The influence of social criteria in mobilizing watershed conservation efforts: A case study of a successful watershed in the Midwestern U.S

Church, Sarah P.; Prokopy, Linda Stalker

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.11.030

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“…In such contexts, the ability of individuals and small, motivated groups to work together outside of the bounds of institutional support becomes even more important (Cleaver 2012). This highlights the importance of widely recognized relational enablers of collaboration such as trust (Hahn et al 2006, Patterson 2017, social networks and social capital (Pretty andSmith 2004, Church andProkopy 2017), and leadership (Hahn et al 2006, Church andProkopy 2017).…”

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“…The patchwork approach can be implemented, and the patchwork stitched together, through small local stewardship actions to bring people together in novel constellations. Collaboration can in fact "emerge" from such small-scale collective actions (Church andProkopy 2017, Patterson 2017), even if the social preconditions or enablers of collaboration do not exist in the first place (Babin et al 2016). Practitioners facilitating collaboration in multistakeholder, multiple-objective, contested landscapes should simultaneously support bottom-up collective action while developing mechanisms to support collaborative stewardship at the higher landscape level (Minang et al 2014b).…”

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“…Such formal institutions often focus on developing processes that lead stakeholders toward consensus on how natural resources should be managed (Ansell andGash 2007, Margerum andRobinson 2016b). Moreover, institutions in the form of formal agreements that provide incentives or contribute to costs of stewardship actions can also provide a sense of security for stewards expected to invest resources to change their farming practices (Church and Prokopy 2017). Structural conditions at a national level also influence how collaboration plays out, particularly in contexts of eroding formal governance and limited statehood (Ayala-Orozco et al 2018).…”

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Collaborative stewardship in multifunctional landscapes: toward relational, pluralistic approaches

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Landscape stewardship offers a means to put social-ecological approaches to stewardship into practice. The growing interest in landscape stewardship has led to a focus on multistakeholder collaboration. Although there is a significant body of literature on collaborative management and governance of natural resources, the particular challenges posed by multifunctional landscapes, in which there are often contested interests, require closer attention. We present a case study from South Africa to investigate how collaborative stewardship can be fostered in contested multifunctional landscapes. We conducted this research through an engaged transdisciplinary research partnership in which we integrated social-ecological practitioner and academic knowledge to gain an indepth understanding of the challenges of fostering collaboration. We identified five overarching factors that influence collaboration: contextual, institutional, social-relational, individual, and political-historical. Collaborative stewardship approaches focused on the development of formal governance institutions appear to be most successful if enabling individual and social-relational conditions are in place. Our case study, characterized by high social diversity, inequity, and contestation, suggests that consensus-driven approaches to collaboration are unlikely to result in equitable and sustainable landscape stewardship in such contexts. We therefore suggest an approach that focuses on enhancing individual and social-relational enablers. Moreover, we propose a bottom-up patchwork approach to collaborative stewardship premised on the notion of pluralism. This would focus on building new interpersonal relationships and collaborative capacity through small collective actions. Taking a relational, pluralistic approach to fostering collaborative stewardship is particularly important in contested, socially heterogeneous landscapes. Drawing on our study and the literature, we propose guiding principles for implementing relational, pluralistic approaches to collaborative stewardship and suggest future research directions for supporting such approaches.

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“…Increasingly, this concern is expressed through calls for regulatory and prescriptive approaches to achieving water quality goals. However, the agricultural sector prefers a voluntary approach to nutrient loss reduction (e.g., Church and Prokopy 2017), which producers believe allows for flexibility in land use decision making that acknowledges variation in different farming operations.…”

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The Beargrass Story: Utilizing Social Science to Evaluate and Learn from the “Watershed Approach”

Church

Babin

Bentlage³

et al. 2019

Contemporary Water Research

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This paper presents the case of a voluntary watershed project that addressed the need for improving water quality by reducing agricultural nutrient loss. The Beargrass Creek Watershed Approach Project in Wabash County, Indiana aimed to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve ambitious water quality goals and maximize the effectiveness of conservation funding through locally‐led efforts that bring together multiple stakeholders throughout the process. The project focused on implementing the “right practices” in the “right places” through a goal‐oriented, science‐based, and locally‐adapted approach to voluntary conservation. We examine and evaluate all three phases of the project and discuss successes and lessons learned from the point of view of both agricultural producers and agency staff from the local Soil and Water Conservation District and the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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“…However, the cooperation of each community varied since there were differences in terms of the recognition of values, knowledge, perceptions of people in each community, and related scientists and organizations on water management. Church and Prokopy (2017) conducted the study on the influence of society which acted as the way to conserve the watersheds by drawing on the success of water management of Indian Creek, Illinois, USA. Based on the study, the main factors that led to the success of the water management were 1) basic condition of the community, people's lifestyles, and water problems of the community, 2) activities or projects that would act as stimulus, including funds, regulations, and organizations, and 3) The overall responses of the activities or projects that stimulated the conservation of watersheds.…”

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History of Water Resources Development and Water Resources Management in Thailand

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Tana

Wannasubchae

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The influence of social criteria in mobilizing watershed conservation efforts: A case study of a successful watershed in the Midwestern U.S

Cited by 22 publications

References 55 publications

Collaborative stewardship in multifunctional landscapes: toward relational, pluralistic approaches

Collaborative stewardship in multifunctional landscapes: toward relational, pluralistic approaches

The Beargrass Story: Utilizing Social Science to Evaluate and Learn from the “Watershed Approach”

History of Water Resources Development and Water Resources Management in Thailand

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