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From Coastal Timber Supply Area to Great Bear Rainforest: Exploring Power in a Social-ecological Governance Innovation

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dc.contributor.author Moore, Michele-Lee
dc.contributor.author Tjornbo, Ola
dc.date.accessioned 2013-01-10T16:26:23Z
dc.date.available 2013-01-10T16:26:23Z
dc.date.issued 2012 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8681
dc.description.abstract "As the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment revealed, many social-ecological systems around the world are currently being governed unsustainably. Consequently, social innovation is needed to transform current governance regimes and introduce new more resilient arrangements. Although dominant institutions and social groups may resist such innovations which threaten the status quo and their interests, groups on the margins of the established social order can often trigger governance transformations, despite a lack of conventional financial and institutional resources. In particular, there are numerous cases of marginalized groups initiating processes of radical change to establish sustainable governance practices for threatened social-ecological systems. We investigate one such case, and introduce a typology of power developed by Barnett and Duvall (2005) to illuminate the role that nongovernmental organizations and indigenous nations played in the transformation of a social-ecological governance regime for an area known as the Great Bear Rainforest, located in British Columbia, Canada. The analysis shows the interplay of compulsory, structural, institutional, and productive forms of power as the four key interest groups in this case enacted the governance transformation. The conclusions draw lessons about how the use and distribution of certain types of power can shape the course and outcomes of social-ecological governance transformations." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject governance and politics en_US
dc.subject rain forests en_US
dc.subject power en_US
dc.subject social behavior en_US
dc.title From Coastal Timber Supply Area to Great Bear Rainforest: Exploring Power in a Social-ecological Governance Innovation en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region North America en_US
dc.coverage.country Canada en_US
dc.subject.sector General & Multiple Resources en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Ecology and Society en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 17 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 4 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth December en_US


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