Introduction: Public–Private Relations and Key Policy Issues in Natural Resource Governance

2013 ◽  
pp. 19-36
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Natural Resource Governance ◽  
Key Policy

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.

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.

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