Reflections on the Legitimacy of Regional Environmental Governance: Lessons from Australia's Experiment in Natural Resource Management

An interview methodology for exploring the values that community leaders assign to multiple-use landscapes.

“…An outcome is that regional actors and overriding government policies are often discordant at the fundamental level of motivation. The setting and attainment of resource condition targets is sometimes viewed as the means to achieving the social "end" for a regional community (Wallington et al 2008). However, without a better understanding of the values of each group, how they relate to each other, and how these values are expressed in NRM, public policy in this domain may consistently fall short of expectations.…”

Evaluating Governance Arrangements and Decision Making for Natural Resource Management Planning: An Empirical Application of the Governance Systems Analysis Framework

“…A number of empirically and theoretically grounded evaluative frameworks exist to analyse governance systems (Burns, 2006;Hill & Hupe, 2006;Kenward et al, 2011;Ostrom, 2009;Pahl-Wostl, 2009;Sabatier & Jenkins-Smith, 1993;Wallington et al, 2008). The use of these evaluative frameworks in practice has varied, with some used more extensively (e.g.…”

Scaling in Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation

“…Thus, legitimacy depends on the extent to which a decision is acceptable to the participants of the process (Adger et al 2003), who is involved as a participant and how representative participants are for the actual stakeholders groups (Green 2010). It also involves the acceptance or the acknowledgement of suitable power to a certain decisionmaking authority (social approval of using power) (Wallington et al 2008), which in turn requires an assumption of the desirable and proper action of Legitimacy of site selection processes across Europe: Social construction of legitimacy in three European countries Joanna cent, Małgorzata grodzińska-Jurczak, agata Pietrzyk-kaszyńska, riikka PalonieMi, eVangelia aPostoloPoulou, anna salomaa, mariana a. tsianou, JuKKa similä, JoHn d. Pantis this entity (Schlossberg and Shuford 2005).…”