The evolution of self-organizing communication networks in high-risk social-ecological systems

Berardo, Ramiro

doi:10.18352/ijc.463

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“…Our findings also build on the closed vs. open network structure debate (and subsequently, the bonding vs. bridging capital debate) that is of increasing importance to the complex governance literature (Berardo, 2014a(Berardo, , 2014bBerardo & Scholz, 2010;Fischer et al, 2014;Ingold & Leifeld, 2014;Shrestha, 2013). We find (as others have) that there is no panacea: the extent to which either structure is advantageous is conditional on the needs of the individual actor and that these needs vary between actors in the same system.…”

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The Impact of Forum Interdependence and Network Structure on Actor Performance in Complex Governance Systems

Mewhirter¹,

Berardo²

2018

Policy Studies Journal

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One of the main assumptions of the Ecology of Games Framework (EGF) is that governance processes are heavily affected by the interactions among policy actors that take place in multiple decision‐making forums, which often function interdependently. In this article, we use data collected in the Tampa Bay and California Delta water governance systems to examine how “biophysical interdependence”—the extent to which forums deal with interconnected policy problems—impacts the costs that actors face when they participate in forums, which in turn can affect their performance in them. Furthermore, we examine how the individual information exchange networks that actors have (i.e., their ego‐networks) can mediate the previous relationship. We find that actors with networks that have more closure are better able to mitigate the costs associated with participating in biophysically interdependent forums, thus leading to better in‐forum performance. Our findings shed new light on the relationship between structure and function in complex ecologies of games.

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The Impact of Forum Interdependence and Network Structure on Actor Performance in Complex Governance Systems

Mewhirter¹,

Berardo²

2018

Policy Studies Journal

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“…Their research thus suggests that low‐risk situations are associated with the emergence of bridging structures in networks, as the risk hypothesis predicts. Since then, other research has found additional support for the risk hypothesis (Berardo ; Feiock, Lee, and Park ; Henry and Vollan ; Lee ; Lubell, Robins, and Wang ).…”

Section: Bonding and Bridging Structures Involving Actors And Forumsmentioning

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Understanding What Shapes a Polycentric Governance System

Berardo

Lubell

2016

Public Administration Review

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Recent research has shown that communication networks involving governmental and nongovernmental actors self-organize based on how risk is perceived. According to the "risk hypothesis," actors embedded in governance systems in which there is widespread risk of defection tend to form bonding structures, whereas those in low-risk systems form bridging structures. A parallel strand of research proposes to study complex governance systems composed of multiple actors and the decision-making forums in which they interact. In this article, the authors couple these research threads and show how bonding and bridging structures form when stakeholders participate in three complex governance systems of varying institutional strength. Findings suggest that the prevalence of one type of structure over the other depends on contextual variables such as the stability of the institutions and the occurrence of environmental focusing events that demand quick policy responses. Practitioner Points• Understanding complex governance systems requires knowing how actors participate simultaneously in multiple forums. • Bonding social capital is more valuable for the exchange of overlapping information that can be used to prevent uncooperative behavior, while bridging social capital is more valuable for the acquisition of new information for innovation. • Regardless of the strength of formal institutions in complex governance systems, both governmental and nongovernmental actors tend to join policy forums that are heavily attended. • The shape of governance systems is likely a function of the strength of formal institutions, the organizational capacity of individual policy actors, and the level of centralized authority vested in governmental actors.

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“…Many collective action problems can be divided into two broad classes-coordination versus cooperation problems. The former describes a situation where all or most actors agree on what they want to accomplish, and getting there is more a matter of orchestrating the actors' different activities in efficient ways (57). Joint efforts to eradicate an invasive salt-marsh cordgrass species in the San Francisco Bay in California serves as an example of a coordination problem (58).…”

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Collaborative environmental governance: Achieving collective action in social-ecological systems

Bodin

2017

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Managing ecosystems is challenging because of the high number of stakeholders, the permeability of man-made political and jurisdictional demarcations in relation to the temporal and spatial extent of biophysical processes, and a limited understanding of complex ecosystem and societal dynamics. Given these conditions, collaborative governance is commonly put forward as the preferred means of addressing environmental problems. Under this paradigm, a deeper understanding of if, when, and how collaboration is effective, and when other means of addressing environmental problems are better suited, is needed. Interdisciplinary research on collaborative networks demonstrates that which actors get involved, with whom they collaborate, and in what ways they are tied to the structures of the ecosystems have profound implications on actors' abilities to address different types of environmental problems.

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The evolution of self-organizing communication networks in high-risk social-ecological systems

Cited by 48 publications

References 27 publications

The Impact of Forum Interdependence and Network Structure on Actor Performance in Complex Governance Systems

The Impact of Forum Interdependence and Network Structure on Actor Performance in Complex Governance Systems

Understanding What Shapes a Polycentric Governance System

Collaborative environmental governance: Achieving collective action in social-ecological systems

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