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- Title
Monitoring the Governance Dimension of Natural Resource Co- management.
- Authors
Cundill, Georgina; Fabricius, Christo
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; NATURAL resources; SOCIAL capital; DECISION making; ECOLOGY
- Publication
Ecology & Society, 2010, Vol 15, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1708-3087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5751/ES-03346-150115