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Coordinating invasive plant management among conservation and rural stakeholders
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 81, S. 247-255
ISSN: 0264-8377
Rural Change in Australia: Population, Economy, Environment, edited by RaeDufty‐Jones and JohnConnell, Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2014. 282 pp. $124.95 (cloth and ebook). ISBN: 9781409452041
In: Rural sociology, Band 80, Heft 3, S. 389-393
ISSN: 1549-0831
How Local Landholder Groups Collectively Manage Weeds in South-Eastern Australia
In: Environmental management: an international journal for decision makers, scientists, and environmental auditors, Band 60, Heft 3, S. 396-408
ISSN: 1432-1009
Green-changing: A research-based collaboration with a tree-changed rural community
In: Rural Society, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 256-265
ISSN: 2204-0536
Green-changing: A research-based collaboration with a tree-changed rural community
In: Rural society: the journal of research into rural social issues in Australia, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 256-265
ISSN: 1037-1656
Reducing social vulnerability to climate change: the role of microfinance organisations
In: Climate policy, S. 1-15
ISSN: 1752-7457
Grower attitudes and practices toward area-wide management of cropping weeds in Australia
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 137, S. 107001
ISSN: 0264-8377
The resident and visitor gaze: A comparison of coastal social values at risk due to sea-level rise
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 123, S. 202-209
ISSN: 1462-9011
Local values and fairness in climate change adaptation: Insights from marginal rural Australian communities
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 108, S. 332-343
The relevance of a coproductive capacity framework to climate change adaptation: investigating the health and water sectors in Cambodia
In: Ecology and society: E&S ; a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, Band 20, Heft 1
ISSN: 1708-3087
Advancing values-based approaches to climate change adaptation: A case study from Australia
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 76, S. 113-123
ISSN: 1462-9011
Opportunities for better use of collective action theory in research and governance for invasive species management
Controlling invasive species presents a public‐good dilemma. Although environmental, social, and economic benefits of control accrue to society, costs are borne by only a few individuals and organizations. For decades, policy makers have used incentives and sanctions to encourage or coerce individual actors to contribute to the public good, with limited success. Diverse, subnational efforts to collectively manage invasive plants, insects, and animals provide effective alternatives to traditional command‐and‐control approaches. Despite this work, there has been little systematic evaluation of collective efforts to determine whether there are consistent principles underpinning success. We reviewed 32 studies to identify the extent to which collective‐action theories from related agricultural and environmental fields explain collaborative invasive species management approaches; describe and differentiate emergent invasive species collective‐action efforts; and provide guidance on how to enable more collaborative approaches to invasive species management. We identified 4 types of collective action aimed at invasive species—externally led, community led, comanaged, and organizational coalitions—that provide blueprints for future invasive species management. Existing collective‐action theories could explain the importance attributed to developing shared knowledge of the social‐ecological system and the need for social capital. Yet, collection action on invasive species requires different types of monitoring, sanctions, and boundary definitions. We argue that future government policies can benefit from establishing flexible boundaries that encourage social learning and enable colocated individuals and organizations to identify common goals, pool resources, and coordinate efforts.
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Opportunities for better use of collective action theory in research and governance for invasive species management
Sònia Graham va finalitzar el seu treball quan treballava a l'ICTA, que ha col·laborat al seu finançament amb fons Maria de Maeztu. ; Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552 ; Controlling invasive species presents a public-good dilemma. Although environmental, social, and economic benefits of control accrue to society, costs are borne by only a few individuals and organizations. For decades, policy makers have used incentives and sanctions to encourage or coerce individual actors to contribute to the public good, with limited success. Diverse, subnational efforts to collectively manage invasive plants, insects, and animals provide effective alternatives to traditional command-and-control approaches. Despite this work, there has been little systematic evaluation of collective efforts to determine whether there are consistent principles underpinning success. We reviewed 32 studies to identify the extent to which collectiveaction theories from related agricultural and environmental fields explain collaborative invasive species management approaches; describe and differentiate emergent invasive species collective-action efforts; and provide guidance on how to enable more collaborative approaches to invasive species management. We identified 4 types of collective action aimed at invasive species-externally led, community led, comanaged, and organizational coalitions-that provide blueprints for future invasive species management. Existing collective-action theories could explain the importance attributed to developing shared knowledge of the socialecological system and the need for social capital. Yet, collection action on invasive species requires different types of monitoring, sanctions, and boundary definitions. We argue that future government policies can benefit from establishing flexible boundaries that encourage social learning and enable colocated individuals and organizations to identify common goals, pool resources, and coordinate efforts.
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Transdisciplinary weed research: new leverage on challenging weed problems?
Transdisciplinary weed research (TWR) is a promising path to more effective management of challenging weed problems. We define TWR as an integrated process of inquiry and action that addresses complex weed problems in the context of broader efforts to improve economic, environmental and social aspects of ecosystem sustainability. TWR seeks to integrate scholarly and practical knowledge across many stakeholder groups (e.g. scientists, private sector, farmers and extension officers) and levels (e.g. local, regional and landscape). Furthermore, TWR features democratic and iterative processes of decision-making and collective action that aims to align the interests, viewpoints and agendas of a wide range of stakeholders. The fundamental rationale for TWR is that many challenging weed problems (e.g. herbicide resistance or extensive plant invasions in natural areas) are better addressed systemically, as a part of broad-based efforts to advance ecosystem sustainability, rather than as isolated problems. Addressing challenging weed problems systemically can offer important new leverage on such problems, by creating new opportunities to manage their root causes and by improving complementarity between weed management and other activities. While promising, this approach is complicated by the multidimensional, multilevel, diversely defined and unpredictable nature of ecosystem sustainability. In practice, TWR can be undertaken as a cyclic process of (i) initial problem formulation, (ii) 'broadening' of the problem formulation and recruitment of stakeholder participants, (iii) deliberation, negotiation and design of an action agenda for systemic change, (iv) implementation action, (v) monitoring and assessment of outcomes and (vi) reformulation of the problem situation and renegotiation of further actions. Notably, 'purposive' disciplines (design, humanities and arts) have central, critical and recurrent roles in this process, as do integrative analyses of relevant multidimensional and multilevel factors, via multiple ...
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