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Type:
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Journal Article |
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Author:
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Veldkamp, Tom; Polman, Nico; Reinhard, Stijn; Slingerland, Maja |
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Journal:
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Ecology and Society |
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Volume:
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16 |
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Date:
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2011 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7511
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Sector:
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Land Tenure & Use |
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Subject(s):
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governance and politics
institutional economics
scale
social-ecological systems
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Abstract:
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"One of the main unresolved problems in policy making is the step from scale issues to
effective governance. What is appropriate for a lower level, such as a region or location, might be considered
undesirable at a global scale. Linking scaling to governance is an important issue for the improvement of
current environmental management and policies. Whereas socialecological science tends to focus on
adaptive behavior and aspects of spatial ecological data, new institutional economics focuses more on
levels in institutional scales and temporal dimensions. Consequently, both disciplines perceive different
scaling challenges while aiming at a similar improvement of effective governance. We propose that future
research needs to focus on four themes: (1) How to combine spatial properties such as extent and grain
with the economic units of market and agent; (2) How to combine the different governance instruments
proposed by both perspectives; (3) How to communicate the different scaling perspectives (hierarchy vs.
no hierarchy) and meanings to policy makers and other stakeholders; and (4) How to deal with the nonequilibrium
conditions in the real world and the disciplinary perspectives. Here, we hypothesize that a
combined system perspective of both disciplines will improve our understanding of the missing link between
scaling and governance."
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