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- Title
Actor network analysis to leverage improvements in conservation and development outcomes in Cambodia.
- Authors
Riggs, Rebecca A.; Langston, James D.; Phann, Sithan
- Abstract
Network analysis has emerged as a useful practice for characterizing governance relationships and providing insights to the power relations that affect landscapes. We applied actor network analysis in two rural Cambodian landscapes to examine decisionmaking structures that affect conservation and development systems. Using questionnaire data, we analyze structural features of networks of cooperation and exchange to identify patterns of action and processes of change. We supplement our analysis with qualitative information gathered on power and social-ecological components of landscapes to enrich our understanding of natural resource systems. We find that power in Cambodia is concentrated in a central hierarchy, and external actors aiming to influence decision making would benefit from operating at multiple scales; there is no single leverage point for interventions. Cooperation between conservation and development actors is lacking; we observe that actors tend to cluster within similar groups. Cross-sectoral collaboration may be enhanced by knowledge brokers, but current actors lack resources to fulfil this role and require external support. Our study highlights the importance of nongovernment actors as conveners and facilitators to shape natural resource governance in the context of weak institutions. We advocate more institutionalized use of diagnostics, such as actor network analysis, for enhanced natural resource governance.
- Subjects
CAMBODIA; NATURAL resources; SYSTEMS development; POWER (Social sciences); NONRENEWABLE natural resources
- Publication
Ecology & Society, 2020, Vol 25, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1708-3087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5751/ES-11854-250428