Evaluating governance arrangements and decision-making outcomes for natural resource management planning: An empirical application of the governance systems analysis framework

Potts, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8681-4309, Vella, Karen, Dale, Allan and Sipe, Neil 2016. Evaluating governance arrangements and decision-making outcomes for natural resource management planning: An empirical application of the governance systems analysis framework. Society and Natural Resources 29 (11) , pp. 1325-1341. 10.1080/08941920.2016.1185557

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Abstract

Governance continues to be a challenge in the management and conservation of natural resources. It is difficult to strategically address governance challenges without understanding the dynamics, capacities, and knowledge application of institutions within such governance systems. This paper examines the use of Governance Systems Analysis (GSA) to compare, evaluate and benchmark governance arrangements for regional natural resource management (NRM) planning. It is applied in two Australian regional NRM case studies in Cape York and the Wet Tropics. Our analysis of governance arrangements for NRM planning in the two regions finds that while they are structurally and functionally similar, they have different capacities for decision-making about planning. The paper concludes with a discussion of the usefulness and implications of using the GSA as an evaluative framework to analyse governance in regional NRM planning systems.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles
ISSN:	0894-1920
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	26 January 2018
Date of Acceptance:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	03 Dec 2024 20:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/108495

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