Environmental Governance and its impactions for Conservation Practice (Armitage et al.) Flashcards
What are the 3 focuses of Conservation Practice?
- Permit Scientists and managers to participate more effectively in real-world conservation initiatives.
- Encourage reflection on the assumptions and values that frame their own role in conservation initiatives.
- Further recognize how conservation occurs in a contested and power-laden social context
Describe the pathology of natural resource management?
Command and control management has reaped benefits of ecosystem services (Provisioning and regulating services).
What are the two kinds of costs for natural resource management?
Social costs (Conflict, enforcement) and Environmental Costs (Decline in biodiversity, productivity, etc.)
What kind of management has reaped the benefits of ecosystem services? ***
Command and Control Management
What does it mean by Command and Control Management?
We tend to hold ecosystems at a certain stage in their development to prove beneficial for human use, intensively manage and control normal ecological succession processes.
What has become a key concern with natural resource management? ***
How decisions are made and by whom
Define Management:
Operational decision for specific outcomes
Define Governance
Broad processes and institutions (Norms, rights) societies use to make decisions
Are management and governance the same?
No
What are some commonalities between Management and Governance?
- Deliberation
- Negotiation
- Uncertainty
What must scientists and managers recognize about governance?
That it can refer to a set of arrangements but can also be used as an analytical lens to understand how to achieve conservation outcomes.
What are the 8 ways to encourage links among science, public, and policy actors for improved conservation management? (DRTRNCJC)
- Dialogue
- Respect
- Trust
- Relationships
- Network
- Co-production of knowledge
- Joint decision making
- Consensus on goals & objectives
When Environmental Governance is in practice, what should be considered?
Openness to using institutions and incentives in novel ways to address the collective action nature of environmental problems.
The need for and environmental governance perspective stems from limitations of single government agencies to address ________ (3).
Wicked Problems
Public pressure for involvement
Expected Benefits
What are the five key emerging directions for environmental governance?
- Fit and Scale
- Adaptiveness and Learning
- Knowledge
- Actions and Roles
- Accountability and Legitimacy
What does “Fit and Scale” mean in terms of environmental governance?
It identifies and categorizes various type of mismatches (Spatial, temporal, etc.) to help clarify key challenges, affected actions and potential responses.
Give an example of how Fit and Scale could be applied in Environmental Governance:
Specified solutions that fit the scale and context of an issue (E.g., a regional approach to address flooding). Do the boundaries fit the scale of the issues?
What are 7 considerations when determining Fit and Scale?
- Sectors
- Jurisdictions
- Administrative Boundaries
- Traditional Use Areas
- Municipal and Township boundaries
- Foret Types
- Wood Supply Commitments
True or False: sometimes boundaries are set without consideration of the ecological boundaries, and simply for administrative and economic purposes.
True
Describe Adaptability and Learning in terms of environmental governance:
Identify the attributes of institutional and governance arrangements that exhibit a capacity to adapt.
Who are the 5 groups associated with Adaptiveness and Learning regarding Environmental Governance?
- Northeast Superior Mayors Group
- Northeast Superior Regional Chiefs Forum
- Local Action Centers
- Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp
- FEDNor
Describe Knowledge in terms of Environmental Governance:
Assess and reflect on the type of knowledge available to help understand the conservation context and problems, identify the holders of that knowledge.
Describe Actors and Roles in terms of Environmental Governance:
Characterize and assess the various actors involved (formally and informally) in making decisions, the key relationships they have, and their role in fostering adaptive capacity.
Describe Accountability and Legitimacy in terms of Environmental Governance:
Assess the extent to which formal and informal relationships associated with multiple actors in governance are sources of accountability and legitimacy.
