Adaptive governance of recreational ecosystem services following a major hurricane

Within the context of Mozambique, this paper examines the state of forest ecosystem services, the dependency of the population on these systems for their well-being, if an adaptive governance regime is being created which will ensure the resilience of the forest ecosystem services including the legal framework, the institutions operating within this framework, the tools available and their functioning, and how cooperative governance is operating.

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Interdependent Social-Ecological Systems and Adaptive Governance for Ecosystem Services

The SAGE Handbook of Environment and Society ◽

10.4135/9781848607873.n37 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 536-552 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Carl Folke ◽

Johan Colding ◽

Per Olsson ◽

Thomas Hahn

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

Adaptive Governance ◽

Social Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological

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Adaptive governance, ecosystem management, and natural capital

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.1406493112 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 112 (24) ◽

pp. 7369-7374 ◽

Cited By ~ 108

Author(s):

Lisen Schultz ◽

Carl Folke ◽

Henrik Österblom ◽

Per Olsson

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Ecosystem Management ◽

Gulf Of Maine ◽

Natural Capital ◽

Sustainable Use ◽

Natura 2000 ◽

Adaptive Governance ◽

Governance System ◽

Governance Systems ◽

Global Impacts

To gain insights into the effects of adaptive governance on natural capital, we compare three well-studied initiatives; a landscape in Southern Sweden, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, and fisheries in the Southern Ocean. We assess changes in natural capital and ecosystem services related to these social–ecological governance approaches to ecosystem management and investigate their capacity to respond to change and new challenges. The adaptive governance initiatives are compared with other efforts aimed at conservation and sustainable use of natural capital: Natura 2000 in Europe, lobster fisheries in the Gulf of Maine, North America, and fisheries in Europe. In contrast to these efforts, we found that the adaptive governance cases developed capacity to perform ecosystem management, manage multiple ecosystem services, and monitor, communicate, and respond to ecosystem-wide changes at landscape and seascape levels with visible effects on natural capital. They enabled actors to collaborate across diverse interests, sectors, and institutional arrangements and detect opportunities and problems as they developed while nurturing adaptive capacity to deal with them. They all spanned local to international levels of decision making, thus representing multilevel governance systems for managing natural capital. As with any governance system, internal changes and external drivers of global impacts and demands will continue to challenge the long-term success of such initiatives.

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Addressing Uncertainty of Environmental Governance in Environmentally Sensitive Areas in Developing Countries: A Precise-Strike and Spatial-Targeting Adaptive Governance Framework

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11164510 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (16) ◽

pp. 4510

Author(s):

Xiaohui Ding ◽

Chen Zhou ◽

Weizhou Zhong ◽

Pingping Tang

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Ecosystem Services ◽

Regional Development ◽

Environmental Governance ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Adaptive Governance ◽

Ecosystem Services Value ◽

Environmentally Sensitive Areas ◽

Regional Institution ◽

Environmentally Sensitive

Endowed with distinctive natural ecosystems and abundant biodiversity, regional environmental governance in developing countries, especially the environmentally sensitive areas (ESAs), is facing the daunting task to ultimately divert their regional development mode towards sustainable fashion through governance transition. However, given their less-developed status in particular expressed by under-developed economies, unsound political regimes, low governance capacity, such task seemingly insurmountable. In order to approach the incompatibility between economic development and maintenance of the ecosystem services value, and understand the complex and interlocked nature of the regional institution system of ESAs in developing countries, an ecosystem services value-based adaptive governance model was introduced to identify the deficiencies and failures of existing regional environmental governance and establish innovative arenas and transition agendas for innovating and reframing regional institutions and modifying role of regional actor groups and governance mode in the process of decision making on environmental issues. Such approaches were conducted in a circular diverting process in order to facilitate the mode of regional development transforming towards sustainable development. For demonstration the process of application and effectiveness of this methodology, a case study was conducted in a typical ESAs—the Water Source Area of the Middle Route Project of the South–North Water Diversion Project in China. Through integrating the ecosystem services value (ESV) assessment into a wider framework of institutional change, the regional institution system innovation and reformation was directed by taking the ESV changes and pattern of its geo-distribution in the research area as indicators or clues. Compared with traditional proposals for administrative change, the methodology proposed in this study was not prescriptive or directive: Rather, an approach for influencing the direction and speed of transition through a series of steering and coordination mechanism. Therefore, this model is with the potential to be implemented by local communities in regions, especially ESAs in developing countries, to encounter with similar regional development challenges and complex, interlocking, and over-dated regional institutional system associated with environmental issues.

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