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- Title
Connectivité et gouvernance des systèmes socio-écologiques multiniveaux : le rôle du capital social.
- Authors
Brondizio, Eduardo S.; Ostromf, Elinor; Young, Oran R.
- Abstract
In the context of globalization and global climate change, we discuss the challenges of environmental governance created by the increasing functional connectivity of resource-use systems and ecosystems. Using the example of the Xingu Indigenous Park and its surrounding agribusiness complex in Brazil, we speak to cases and similar problems worldwide, particularly in areas experiencing fast expansion of agropastoral systems, intensive resource exploitation, and increasing overlap of diverse institutional arrangements regulating resource ownership and use. Although indigenous groups within the park have developed strong institutions to monitor its border successfully, rampant deforestation outside the park, and around the headwaters of the massive Xingu River watershed which cuts it, has systemically undermined the park's environment causing water pollution, soil erosion, and forest fire. We discuss the limitations of conserving "islands of resources" and consider the growing need for institutional connectivity and resource governance systems to function at multiple levels.
- Subjects
PARQUE Nacional do Xingu (Brazil); MULTI-level governance (Theory); RESOURCE management; CLIMATE change; WATER pollution; SOIL erosion
- Publication
Revue Management et Avenir, 2013, Issue 65, p108
- ISSN
1768-5958
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3917/mav.065.0108