Interactive Governance for Sustainable Resource Use and Environmental Management: A Case Study of Yaman ng Lawa Initiative in the Laguna Lake Watershed, Philippines

2019 ◽  
pp. 155-173
Author(s):  
Tadayoshi Masuda
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Interactive Governance ◽  
Sustainable Resource Use ◽  
Laguna Lake

Assessment of the quality of farmers’ environmental management and its effects on resource use efficiency: a Dutch case study

2003 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.J. de Koeijer ◽  
G.A.A. Wossink ◽  
A.B. Smit ◽  
S.R.M. Janssens ◽  
J.A. Renkema ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
Use Efficiency

Integrated environmental management of transboundary transitional waters: Curonian Lagoon case study

2014 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 14-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramūnas Povilanskas ◽  
Artūras Razinkovas-Baziukas ◽  
Egidijus Jurkus
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Curonian Lagoon ◽  
Transitional Waters ◽  
Integrated Environmental Management

scholarly journals Emergent sustainability in open property regimes

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (51) ◽  
pp. 12859-12867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Moritz ◽  
Roy Behnke ◽  
Christine M. Beitl ◽  
Rebecca Bliege Bird ◽  
Rafael Morais Chiaravalloti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Common Pool Resources ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Sustainable Resource Use ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Property Regimes

Current theoretical models of the commons assert that common-pool resources can only be managed sustainably with clearly defined boundaries around both communities and the resources that they use. In these theoretical models, open access inevitably leads to a tragedy of the commons. However, in many open-access systems, use of common-pool resources seems to be sustainable over the long term (i.e., current resource use does not threaten use of common-pool resources for future generations). Here, we outline the conditions that support sustainable resource use in open property regimes. We use the conceptual framework of complex adaptive systems to explain how processes within and couplings between human and natural systems can lead to the emergence of efficient, equitable, and sustainable resource use. We illustrate these dynamics in eight case studies of different social–ecological systems, including mobile pastoralism, marine and freshwater fisheries, swidden agriculture, and desert foraging. Our theoretical framework identifies eight conditions that are critical for the emergence of sustainable use of common-pool resources in open property regimes. In addition, we explain how changes in boundary conditions may push open property regimes to either common property regimes or a tragedy of the commons. Our theoretical model of emergent sustainability helps us to understand the diversity and dynamics of property regimes across a wide range of social–ecological systems and explains the enigma of open access without a tragedy. We recommend that policy interventions in such self-organizing systems should focus on managing the conditions that are critical for the emergence and persistence of sustainability.

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