Strengthening the Governance of Common Land in National Parks to Deliver Ecosystem Services: A Comparative Analysis of the Lake District in England and Danau Sentarum in Indonesian Borneo

Abstract

"Strengthening governance in National Parks was addressed through research in two national parks; Danau Sentarum in Indonesian Borneo and The Lake District in England. Appreciative Inquiry was used with participants being considered as coresearchers following the participatory paradigm. Analysis of the interview data themes are presented to the reader through a series of word clouds, via ranking activities, action plans and a voting process. The data is appraised through three analytical frameworks to assess whether the proposals developed during the fieldwork can be predicted to be successful in practice The frameworks are Ostrom’s design principles, Tamanaha’s legal pluralism analysis and a ten point criteria for adaptive co-management."