Multilevel water, biodiversity and climate adaptation governance: evaluating adaptive management in Lesotho
Multilevel water, biodiversity and climate adaptation governance: evaluating adaptive management in Lesotho
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10.1016/j.envsci.2010.08.004
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发表时间：
2010-11-01
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6
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Kranz, Nicole
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作者：
Bisaro, Alexander;Hinkel, Jochen;Kranz, Nicole
在许多情况下，气候变化影响自然资源的影响是不确定的，适应气候变化往往涉及地方层面的集体行动问题，这些问题嵌入在多层次治理制度中。适应性管理（AM）是一种新兴方法，通过促进对变化具有鲁棒性并能够学习的多层次机构来处理这种不确定性和复杂性。然而，评估多层次治理制度中的AM的许多文献仅关注于坚持某些据说使AM成功的结构特征，而忽略了AM是否真正产生了预期结果的问题。本文还评估了多层次制度中的AM为此，我们首先应用管理和过渡框架（MTF）来描述莱索托的三个多层次制度。然后，我们观察每个制度是否符合 AM 的结构特征。最后，我们评估自然资源管理项目的结果在多大程度上有利于 Ostrom 的（1990）可持续公共池资源管理的设计原则。我们发现，尽管在莱索托没有找到理想的适应性制度，但结果证实了 AM 的假设，即分散决策开放信息来源和多元化的用户利益会带来更好的结果 相反，气候制度的要素被发现不具有适应性 我们的研究结果也证实了 AM 作为气候适应治理方法的适当性 (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd 保留所有权利
In many cases in which climate change affects natural resources impacts are uncertain and adaptation to climate change often involves collective action problems at the local level, which are embedded in multilevel governance regimes Adaptive management (AM) is an emerging approach to deal with such uncertainty and complexity by promoting multilevel institutions that are robust to change and able to learn Much of the literature evaluating AM in multilevel governance regimes however focuses only on the adherence to certain structural features said to make AM successful leaving aside the question whether AM actually produces desired outcomes This paper evaluates AM in multilevel regimes also in terms of the outcomes they produce To this end we first apply the Management and Transition Framework (MTF) in order to describe three multilevel regimes in Lesotho For each regime we then observe whether it adheres to the structure features of AM Finally we evaluate the extent to which the outcomes natural resource management projects, are conducive to Ostrom s (1990) design principles' for sustainable common pool resource management We find that though no ideal adaptive regime' is found in Lesotho the results confirm the AM hypotheses that decentralised decision making open information sources and plurality of user interests lead to improved outcomes Conversely, elements of the climate regime are found not to be adaptive Our findings also confirm the appropriateness of AM as a governance approach to climate adaptation (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved