Identifying governance gaps among interlinked sustainability challenges

Effectiveness of Costa Rica’s Conservation Portfolio to Lower Deforestation, Protect Primates, and Increase Community Participation

“…These transaction costs, especially the cost and time required to apply, were cited by several landowners explaining their lack of participation in the incentive programs. Furthermore, collaborations can be time consuming with partnerships dominated by and benefiting the more powerful partner, thus limiting localized social-ecological benefits (Youtie and Bozeman, 2016;Schröter et al, 2018;Bergsten et al, 2019). Cultural and linguistic differences, diverse interests and capabilities, and limited funding can also reduce the effectiveness of collaborations (Ulnicane, 2015;Jiren et al, 2018;Partelow and Nelson, 2018).…”

“…Collaborations that provide opportunities for knowledge exchange, reciprocal interaction, and trust are most effective (Jean et al, 2018;Abrahams et al, 2019;Bergsten et al, 2019). Thus, partners with high social capital, expansive social networks, and central positions in those networks will be crucial to facilitating conservation collaboration through their access to social-ecological information and ability to develop new relationships within and beyond local communities (Mbaru and Barnes, 2017;Jean et al, 2018;Bergsten et al, 2019). Research stations, which were central to our ability to conduct this research, meet many of these qualifications for being central partners connecting disparate conservation approaches through their connections with local communities, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, tourists, students, and researchers (Beck et al, 2019).…”

Social-ecological network analysis for sustainability sciences: a systematic review and innovative research agenda for the future

“…The most common involved motif frequency counts (e.g. Bodin and Tengö 2012, Bergsten et al 2019, which evaluate the relative prevalence of certain network structures (typically featuring a small number of nodes). This approach is conceptually similar to exponential random graph modeling (ERGM)-also a common approach in the studies we reviewed (e.g.…”

An assessment of the transformational potential of REDD+ in tackling drivers of deforestation

“…With this new momentum at global level to move towards more integrative approaches to addressing global environmental challenges, there is a particular need to identify and evaluate new approaches to tropical forest governance. This issue has long been highly fragmented in nature and is now reported to be the environmental sustainability issue with the lowest level of collaborative and cooperative governance (Bergsten et al 2019). In the next section, I thus discuss the development of multi-level forest governance to date and how this is intersecting with some of the more recent environmental governance thinking relating to sustainable consumption and production and the need to catalyse transformational change.…”

“…This is demonstrated most directly by the adoption of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a proposed new Global Pact for the Environment (Kotzé and French 2018). As attention is turning towards the need to address sustainability challenges from a more integrative approach, it is instructive to look at forest governance in particular, as one recent study showed this to be the sustainability issue with the lowest level of collaborative and cooperative governance (Bergsten et al 2019). Furthermore, whilst 'transformation' has become the latest buzzword in environmental governance, it is still unexplored as a concept and there are inherent risks to its embrace within the sustainability realm without further research, such as a further shift of the burden of responsibilities on to weaker parties (Blythe et al 2018).…”