Systems Approaches Enable Improved Collaboration in Two Regional Australian Natural Resource Governance Situations

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moragh Mackay ◽  
Catherine Allan ◽  
Ross Colliver ◽  
Jonathon Howard
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Natural Resource Governance ◽  
Collaborative Processes

Natural Resource Management (NRM) in Australia is socially and ecologically complex, uncertain and contested. Government and non-government stakeholders act and collaborate in regionally-based, multi-scale NRM governance situations, but imbalances in power and breakdowns in trust constrain transparency and equity. Here, we report on an action research project exploring the potential of social learning to contribute to systemic change in multi-governance situations. We sought to understand practices and institutional arrangements in two regional NRM governance case studies in southern Victoria, Australia. Drawing on this research, we explore how social learning, with its foundation of systems thinking, has enabled improved collaborative processes and adaptive governance to emerge.

Political Settlements, Natural Resource Extraction, and Inclusion in Bolivia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Bebbington ◽  
Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai ◽  
Denise Humphreys Bebbington ◽  
Marja Hinfelaar ◽  
Cynthia A. Sanborn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Central State ◽  
Dominant Party ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Natural Resource Extraction ◽  
Natural Resource Governance ◽  
Holding Power ◽  
Resource Nationalism ◽  
Economic Elite ◽  
Competing Interest

Bolivia’s natural resources have served as a ‘mechanism of trade’ mobilized by competing interest groups to build coalitions, create political pacts, and negotiate political settlements in which dominant actors attempt to win over those resistant to a particular vision of development and/or governance. These pacts and settlements are revisited constantly, reflecting the weak and fragmented power of the central state and of the elite and persistent tensions between national and subnational elites. Ideas about, and modes of, natural resource governance have been central to periods of instability and stability, and to significant periods of political rupture. The period since 2006 has been characterized by a stable settlement involving an alliance between the presidency, his dominant party, and national social movements. This settlement is sustained through bargains with parts of the economic elite and subnational actors with holding power, as well as through ideas of resource nationalism and state-led developmentalism.

Common-Pool Resource Management

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan A. Oldekop ◽  
Reem Hajjar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Natural Resource Governance ◽  
Development Approach

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) initiatives aim to link socioeconomic development with sustainable natural resource use and the conservation of biodiversity of natural resources. CBNRM relies on the concept that rights, responsibilities, and authority for natural resource management decisions should rest with local communities; the decentralization of natural resource management is central to a rights-based sustainable development approach. Despite a global push to decentralize natural resource governance over the past two decades, many initiatives have failed to reach their intended goals. Much research has focused on identifying the kinds of enabling conditions and accompanying institutional arrangements needed to promote collective action (investing) and reduce free riding (exploitation) to bring about more sustainable and equitable management of shared resources. This chapter reviews the theory and conditions thought to aid and allow communities collectively to manage resources more equitably and sustainably. Management of community forests is used to explore current knowledge gaps and what these represent for sustainable development interventions.

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