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The unique role of municipalities in integrated watershed governance arrangements: a new research frontier

Mancilla García, M., J. Hileman, Ö. Bodin, A. Nilsson and P. Jacobi.

2019 - Journal / article

 Local governments, or municipalities, play a key role in water governance around the world owing to the many administrative competencies they hold, ranging from water service delivery to urban planning. However, the ability of municipalities to carry out their competencies effectively depends in large part on the characteristics of the institutional arrangements in which they are embedded. In particular, the relationship betw...

Participatory Water Basin Councils in Peru and Brazil: Expert discourses as means and barriers to inclusion

García, M.M, Bodin, Ö.

2019 - Journal / article

In the last twenty years, participatory forums have been increasingly used to manage water basins around the world. The implementation of participatory forums has sought to prevent and overcome conflicts by bringing together a multiplicity of stakeholders in joint efforts to deliberate, achieve mutually agreed upon decisions, and distribute limited water resources. Different literature streams have evaluated the benefits and c...

Participation in Multiple Decision Making Water Governance Forums in Brazil Enhances Actors’ Perceived Level of Influence

Mancilla García, M. and Bodin, Ö.

2018 - Journal / article

The Ecology of Games Framework (EGF) draws attention to the intertwined nature of different forums in a given policy setting and how this affects governance outcomes. In this article, we associate the EGF with the literature on power asymmetries, in order to investigate hypotheses of actors’ perceived level of influence in a forum. Focusing on the Paraíba do Sul river basin committee in Brazil, we specifically explore actors’ ...

Cascading regime shifts within and across scales

Rocha, JC, Peterson, G, Bodin, Ö, and Levin, S.

2018 - Journal / article

Regime shifts are large, abrupt, and persistent critical transitions in the function and structure of ecosystems. Yet, it is unknown how these transitions will interact, whether the occurrence of one will increase the likelihood of another or simply correlate at distant places. We explored two types of cascading effects: Domino effects create one-way dependencies, whereas hidden feedbacks produce two-way interactions. We compa...