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Journal / article | 2014
Stöhr, C., C. Lundholm, B. Crona, I. Chabay. 2014. Stakeholder participation and sustainable fisheries: An integrative framework for assessing adaptive comanagement processes. Ecology and Society 19(3): 14.
Adaptive comanagement (ACM) has been suggested as the way to successfully achieve sustainable environmental governance. Despite excellent research, the field still suffers from underdeveloped frameworks of causality. To address this issue, we suggest a framework that integrates the structural frame of Plummer and Fitzgibbons' "adaptive comanagement" with the specific process characteristics of Senecah's "Trinity of Voice." T...
von Heland, F., B.I. Crona, P. Fidelman. 2014. Mediating science and action across multiple boundaries in the Coral Triangle. Global Environmental Change 29: 53-64
This study seeks to refine literature on boundary work by exploring how stakeholders in the Coral Triangle Initiative, an international agreement between six countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, are forging relations across various domains and governance levels, and the outcomes of this process. We do this in an effort to increase its relevance to multi-level environmental governance, and understand the challenges that...
Paper | 2014
Plummer, R., L. Schultz, D. Armitage, Ö. Bodin, B. Crona, J. Baird 2014. Developing a diagnostic approach for adaptive co-management and considering its implementation in biosphere reserves. Beijer Discussion Paper, 245, 1-10
Innovative approaches are required to address the sustainability of ecosystems and human wellbeing. Adaptive co-management (ACM) is emerging as such an approach because it nurtures resilience and provides an arena to address the complexity and uncertainty that characterize socialecological systems. The literature on adaptive co-management reveals considerable variation in how it is defined and operationalized, a limited basi...
Bodin, B., B. Crona, M. Thyresson, A.-L. Golz, M. Tengö 2014. Conservation Success as a Function of Good Alignment of Social and Ecological Structures and Processes. Conservation Biology, online, DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12306
How to create and adjust governing institutions so that they align (fit) with complex ecosystem processes and structures across scales is an issue of increasing concern in conservation. It is argued that lack of such social-ecological fit makes governance and conservation difficult, yet progress in explicitly defining and rigorously testing what constitutes a good fit has been limited. We used a novel modeling approach and d...
Galaz, V., Österblom, H., Bodin, Ö., Crona, B. 2014. Global networks and global change-induced tipping points. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 1573-1553, 10.1007/s10784-014-9253-6
The existence of “tipping points” in human–environmental systems at multiple scales—such as abrupt negative changes in coral reef ecosystems, “runaway” climate change, and interacting nonlinear “planetary boundaries”—is often viewed as a substantial challenge for governance due to their inherent uncertainty, potential for rapid and large system change, and possible cascading effects on human well-being. Despite an i...
Journal / article | 2013
Sandström, A., B. Crona, Ö. Bodin. 2013. Legitimacy in Co-Management: The Impact of Preexisting Structures, Social Networks and Governance Strategies, Environmental Policy and Governance :n/a-n/a, doi:10.1002/eet.1633
With the ambition to contribute to the endeavour of co-management, this paper focuses on the critical aspect of legitimacy and sets out to explain stakeholder acceptance in natural resource governance. A comparative study of five coastal and marine areas in Sweden is conducted. The empirical results demonstrate, first, how the past and the present institutional landscape set the underlying conditions and affect stakeholders' a...
Westley, F. R., O. Tjornbo, L. Schultz, P. Olsson, C. Folke, B. Crona and Ö. Bodin. 2013. A theory of transformative agency in linked social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 18(3): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05072-180327
We reviewed the literature on leadership in linked social-ecological systems and combined it with the literature on institutional entrepreneurship in complex adaptive systems to develop a new theory of transformative agency in linked social-ecological systems. Although there is evidence of the importance of strategic agency in introducing innovation and transforming approaches to management and governance of such systems, ther...
Crona, B.I, Wutich, A., Brewis, A., Gartin, M. 2013. Perceptions of climate change: Linking local and global perceptions through a cultural knowledge approach. Climatic Change XX:xx-xx doi: 10.1007/s10584-013-0708-5
Understanding public perceptions of climate change is fundamental to both climate science and policy because it defines local and global socio-political contexts within which policy makers and scientists operate. To date, most studies addressing climate change perceptions have been place-based. While such research is informative, comparative studies across sites are important for building generalized theory around why and how ...
Journal / article | 2012
Thyresson, M., Crona, B., Nyström, M., de la Torre-Castro, M., Jiddawi, N. 2012. Tracing value chains to understand effects of trade on coral reef fish in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Marine Policy, 38, 246-256
Coral reef fish are an important source of food security and income for human coastal populations. They also underpin ecosystem processes vital for the future ability of coral reefs to generate ecological goods and services. Identifying socio-economic drivers behind the exploitation of fish that uphold these key ecosystem processes and the scales at which they operate is therefore critical for successful management. This stu...
Crona, B.I., Parker, J.N. 2012. Learning in support of governance: theories, methods and a framework to assess how bridging organizations contribute to adaptive resource governance. Ecology and Society, 17(1), 32
Humanity faces increasingly intractable environmental problems characterized by high uncertainty, complexity, and swift change. Natural resource governance must therefore involve continuous production and use of new knowledge to adapt to highly complex, rapidly changing social-ecological systems to ensure long-term sustainable development. Bridging and boundary organizations have been proposed as potentially powerful means o...
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