Making democracy matter: Responsibility and effective environmental governance in regional Australia

Wallington, Tabatha; Lawrence, Geoffrey

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2007.11.003

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“…In this regard plant biosecurity parallels broader trends in Australian natural resource governance (Wallington and Lawrence 2008). Australian governments are trending away from relying only on regulation to achieve policy goals and are now just as likely to be one of several players in cooperative or partnership-based programs (Lane et al 2009, Taylor andLawrence 2012).…”

Section: Scale and Australian Environmental Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

From local to central: a network analysis of who manages plant pest and disease outbreaks across scales

McAllister¹,

Robinson²,

Maclean³

et al. 2015

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ABSTRACT. One of the key determinants of success in managing natural resources is "institutional fit," i.e., how well the suite of required actions collectively match the scale of the environmental problem. The effective management of pest and pathogen threats to plants is a natural resource problem of particular economic, social, and environmental importance. Responses to incursions are managed by a network of decision makers and managers acting at different spatial and temporal scales. We applied novel network theoretical methods to assess the propensity of growers, local industry, local state government, and state and national government head offices to foster either within-or across-scale coordination during the successful 2001 Australian response to the outbreak of the fungal pathogen black sigatoka (Mycosphaerella fijiensis). We also reconstructed the response network to proxy what that network would look like today under the Australian government's revised response system. We illustrate a structural move in the plant biosecurity response system from one that was locally driven to the current top-down system, in which the national government leads coordination of a highly partitioned engagement process. For biological incursions that spread widely across regions, nationally rather than locally managed responses may improve coordination of diverse tasks. However, in dealing with such challenges of institutional fit, local engagement will always be critical in deploying flexible and adaptive local responses based on a national system. The methods we propose detect where and how network structures foster cross-scale interactions, which will contribute to stronger empirical studies of cross-scale environmental governance.

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Section: Scale and Australian Environmental Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

From local to central: a network analysis of who manages plant pest and disease outbreaks across scales

McAllister¹,

Robinson²,

Maclean³

et al. 2015

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“…Limited success has been reported with these measures due to a lack of willingness by local actors to engage these in community-based programs that have typically involved onerous systems of accountability over funding and implementation (Wallington and Lawrence, 2008;Farrelly, 2009). Prager and Nagel (2008) challenged the effectiveness of these initiatives on the grounds that they have not been able to actively shape government policy.…”

Section: Mechanisms For Sustainable Development Of Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is to take account of the perceived increasing functional interdependencies of ecological and social systems in responding to economic globalisation and global environmental change. Further, the need for mutual obligation in environmentally responsible practice at the federal level has been suggested by Wallington and Lawrence (2008); however balance is required to also maintain socio-economic outcomes from intervention measures. This is particularly relevant as political authority from the federal government appears to be increasing by virtue of maximising opportunities from fiscal dominance to capture the Federal Constitution's allocation of environmental and NRM governance responsibilities to the states and territories (Marshall and Stafford Smith, 2010).…”

Section: Subsidiarity and Up-scaling Local And Community-based Processesmentioning

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“…There has been a global trend in natural resource management to move from top-down national and territory government control to more inclusive participatory multi-level and cross-scale governance in response to ineffectiveness of traditional measures (Lemos and Agrawal, 2006;Wallington and Lawrence, 2008;Lockwood, 2010). However, Marshall (2008) and Marshall and Stafford Smith (2010) argue that while governments have stated support of these aspirations to shift towards participatory multi-level governance, in practice they have sought to maintain or extend their control through innovative government-community partnerships that are actually purchaser-provider arrangements tightly controlled from the top-down.…”

Section: Adaptive Co-management To Overcome Deficiencies In Traditionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social learning: A knowledge and capacity building approach for adaptive co-management of contested landscapes

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“…It was a bold governance experiment (Lane, Robinson, & Taylor, 2009;Lockwood & Davidson, 2010;Robins & Dovers, 2007;Wallington & Lawrence, 2008). Each Australian state introduced different regional governance models.…”

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The Value Proposition of Regional Natural Resource Management in Queensland

Vella¹,

Cole-Hawthorne²,

Hardaker³

2017

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Making democracy matter: Responsibility and effective environmental governance in regional Australia

Cited by 62 publications

References 53 publications

From local to central: a network analysis of who manages plant pest and disease outbreaks across scales

From local to central: a network analysis of who manages plant pest and disease outbreaks across scales

Social learning: A knowledge and capacity building approach for adaptive co-management of contested landscapes

The Value Proposition of Regional Natural Resource Management in Queensland

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