Eufemia, Luca and Bonatti, Michelle and Sieber, Stefan and Schroeter, Barbara and Lana, Marcos
(2020).
Mechanisms of Weak Governance in Grasslands and Wetlands of South America.
Sustainability. 12
, 7214
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Abstract
Weak governance is a major threat to sustainable development, especially in rural contexts and within ecosystems of great social and economic value. To understand and compare its arrangement in the grasslands and wetlands of the Colombian Llanos and the Paraguayan Pantanal, we build upon the Institutional and Development Framework (IAD) as we explore the role of political, economic, and social institutions and combine components of the theory of common-pool resources (CPR) and new institutional economics (NIE). This hybrid conceptualization provides a synthesis of how top-down hierarchical and market-based systems of community-based and natural resource management negatively affect sustainable development in both study areas. Our findings suggest three underlying mechanisms causing a situation of weak governance: centralized (economic and political) power, the role of central and local governments, and social exclusion. Understanding these multidimensional contextual mechanisms improves the understanding that institutional structures supporting arrangements that handle grasslands and wetlands in a sustainable way are needed to protect the ecosystem's social and economic values, especially in rural and marginalized contexts.
Authors/Creators: | Eufemia, Luca and Bonatti, Michelle and Sieber, Stefan and Schroeter, Barbara and Lana, Marcos | ||||||
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Title: | Mechanisms of Weak Governance in Grasslands and Wetlands of South America | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2020 | ||||||
Volume: | 12 | ||||||
Article number: | 7214 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 23 | ||||||
ISSN: | 2071-1050 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Journal article | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 106 Biological Sciences (Medical to be 3 and Agricultural to be 4) > Ecology (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 105 Earth and Related Environmental Sciences > Environmental Sciences (social aspects to be 507) | ||||||
Keywords: | Colombia, common-pool resources, Orinoquia, Llanos Orientales, Pantanal, Paraguay | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-108122 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-108122 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 17826 | ||||||
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap | ||||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Crop Production Ecology | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 14 Oct 2020 17:00 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2021 19:20 |
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