A case for using adaptive platforms in the development and implementation of urban-centred adaptive management plans |
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Authors: | Sam Benvie |
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Institution: | (1) Ecological Conservation Lab, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada |
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Abstract: | The recurring challenges in developing and coordinating social frameworks for the effective adaptive management of environmental
resources in urban environments may be addressed by developing platforms, similar to those promoted by collective action in
the management of common pool resources. This paper compares how these two frameworks perceive and foster social organization
vis-à-vis management action, particularly at the local scale of resource use. The significant potential for incorporation
of platforms into the adaptive management framework is discussed, based on a set of issues identified in collective action
research as important in the development of platforms. An urban-centred case study, the Las Vegas Wash Comprehensive Adaptive
Management Plan, illustrates how an adaptive management framework, when its social components come together in a mutually
supportive, heuristic way, begins to generate what in collective action is called a platform. The paper further explores how
platforms may be more explicitly incorporated into the adaptive management framework to address some of the more persistent
social organization difficulties for which adaptive management has been faulted, especially regarding scale issues and the
urban context. A revised adaptive management model including a platform is provided, and suggestions made about issues that
may be studied using this model. |
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Keywords: | adaptive platform adaptive management urban |
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