Sustainable natural resource governance under interest group competition in policy-making

Orach, Kirill; Duit, Andreas; Schlüter, Maja

doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0885-y

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“…Our work provides important insights into how interactions between the different actors involved in collaborative governance systems can buffer political influences on wildlife management decisions and lead to stable wildlife population trends (Darimont et al, 2018 ). In particular, our findings echo of the ‘tug of war’ concept used by Orach et al ( 2020 ) to characterise the feedback mechanism between stakeholder decisions that they find stabilises European Union fisheries quotas by counterbalancing the influence of opposing interests. Importantly, they observe that such a mechanism can be beneficial to natural resource management, sometimes delaying or preventing stock collapse.…”

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Quantifying the checks and balances of collaborative governance systems for adaptive carnivore management

Cusack

Nilsen

Israelsen

et al. 2022

Journal of Applied Ecology

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1. Recovering or threatened carnivore populations are often harvested to minimise their impact on human activities, such as livestock farming or game hunting.Increasingly, harvest quota decisions involve a set of scientific, administrative and political institutions operating at national and sub-national levels whose interactions and collective decision-making aim to increase the legitimacy of management and ensure population targets are met. In practice, however, assessments of how quota decisions change between these different actors and what consequences these changes have on population trends are rare.2. We combine a state-space population modelling approach with an analysis of quota decisions taken at both regional and national levels between 2007 and 2018 to build a set of decision-making models that together predict annual harvest quota values for Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in Norway.3. We reveal a tendency for administrative decision-makers to compensate for consistent quota increases by political actors, particularly when the lynx population size estimate is above the regional target. Using population forecasts based on the ensemble of decision-making models, we show that such buffering of political biases ensures lynx population size remains close to regional and national targets in the long term. 4. Our results go beyond the usual qualitative assessment of collaborative governance systems for carnivore management, revealing a system of checks and balances that, in the case of lynx in Norway, ensures both multi-stakeholder participation and sustainable harvest quotas. Nevertheless, we highlight important inter-regional differences in decision-making and population forecasts, the socio-ecological drivers of which need to be better understood to prevent future population declines. Synthesis and applications.Our work analyses the sequence of decisions leading to yearly quotas for lynx harvest in Norway, highlighting the collaborative and structural processes that together shape harvest sustainability. In doing so, we provide a predictive framework to evaluate participatory decision-making | 1039

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Quantifying the checks and balances of collaborative governance systems for adaptive carnivore management

Cusack

Nilsen

Israelsen

et al. 2022

Journal of Applied Ecology

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“…Our work provides important insights into how interactions between the different actors involved in decentralised governance systems can buffer political influences on wildlife management decisions and lead to stable wildlife population trends (Darimont et al, 2014). In particular, our findings echo of the "tug of war" concept used by Orach et al (2020) to characterise the feedback mechanism between stakeholder decisions that they find stabilises European Union fisheries quotas by counterbalancing the influence of opposing interests. Importantly, they observe that such a mechanism can be beneficial to natural resource management, sometimes delaying or preventing stock collapse.…”

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confidence: 59%

Quantifying the checks and balances of decentralised governance systems for adaptive carnivore management

Cusack¹,

Nilsen²,

Israelsen³

et al. 2021

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1.Recovering or threatened carnivore populations are often harvested to minimise their impact on human activities, such as livestock farming or game hunting. Increasingly, harvest quota decisions involve a set of scientific, administrative and political institutions operating at national and sub-national levels whose interactions and collective decision-making aim to increase the legitimacy of management and ensure population targets are met. In practice, however, assessments of how quota decisions change between these different actors and what consequences these changes have on population trends are rare.2.We combine a state-space population modelling approach with an analysis of quota decisions taken at both regional and national levels between 2007 and 2018 to build a set of decision-making models that together predict annual harvest quota values for Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in Norway. 3.We reveal a tendency for administrative decision-makers to compensate for consistent quota increases by political actors, particularly when the lynx population size estimate is above the regional target. Using population forecasts based on the ensemble of decision-making models, we show that such buffering of political biases ensures lynx population size remains close to regional and national targets in the long-term.4.Our results go beyond the usual qualitative assessment of decentralised governance systems for carnivore management, revealing a system of checks and balances that, in the case of lynx in Norway, ensures both multi-stakeholder participation and sustainable harvest quotas. 5.Our work provides a predictive framework to evaluate co-participatory decision-making processes in wildlife management, paving the way for scientists and decision-makers to collaborate more widely in identifying where decision biases might lie and how institutional arrangements can be optimised to minimise them. We emphasise, however, that this is only possible if wildlife management decisions are documented and transparent.

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“…In studies of fisheries, we find dynamical systems modelling applied to study the interactions between social and ecological processes that contributed to the temporary persistence of the cod boom as well as to its subsequent collapse (Lade et al, 2015), and bioeconomic modelling for optimising long‐term harvests in relation to cost and effort (Crépin, 2007; Dowling et al, 2012). The structurally realistic models include studies on how cooperation between fishers can emerge and influence fishery sustainability (Gutierrez et al, 2017; Lindkvist et al, 2017), the emergence of harvesting strategies (Klein et al, 2017; Plank et al, 2017; Wilson et al, 2007) and negotiations between interest groups in the Baltic Sea (Orach et al, 2020).…”

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Untangling social–ecological interactions: A methods portfolio approach to tackling contemporary sustainability challenges in fisheries

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Sustainable natural resource governance under interest group competition in policy-making

Cited by 22 publications

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Quantifying the checks and balances of collaborative governance systems for adaptive carnivore management

Quantifying the checks and balances of collaborative governance systems for adaptive carnivore management

Quantifying the checks and balances of decentralised governance systems for adaptive carnivore management

Untangling social–ecological interactions: A methods portfolio approach to tackling contemporary sustainability challenges in fisheries

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