Diagnosing adaptive comanagement across multiple cases

Plummer, Ryan; Baird, Julia; Armitage, Derek; Bodin, Örjan; Schultz, Lisen

doi:10.5751/es-09436-220319

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“…We agree with Cumming and his colleagues [24], who emphasize the relevance of scales for the effectiveness of conservation strategies. It is also consistent with the framework developed by Plummer and his colleagues [61], concerning adaptive co-management initiatives. Using a similar structure, based in settings, antecedents, process and outcomes, the authors developed a set of sub-categories, which are particular important regarding the processes of learning and collaboration.…”

Section: Biosphere Reserve Framework and Social-ecological System Frasupporting

confidence: 87%

“…We also provided a more exhaustive identification of most of the sub-categories, and a clear recognition of the importance of the context, feedback and scales across all categories. Therefore, besides being consistent with the frameworks discussed [9,29,61], our framework adds new information, and provides a more holistic perspective on social-ecological systems management and governance.…”

Section: Biosphere Reserve Framework and Social-ecological System Framentioning

confidence: 58%

“…It can further inspire management and governance of biosphere reserves at different scales, e.g., through the definition of specific third-level variables, the framework may provide a structure for the development of criteria for the establishment and evaluation of biosphere reserves, as Pool-Stanvliet and her colleagues [60] have developed for biosphere reserves in South Africa. It may also be useful to systematically report experiences with management and governance, as Plummer and his colleagues [61] have proposed in relation to adaptive co-management processes. Such systematization can provide a better understanding of factors associated with positive and less positive outcomes and, eventually, the identification of the factors in the system that may leverage biosphere reserves success.…”

Section: Factors Influencing Biosphere Reserve Management Effectivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Social–Ecological Systems Framework as a Tool for Understanding the Effectiveness of Biosphere Reserve Management

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Biosphere reserves aim to reconciliate social and economic development with biodiversity conservation through complex spatial and governance arrangements. However, there is a generalized lack of information about how biosphere reserves are being managed and governed, and at what point their goals are being achieved, which limits a better understanding of the factors influencing biosphere reserve management effectiveness. Building on a systematic review of existing empirical studies, we developed a framework that identifies the main features related to biosphere reserve management effectiveness. We identified four main categories—context, inputs, process and outcomes—and 53 sub-categories, which interact at different scales and shape biosphere reserve effectiveness. We found that the capacity of biosphere reserves to achieve their goals is not only related to the way they are managed/governed, or to the inputs invested, but to many social and ecological contextual factors. We also identified benefits and impacts that were associated to biosphere reserves around the world. Comparing to other social–ecological system frameworks, ours provides a more inclusive approach, since it integrates the findings of studies with different research perspectives, considers a plurality of values attributed to natural resources, and the social–ecological system’s scales dynamics.

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Section: Biosphere Reserve Framework and Social-ecological System Frasupporting

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Section: Biosphere Reserve Framework and Social-ecological System Framentioning

confidence: 58%

Section: Factors Influencing Biosphere Reserve Management Effectivenessmentioning

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“…The SEI was developed as a tool for conservation managers to systematically identify key stakeholders and to prepare the ground for participation in natural resources management (Schultz et al 2007(Schultz et al , 2011. The SEI captures qualitative data about stakeholders and their motives, knowledge, experience, activities and networks, thereby explicitly bridging social and ecological systems by considering human factors and influences (Schultz et al 2011, Plummer et al 2017. While described as a stepwise process, phases can occur concurrently and are dynamic, with the intention of iterative feedback.…”

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Exploring the alignment between the bottom-up and top-down objectives of a landscape-scale conservation initiative

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Summary Globally, there is a trend towards conserving biodiversity by promoting co-management with multiple stakeholders at landscape scales. Environmental policies emphasize stakeholder engagement in decision-making, yet landscape conservation is typically a bureaucratic–scientific endeavour. Building trusting relationships with stakeholders is key to negotiations that minimize trade-offs and maximize synergies. Incorporating shared stakeholder objectives improves co-management, as they act as incentives for participation and trust development. We explored the degree of alignment between the bottom-up stakeholder objectives and top-down management objectives of a landscape-scale conservation initiative on the West Coast of South Africa. We categorized stakeholders into six affiliations representing governmental, private and community organizations, and using a social-ecological inventory we identified ten shared objectives. Of these objectives, three were shared between all affiliations, namely biodiversity conservation, socioeconomic development and coordination of the landscape approach. The first two aligned with the top-down landscape management objectives and the latter did not. The importance of coordinating landscape approaches in multi-stakeholder landscape-scale initiatives is crucial to long-term success, and we recommend that it be formally included as a landscape management objective. Exploring the alignment between bottom-up and top-down objectives can highlight overlooked functions of co-management and can reduce the transaction costs of sustaining conservation efforts in the long term.

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“…The links between governance goals and EA are most visible in the adaptive governance literature, which argues for participatory management, decentralized governance, cross-sectoral learning and implementation, open and shared information, integration between science and policy making and learning, recognition of fluid or unorganized forms of power, and integration of marginalized groups in adaptation decision-making (Pahl-wostl et al, 2007;Plummer et al, 2017;Vink et al, 2013). While policy learning is seen to be important in the multi-level governance literature, social learning is identified as critical in the adaptation literature (Gonzales-Iwanciw et al, 2020).…”

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Interrogating ‘effectiveness’ in climate change adaptation: 11 guiding principles for adaptation research and practice

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Climate and Development

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The Paris Agreement articulates a global goal on adaptation, which aims to ensure an 'adequate adaptation response' to the 'global temperature goal', and requires countries to report progress through periodic global stocktakes. However, there remain conceptual and methodological challenges in defining an adaptation goal and mixed evidence on what effective adaptation looks like and how it can be enabled. In this review, we demonstrate how different normative views on adaptation outcomes, arising from different epistemological and disciplinary entry points, can lead to very different interpretations of adaptation effectiveness. We argue that how effectiveness is framed will significantly impact adaptation implementation and outcomes. This, furthermore, represents a way of exercising influence in adaptation decision-making. Eleven principles of effective adaptation are distilled as a way to pluralize guidance in international processes such as the Global Stocktake as well as national and sub-national exercises on tracking and monitoring adaptation.

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Diagnosing adaptive comanagement across multiple cases

Cited by 20 publications

References 21 publications

A Social–Ecological Systems Framework as a Tool for Understanding the Effectiveness of Biosphere Reserve Management

A Social–Ecological Systems Framework as a Tool for Understanding the Effectiveness of Biosphere Reserve Management

Exploring the alignment between the bottom-up and top-down objectives of a landscape-scale conservation initiative

Interrogating ‘effectiveness’ in climate change adaptation: 11 guiding principles for adaptation research and practice

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