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Reconciling multiple societal objectives in cross-scale marine governance: Solomon Islands’ engagement in the Coral Triangle Initiative
Type: Journal Article
Environmental governance aims to reconcile an expanding set of societal objectives at ever-larger scales despite the challenges that remain in integrating conservation and development at smaller scales. The authors examine ...
The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance
Type: Journal Article
Failure to address unsustainable global change is often attributed to failures in conventional environmental governance. Polycentric environmental governance—the popular alternative—involves many centres of authority ...
Identifying opportunities to improve governance of aquatic agricultural systems through participatory action research
Type: Journal Article
Challenges of governance often constitute critical obstacles to efforts to equitably improve livelihoods in social-ecological systems. Yet, just as often, these challenges go unspoken, or are viewed as fixed parts of the ...
Understanding leadership in the environmental sciences
Type: Journal Article
Leadership is often assumed, intuitively, to be an important driver of sustainable development. To understand how leadership is conceptualized and analyzed in the environmental sciences and to discover what this research ...
Rights, equity and justice: A diagnostic for social meta-norm diffusion in environmental governance
Type: Journal Article
Social meta-norms, including human rights, gender equality, equity and environmental justice, are mainstream principles of good environmental governance. The permeation of social meta-norms through global environmental ...
Multi-scale policy diffusion and translation in Pacific Island coastal fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Multilateral consensus forged among heads of states must be value-additive and relevant at the national level to facilitate on-ground implementation. Yet, despite general optimism and advances in policy understanding, ...
A framework to guide research engagement in the policy process, with application to small-scale fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Research-engaged decision making and policy reform processes are critical to advancing resilience, adaptation, and transformation in social-ecological systems under stress. Here we propose a new conceptual framework to ...
Governance of aquatic agricultural systems: Analyzing representation, power, and accountability
Type: Journal Article
Aquatic agricultural systems in developing countries face increasing competition from multiple stakeholders over rights to access and use natural resources, land, water, wetlands, and fisheries, essential to rural livelihoods. ...
The Pacific Ways: The geography, histories and cultures of the Pacific island region, and its 14 small island developing states, represent unique challenges and opportunities
Type: Journal Article
This article argues that the geography, histories and cultures of the Pacific island region, and its 14 small island developing states, represent unique challenges and opportunities. It notes that the introduction of the ...
Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation
Type: Journal Article
Leadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the "crisis of governance" facing the Earths natural systems. While political, economic, and corporate discourses of leadership have been widely and critically ...