Performance of community-based natural resource governance for the Kafue Flats (Zambia)

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
BIMO A. NKHATA ◽  
CHARLES M. BREEN
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Community Based ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Natural Resource Governance ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Practical Experiences

SUMMARYThe performance obstacles surrounding community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in southern Africa have much to do with understanding of environmental governance systems and how these are devolved. CBNRM appears to be failing because of flawed environmental governance systems compounded by their ineffective devolution. A case study in Zambia is used to illustrate why and how one CBNRM scheme for the most part faltered. It draws on practical experiences involving the devolution of decision-making and benefit-distribution processes on a floodplain wetland known as the Kafue Flats. While this CBNRM scheme was designed to facilitate the devolution of key components of an environmental governance system, the resultant efforts were largely unsuccessful because of the poor social relationships between government actors and local rural communities. It is argued that in Zambia, at least from an environmental governance system perspective, CBNRM has mostly failed. While generally bringing some marginal improvements to local communities, the construction and execution of an effective environmental governance system have been largely flawed.

scholarly journals Critical analysis of the governance of the Sainte Luce Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA), southeast Madagascar

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Long ◽  
Grace Thurlow ◽  
Peter JS Jones ◽  
Andrew Turner ◽  
Sylvestre Randrianantenaina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Marine Area ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Natural Resource Governance ◽  
Over Exploitation

The Marine Protected Area Governance (MPAG) framework is applied to critically assess the governance of the Sainte Luce Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA), southeast Madagascar. Madagascar experiences rapid population growth, widespread poverty, corruption and political instability, which hinders natural resource governance. Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has been repeatedly employed to circumvent the lack of state capacity. This includes the LMMA model, which has rapidly proliferated, represented by MIHARI, Madagascar's LMMA network. The lobster fishing is the primary source of income for households in the impoverished community of Sainte Luce, one of the key landing sites in the regional export industry. However, fishers, industry actors and available data suggest a significant decline of local and regional stocks, likely due to over-exploitation driven by poverty and migration. In 2013, SEED Madagascar a UK NGO, worked to establish community-based fishery management in Sainte Luce, setting up a local management committee, which introduced a periodic no take zone (NTZ). Despite the community's efforts and some significant achievements, the efficacy of management is limited. To date, limited state support and the lack of engagement by actors throughout the value chain have hampered effective governance. The study reinforces the finding that resilient governance relies on a diversity of actors and the incentives they collectively employ. Here and elsewhere, there is a limit to what can be achieved by bottom-up approaches in isolation. Resilient management of marine resources in Madagascar relies on improving the capacity of community, state, NGO and industry actors to collectively govern resources.

Bourdieu in the North: Practical Understanding in Natural Resource Governance

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken J. Caine
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
Natural Resource Governance ◽  
The North ◽  
Resource Managers

Natural resource management (NRM) analyses often avoid understanding environmental governance as arising from and shaped by social practices and power relations in resource conflicts, contested property rights, and political-economic strategies. I examine a northern Canadian Aboriginal community’s experience of a structured yet dynamic socio-cultural response to a period of social and political change. Drawing from Pierre Bourdieu’s conception of social practice I suggest that a diffuse, or less-determinist, theory of practice may help explain how power relations are interwoven throughout yet applied differentially in NRM governance. Drawing on ethnographic research on northern watershed management and protection of Aboriginal cultural landscapes, I propose the notion of practical understanding to explain the ways government resource managers and community leaders challenge and negotiate one another’s conceptions of environmental governance in a duel process of cooperation-conflict.

scholarly journals Application of the governance disruptions framework to German agricultural soil policy

SOIL ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 495-509
Author(s):  
Bartosz Bartkowski ◽  
Stephan Bartke ◽  
Nina Hagemann ◽  
Bernd Hansjürgens ◽  
Christoph Schröter-Schlaack
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Soil ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Natural Resource Governance ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Holistic Analysis

Abstract. Governance of natural resources is inherently complex and requires navigating trade-offs at multiple dimensions. In this paper, we present and operationalize the “governance disruptions framework” (GDF) as a tool for holistic analysis of natural resource governance systems. For each of the four dimensions of the framework (target adequacy, object adequacy, instrument adequacy, and behavioural adequacy), we formulate guiding questions to be used when applying the framework to particular governance systems. We then demonstrate the use of GDF by applying it to the core of German agricultural soil policy. We show that for each framework dimension, the governance system exhibits deficits, particularly with respect to object adequacy and instrument adequacy. Furthermore, we use the GDF-based analysis to highlight research gaps. We find that stakeholder analyses are a central gap across GDF dimensions.

scholarly journals Application of the Governance Disruptions Framework to German agricultural soil policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartosz Bartkowski ◽  
Stephan Bartke ◽  
Nina Hagemann ◽  
Bernd Hansjürgens ◽  
Christoph Schröter-Schlaack
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Soil ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Natural Resource Governance ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Holistic Analysis

Abstract. Governance of natural resources is inherently complex and requires navigating trade-offs at multiple dimensions. In this paper, we present and operationalize the Governance Disruptions Framework (GDF) as a tool for holistic analysis of natural resource governance systems. For each of the four dimensions of the framework (target adequacy, object adequacy, instrument adequacy, and behavioural adequacy) we formulate guiding questions, to be used when applying the framework to particular governance systems. We then demonstrate the use of GDF by applying it to the core of German agricultural soil policy. We show that for each framework dimension, the governance system exhibits deficits, particularly with respect to object adequacy and instrument adequacy. Furthermore, we use the GDF-based analysis to highlight research gaps. We find that stakeholder analyses are a central gap across GDF dimensions.

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