Conceptualizing, analyzing, and supporting stewardship: examining the role of civil society in environmental governance

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

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Michelle L. Johnson¹  Lindsay K. Campbell¹  Erika S. Svendsen¹ 

[1] USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, NYC Urban Field Station

关键词: environmental stewardship;    governance;    social-ecological systems;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-11970-250414

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Resilience Alliance Publications

【 摘 要 】

How can we better understand, recognize, and support the roleof local civic groups in environmental governance? Naturalresource management often begins with a perspective that focuseson public authorities’ formal jurisdictions and properties, e.g.,federal, state, and local agencies, as well as private propertyowners and the parcels they manage. Through research focusedon adaptation and collaboration in governance, environmentalgovernance is recognized to be composed of collaborativearrangements and polycentric networks of actors working acrosssectors and scales (Dietz et al. 2003, Folke et al. 2005, Sabatier etal. 2005, Koontz and Thomas 2006, Ostrom 2010, Connolly et al.2013; see also Davies 2011). At the local level, greater attentionis needed on the role of formal and informal civic actors in thesenetworks, not only as property owners or land managers, but asstewards who engage in acts of caretaking and claims-makingacross public and private lands (Barthel et al. 2005, Andersson etal. 2014). Recognition of the role local stewards play in urbanenvironmental governance (Colding et al. 2006) emerged from theconcept of adaptive comanagement (Olsson et al. 2004, Berkes2009), advanced as part of the Millennium EcosystemAssessment. At the same time, research focused on communitybased resource management in the United States expanded tofocus on urban ecosystem management (Burch and Grove 1993,Westphal 1993), with a focus on the civic sector (Svendsen andCampbell 2008). From these related branches of inquiry fromEurope and America, we find a larger universe of study thatexplores place-based stewardship as a critical component and,perhaps, an emergent driver of environmental governance andpractice.

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