“…Retallack, M., & Schott, S. (2014). Cultural values and ecosystem management at the subwatershed level.…”

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Ecosystem Services and the Political Economy of Watershed Governance

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Water is a multi-use resource, with governance being shaped by a range of interacting institutional and economic imperatives. These many uses comprise a joint system where water and economy are linked by varying degrees of dependency on water-based ecosystem services. The production of ecosystem services is contingent on underlying ecological processes. However these processes can be affected by our actions, creating a sustainability dilemma. Institutions are in place to manage the impacts of our actions; however, institutions are subject to a range of pressures including actor preferences, historical factors, socio-cultural narratives, the influence of ideas and experts, and political As with any journey the quality of this experience and the richness of its rewards was a function of guidance received along the way. It is with this in mind that I express my great appreciation for the energy and ideas that my co-Supervisors, Graeme Auld and Stephan Schott, brought to the task. In many ways the substantive focus of my thesis was fodder for the training of a research mind. Their efforts have imparted a capacity for clear communication of critical thought, while always keeping the policy relevance in mind, alongside the human dimensions of my work. It is equally important to be realistic about one's work and see it as part of a larger intellectual purpose. I was very fortunate to have Michael Brklachich and Robert Slater round out my committee, and join Stephan and Graeme in this project of fostering a research mind. There are many others at the School of Public Policy and Administration whose instruction and support have made this journey possible, enlightening and enjoyable. My coursework was thoroughly expansive. It brought a tremendous level of insight to previous professional experience, and resulted in the assembly of a robust interdisciplinary mental model of policy science for research and application. To the administrators who kept me on track, helped to traverse unseen hurdles, and intervened numerous times to ensure all the i's were dotted and the t's crossed, thank you. Last but not least, my PhD colleagues. We studied together, struggled together, shared our highs and lows, critiques and compliments. We have lived our lives together and it has been a true pleasure to spend this time with you.

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Cultural Values and Ecosystem Management at the Subwatershed Level

Cited by 7 publications

References 44 publications

Scale Implications of Integrated Water Resource Management Politics: Lessons from New Zealand

Scale Implications of Integrated Water Resource Management Politics: Lessons from New Zealand

Understanding Public Views on a Dam Construction Boom: the Role of Values

Ecosystem Services and the Political Economy of Watershed Governance

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