Purposeful Stakeholder Engagement for Improved Environmental Flow Outcomes
Purposeful Stakeholder Engagement for Improved Environmental Flow Outcomes
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有目的的利益相关者参与以改善环境流量结果
DOI：
10.3389/fenvs.2021.749864
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
N. Poff
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作者：
M. Mussehl;A. Horne;J. Webb;N. Poff
河流是动态的社会生态系统，以多种方式支持社会和生态系统，产生各种不同的用户群体和相互竞争的利益。为保护河流环境而开发的环境流（e-flow）程序通常是由水资源管理者和研究人员构思的。尽管不断有人呼吁加强公众参与，使当地社区和土著人民参与发展进程。如果做不到这一点，就会破坏社会的合法性和项目的有效性。在本文中，我们描述了电子流的自适应管理如何允许通过迭代过程合并利益相关者的多样性观点的机会。然而，要实现这一点，涉众参与必须有意地集成到适应性管理周期中。利益相关者参与到电子流中，可以建立对河流的共同理解，并开启解决多个不确定性轴的协作和创新管理策略。在这里，我们描述了一个整体框架，将当前的参与式参与尝试和现有的技术方法统一为一个完整的战略。该框架确定了电子流自适应管理周期中的主要步骤，描述了各种利益相关者的潜在角色，并提出了潜在的参与工具。重组e-flow方法以充分包括利益相关者，需要从由可交付成果（如报告和流程建议）驱动转变为关注以人为本的结果（如持续学习和培养关系）。虽然我们的工作是在电子流量的背景下进行的，但有意将利益相关者参与纳入适应性管理与自然资源管理普遍相关。
Rivers are dynamic social-ecological systems that support societies and ecosystems in a multitude of ways, giving rise to a variety of user groups and competing interests. Environmental flows (e-flows) programs developed to protect riverine environments are often conceived by water managers and researchers. This is despite continued calls for increased public participation to include local communities and Indigenous peoples in the development process. Failure to do so undermines social legitimacy and program effectiveness. In this paper, we describe how adaptive management of e-flows allows an opportunity to incorporate a diversity of stakeholder views through an iterative process. However, to achieve this, stakeholder engagement must be intentionally integrated into the adaptive management cycle. Stakeholder engagement in e-flows allows for the creation of a shared understanding of a river and opens collaborative and innovative management strategies that address multiple axes of uncertainty. Here, we describe a holistic framework that unifies current participatory engagement attempts and existing technical methods into a complete strategy. The framework identifies the primary steps in an e-flows adaptive management cycle, describes potential roles of various stakeholders, and proposes potential engagement tools. Restructuring e-flows methods to adequately include stakeholders requires a shift from being driven by deliverables, such as reports and flow recommendations, to focusing on people-oriented outcomes, such as continuous learning and fostering relationships. While our work has been placed in the context of e-flows, the intentional integration of stakeholder engagement in adaptive management is pertinent to natural resources management generally.