Social Networks and Natural Resource Management Uncovering the Social Fabric of Environmental Governance
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Case studies
- 4 Barriers and opportunities in transforming to sustainable governance: the role of key individuals
- 5 Social network analysis for stakeholder selection and the links to social learning and adaptive co-management
- 6 Who and how: engaging well-connected fishers in social networks to improve fisheries management and conservation
- 7 The effects of social network ties on the public’s satisfaction with forest management in British Columbia, Canada
- 8 Social network models for natural resource use and extraction
- 9 Friends or neighbors? Subgroup heterogeneity and the importance of bonding and bridging ties in natural resource governance
- 10 The role of individual attributes in the practice of information sharing among fishers from Loreto, BCS, Mexico
- 11 Transformative collective action: a network approach to transformative change in ecosystem-based management
- 12 Social networks, joint image building, and adaptability: the case of local fishery management
- 13 Agrarian communication networks: consequences for agroforestry
- Part III Summary and outlook
- Index
- References
4 - Barriers and opportunities in transforming to sustainable governance: the role of key individuals
from Part II - Case studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Case studies
- 4 Barriers and opportunities in transforming to sustainable governance: the role of key individuals
- 5 Social network analysis for stakeholder selection and the links to social learning and adaptive co-management
- 6 Who and how: engaging well-connected fishers in social networks to improve fisheries management and conservation
- 7 The effects of social network ties on the public’s satisfaction with forest management in British Columbia, Canada
- 8 Social network models for natural resource use and extraction
- 9 Friends or neighbors? Subgroup heterogeneity and the importance of bonding and bridging ties in natural resource governance
- 10 The role of individual attributes in the practice of information sharing among fishers from Loreto, BCS, Mexico
- 11 Transformative collective action: a network approach to transformative change in ecosystem-based management
- 12 Social networks, joint image building, and adaptability: the case of local fishery management
- 13 Agrarian communication networks: consequences for agroforestry
- Part III Summary and outlook
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
There are numerous examples of successful natural resource management. Some of the more notable and well documented include mountain agriculture in the Swiss alps (Ostrom, 1990), irrigation systems in different parts of the world (Ostrom, 1990), Kristianstad Water Kingdom in Sweden (Olsson et al., 2004b; Schultz, 2009), and the Maine lobster fishery (Acheson, 1988). However, in many settings, governance for sustainable resource management remains an elusive goal and the current state of affairs is characterized by rigidity and inertia. This is sometimes a result of power struggles and elite capture (Barratt, 2009), but also because of lack of incentives and poor problem perception (Crona and Bodin, 2006; Bodin and Crona, 2008) or failure of top-down regulatory mechanisms (Ostrom, 1990). Transforming a system experiencing such inertia can be difficult and, among other things, requires appropriate leadership. The process of change has been likened to navigating turbulent rapids (Olsson et al., 2006) and the role of leadership has been hailed as one of the key factors in enabling transformation.
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