Monitoring the Governance Dimension of Natural Resource Co-management

Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

Cundill, Georgina¹ 

关键词: adaptive capacity;    adaptive co-management;    governance;    monitoring;    self-organization;    social capital;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-03346-150115

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Resilience Alliance Publications

【 摘 要 】

The governance outcomes of natural resource co-management have been neither systematically monitored nor rigorously assessed. We identified system attributes and key variables that could form the basis for monitoring the governance dimension of adaptive co-management. A methodology for collaboratively monitoring these system attributes and key variables was tested in four localities in South Africa.Our results suggest that creating the conditions that facilitate self-organization, and particularly cross-scale institutional linkages, is the major challenge facing attempts to initiate adaptive co-management. Factors requiring greater attention include community perceptions of support from outside agencies, access to long-term funding for adaptive decision making, and access to reliable information about changes in natural resources and legal options for the formation of decision-making bodies. Long-term and well-funded social facilitation is key to achieving this.

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