Tracing social capital: How stakeholder group interactions shape agricultural water quality restoration in the Florida Everglades
Tracing social capital: How stakeholder group interactions shape agricultural water quality restoration in the Florida Everglades
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追踪社会资本：利益相关者群体的互动如何影响佛罗里达大沼泽地的农业水质恢复
DOI：
10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.05.038
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发表时间：
2018
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影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
R. R. Chowdhury
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作者：
Landon Yoder;R. R. Chowdhury
农业非点源污染仍然是一个紧迫的环境问题，尽管几十年的政策和环境倡议。地方合作行动是解决此类问题的有效多层次治理解决方案的关键要素，但确保农民参与水质保护仍然具有挑战性。社会资本的信任关系，互惠，并共享的社会规范内和之间的主要利益相关者群体已被发现，使合作的环境理想的结果。然而，在多层次治理中，社会资本的缺点仍然没有得到充分的研究，其中一个利益相关者群体内的合作（结合社会资本）可能会破坏与其他利益相关者的合作（桥接社会资本）。鉴于这一重要的差距，研究人员需要研究如何结合和桥接社会资本可能会形成，保持，或通过利益相关者的相互作用，或破坏，以及相应的环境consequence.In本文中，我们解决这些差距通过案例研究南佛罗里达的产糖区，其排水流向南方进入佛罗里达大沼泽地。与其他地方持续的水质损害相比，大沼泽地的水质在过去20年中稳步改善。这些改善是在一套复杂的治理安排下实现的，这些安排建立了一个强制性的长期水质数字目标，但依赖于农场之间的共同遵守。这些动态鼓励三个关键群体的利益相关者之间的互动-农民，农业推广机构，国家监管机构-实施管理变革。借鉴半结构化的采访，我们发现，农民之间的社会资本债券鼓励他们通过共同的责任感，以改善他们的管理，同时也有可能限制恢复保持的看法，法规是不公平的。弥合社会资本有助于使新的管理努力合法化，而法院规定的水质目标则激励农民利用多种形式的社会资本。我们还讨论了这种情况下，在类似的设置在其他地方治理农业非点源污染的相关性。
Agricultural nonpoint source pollution remains a pressing environmental problem despite decades of policy and environmental initiatives. Cooperative local actions are a crucial element of effective multilevel governance solutions to such problems, but securing farmer participation for water quality protection remains challenging. Social capital—relations of trust, reciprocity, and shared social norms within and between key stakeholder groups—has been found to enable cooperation for environmentally desirable outcomes. However, the downsides of social capital remain under-examined in multilevel governance, where cooperation within one stakeholder group (bonding social capital) may undermine cooperation with other stakeholders (bridging social capital). Given this important gap, researchers need to examine how bonding and bridging social capital may be formed, maintained, or undermined through stakeholder interactions, and the corresponding environmental consequences.In this paper, we address these gaps through a case study of south Florida’s sugar-producing region, whose drainage water flows south into the Florida Everglades. In contrast to persistent water quality impairment elsewhere, Everglades water quality has improved steadily over the past 20 years. These improvements have taken place under a complex set of governance arrangements that established a mandatory long-term numeric water quality target but which relies on shared compliance among farms. These dynamics encouraged interactions among three key groups of stakeholders—farmers, agricultural extension agents, and state regulators—to implement management changes. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, we find that bonding social capital among farmers encourages them to improve their management through a sense of shared responsibility, while also potentially limiting restoration by maintaining perceptions that the regulations are unfair. Bridging social capital helps to legitimize new management efforts, while court-mandated water quality targets incentivize farmers to draw on multiple forms of social capital. We also discuss the relevance of this case for governing agricultural nonpoint source pollution in similar settings elsewhere.