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Participatory interventions for collective action and sustainable resource management

linking actors, situations and contexts through the IAD, NAS and SES frameworks

authored by: Juan Felipe Ortiz-Riomalo, Ann Kathrin Koessler, Yaddi Miranda-Montagut, Juan Camilo Cardenas
Abstract: Overcoming complex environmental challenges demands different forms of stakeholder participation and collective action. While informative and relevant for participatory interventions, the literatures on collective action and participatory governance have largely remained disconnected. We illustrate how the institutional analysis and development (IAD), network of (adjacent) action situation (NAS) and social–ecological system (SES) frameworks can be combined to provide a coherent approach that integrates these literatures, applies their insights and bridges this disconnect. We compare two similar participatory interventions, one in Colombia and one in Peru, whose design and implementation we supported. Transdisciplinary in nature, both sought to foster collective action for watershed management. The frameworks allow us to demarcate, characterise and reflect upon the action situations (ASs) for the collective choice, coordination and knowledge generation that constituted each participatory intervention (i.e. the constituent NAS) and other relevant operational and institutional ASs that lay outside the boundaries of the participatory interventions. These other ASs may not be linked to one another or to the intervention’s constituent NAS, but they influence the outcomes of interest nevertheless, thereby shaping the potential of the participatory interventions for collective action and sustainable natural resource management. The framework then suggests, and our comparative analysis illustrates, that organisers and researchers of participatory interventions, such as multi-actor deliberative platforms and transdisciplinary research projects, should carefully consider, reflect upon and address the constellation of relevant actors, ASs and contexts co-determining the outcomes of interest. Our study demonstrates how the IAD, SES and NAS frameworks can support that endeavour.
Organisation(s): Institute of Environmental Planning
Environmental Behaviour and Planning
External Organisation(s): Osnabrück University
London School of Economics and Political Science
Isenberg Umass Amherst
Universidad de Los Andes Colombia
Type: Article
Journal: Sustainability science
Volume: 18
Pages: 79-96
No. of pages: 18
ISSN: 1862-4065
Publication date: 01.2023
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Global and Planetary Change, Health(social science), Geography, Planning and Development, Ecology, Sociology and Political Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01215-x (Access: Open)

BibTeX

@article{5967865f6b0f4e688784d10be438cc3c,
title = "Participatory interventions for collective action and sustainable resource management: linking actors, situations and contexts through the IAD, NAS and SES frameworks",
abstract = "Overcoming complex environmental challenges demands different forms of stakeholder participation and collective action. While informative and relevant for participatory interventions, the literatures on collective action and participatory governance have largely remained disconnected. We illustrate how the institutional analysis and development (IAD), network of (adjacent) action situation (NAS) and social–ecological system (SES) frameworks can be combined to provide a coherent approach that integrates these literatures, applies their insights and bridges this disconnect. We compare two similar participatory interventions, one in Colombia and one in Peru, whose design and implementation we supported. Transdisciplinary in nature, both sought to foster collective action for watershed management. The frameworks allow us to demarcate, characterise and reflect upon the action situations (ASs) for the collective choice, coordination and knowledge generation that constituted each participatory intervention (i.e. the constituent NAS) and other relevant operational and institutional ASs that lay outside the boundaries of the participatory interventions. These other ASs may not be linked to one another or to the intervention{\textquoteright}s constituent NAS, but they influence the outcomes of interest nevertheless, thereby shaping the potential of the participatory interventions for collective action and sustainable natural resource management. The framework then suggests, and our comparative analysis illustrates, that organisers and researchers of participatory interventions, such as multi-actor deliberative platforms and transdisciplinary research projects, should carefully consider, reflect upon and address the constellation of relevant actors, ASs and contexts co-determining the outcomes of interest. Our study demonstrates how the IAD, SES and NAS frameworks can support that endeavour.",
keywords = "Collective action, Institutional analysis and development, Networks of adjacent action situations, Participatory governance, Social–ecological systems, Sustainable natural resource management",
author = "Ortiz-Riomalo, {Juan Felipe} and Koessler, {Ann Kathrin} and Yaddi Miranda-Montagut and Cardenas, {Juan Camilo}",
note = "Funding information: Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Part of the time Ortiz-Riomalo and Koessler spent on this paper was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation within the framework of the Alexander von Humboldt-Professorship endowed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and granted to Stefanie Engel in form of the professorship of environmental economics at Osnabr{\"u}ck University. Ortiz-Riomalo received complementary funding from the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (Germany).",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1007/s11625-022-01215-x",
language = "English",
volume = "18",
pages = "79--96",
journal = "Sustainability science",
issn = "1862-4065",
publisher = "Springer Japan",
number = "1",
}