Understanding the context of multifaceted collaborations for social-ecological sustainability: a methodology for cross-case analysis

Ecology and Society

Rosemary Hill¹  Cathy Robinson²  Gustavo A. García-López³  Jean Lee⁴  Cecile Barnaud⁵  Gladman Thondhlana⁶  Jessica Cockburn⁶  Chanda L. Meek⁷  Steven M. Alexander⁸  Eureta Rosenberg⁹  Chinwe Ifejika Speranza^1,10  Georgina Cundill^1,11  Jaime A. Aburto^1,12  Jacopo A. Baggio^1,13  Michael Schoon^1,14  Marina Garcia Llorente^1,15  Lisen Schultz^1,16  Mollie Chapman^1,17 

[1] CSIRO Land and Water, Cairns, Australia;CSIRO Land and Water, Dutton Park, Australia;Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA;DYNAFOR, Université de Toulouse, INPT, INRAE, Toulouse, France;Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa;Department of Political Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska, USA;Environmental Change and Governance Group, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;Environmental Learning Research Centre, Department of Education, Rhodes University, Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa;Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland;International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;Millennium Nucleus for Ecology and Sustainable Management of Oceanic Islands (ESMOI), Departamento Biología Marina, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile;School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA;School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA;Social-Ecological Systems Lab, Ecology Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain;Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden;University of Zurich, Department of Geography and University Research Priority Program Global Change and Biodiversity, Zurich, Switzerland;

关键词: collaboration;    complexity;    conservation;    context-mechanism-outcome;    critical realist methodology;    governance;    natural resource management;    realist evaluation;    social-ecological systems;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-11527-250307

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

There are limited approaches available that enable researchers and practitioners to conduct multiple case study comparisons of complex cases of collaboration in natural resource management and conservation. The absence of such tools is felt despite the fact that over the past several years a great deal of literature has reviewed the state of the science regarding collaboration. Much of this work is based on case studies of collaboration and highlights the importance of contextual variables, further complicating efforts to compare outcomes across case-study areas and the likely failure of approaches based on one size fits all generalizations. We expand on the standard overview of the field by identifying some of the challenges associated with managing complex systems with multiple resources, multiple stakeholder groups with diverse knowledges/understandings, and multiple objectives across multiple scales, i.e., multifaceted collaborative initiatives. We then elucidate how a realist methodology, within a critical realist framing, can support efforts to compare multiple case studies of such multifaceted initiatives. The methodology we propose considers the importance and impact of context for the origins, purpose, and success of multifaceted collaborative natural resource management and conservation initiatives in social-ecological systems.

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