Participatory Water Basin Councils in Peru and Brazil: Expert discourses as means and barriers to inclusion

García, María Mancilla; Bodin, Örjan

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.02.005

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“…It is also framed by different terminologies like public participation, popular participation, collective action, community-based/driven action, and stakeholder engagement with a core concept of people's involvement for a common objective (Kyamusugulwa, 2013). It is thus commonly defined as the inclusion of nonstate actors in decision-making and implementation (Wesselink et al, 2011;Mancilla García & Bodin, 2019).…”

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Assessing the societal adoptability of participatory water management: an application of the Motivation and Ability (MOTA) framework

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Exploring whether society is sufficiently equipped and motivated to adopt planned interventions is vital for modern plan development trajectories. The Motivation and Ability (MOTA) framework offers a tool to assess the societal adoptability of plans by exploring stakeholders' motivations and abilities. It was originally developed to assess plan implementation feasibility for structural measures of flood management in the Mekong Delta. Further development is necessary before applying the tool in other contexts and for other types of planning interventions. Institutional measures like participatory water management (PWM) have long been recognized as essential elements for water management, but have so far also remained out of the reach of conventional planning assessment tools such as cost–benefit or cost-effectiveness analyses. This research, therefore, aims at extending the MOTA tool in the context of PWM reforms in Bangladesh. It does this by, first, further detailing the MOTA components and identifying indicators for quantification and, second, an expert validation and application of this framework for coastal communities in Bangladesh. Our results suggest that the MOTA framework is capable of informing policymakers and implementing agencies about how to enhance the stakeholders' motivation and ability to ensure an enduring implementation of PWM reforms. HIGHLIGHTS The Motivation and Ability (MOTA) framework appeared recently to capture the societal and institutional dimensions in assessing the implementation feasibility of structural measures. This research further extends the MOTA framework and tests whether this can be applicable in case of assessing the implementation feasibility of soft measures like participatory water management.

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Section: Pwm and The Need For Exploring Societal Adoptabilitymentioning

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Assessing the societal adoptability of participatory water management: an application of the Motivation and Ability (MOTA) framework

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“…Indeed, when facing different social and complex issues, analytical processes need to be associated with reflective and experimental thinking to fully tackle system dynamics. For this reason, there has been a growing consensus over the past two decades that participatory and inclusive processes are necessary for effective and fair decision-making in the specific arena of water governance [27][28][29][30].…”

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Promoting Environmental Justice through Integrated Mapping Approaches: The Map of Water Conflicts in Andalusia (Spain)

Mateos

Laconi

Ituarte

2020

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Addressing environmental governance conflicts requires the adoption of a complexity approach to carry out an adaptive process of collective learning, exploration, and experimentation. In this article, we hypothesize that by integrating community-based participatory mapping processes with internet-based collaborative digital mapping technologies, it is possible to create tools and spaces for knowledge co-production and collective learning. We also argue that providing a collaborative web platform enables these projects to become a repository of activist knowledge and practices that are often poorly stored and barely shared across communities and organizations. The collaborative Webmap of Water Conflicts in Andalusia, Spain, is used to show the benefits and potential of mapping processes of this type. The article sets out the steps and methods used to develop this experience: (i) background check; (ii) team discussion and draft proposal; (iii) in-depth interviews, and (iv) integrated participative and collaborative mapping approach. The main challenge that had to be addressed during this process was to co-create a tool able to combine the two perspectives that construct the identity of integrated mapping: a data-information-knowledge co-production process that is useful for the social agents—the environmental activists—while also sufficiently categorizable and precise to enable the competent administrations to steer their water management.

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“…As Beall (2002) argues, "From a neoliberal perspective, social exclusion can be seen as an unfortunate but inevitable side effect of global economic realignment", [103] (pp. [43][44].…”

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“…However, for Paraguay, there is a significant gap in the governance research literature, especially at the community level [28,29,41]. We draw on the literature regarding participatory and environmental governance approaches for wetlands in the region [28,42,43]. For Colombia, although several analyses (e.g., policy papers) concentrate on land use, biodiversity, and renewable energy [2,34,44], literature analyzing community-based governance models is lacking.…”

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“…It also helps empower a community-based environment, where inclusion and engagement are key factors [48]. In South America, as a concrete means to promote social and economic welfare, as well as land-ownership rights and conservation issues, participatory community-based governance is being tested through a number of voluntary actions including cooperatives, syndicates, and associations [23][24][25]43,49,50]. This trend often results in resistance to centralized, top-down model structures, whether political, institutional, or economic; those only represent the wealthiest elites.…”

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Mechanisms of Weak Governance in Grasslands and Wetlands of South America

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Weak governance is a major threat to sustainable development, especially in rural contexts and within ecosystems of great social and economic value. To understand and compare its arrangement in the grasslands and wetlands of the Colombian Llanos and the Paraguayan Pantanal, we build upon the Institutional and Development Framework (IAD) as we explore the role of political, economic, and social institutions and combine components of the theory of common-pool resources (CPR) and new institutional economics (NIE). This hybrid conceptualization provides a synthesis of how top-down hierarchical and market-based systems of community-based and natural resource management negatively affect sustainable development in both study areas. Our findings suggest three underlying mechanisms causing a situation of weak governance: centralized (economic and political) power, the role of central and local governments, and social exclusion. Understanding these multidimensional contextual mechanisms improves the understanding that institutional structures supporting arrangements that handle grasslands and wetlands in a sustainable way are needed to protect the ecosystem’s social and economic values, especially in rural and marginalized contexts.

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Participatory Water Basin Councils in Peru and Brazil: Expert discourses as means and barriers to inclusion

Cited by 29 publications

References 70 publications

Assessing the societal adoptability of participatory water management: an application of the Motivation and Ability (MOTA) framework

Assessing the societal adoptability of participatory water management: an application of the Motivation and Ability (MOTA) framework

Promoting Environmental Justice through Integrated Mapping Approaches: The Map of Water Conflicts in Andalusia (Spain)

Mechanisms of Weak Governance in Grasslands and Wetlands of South America

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