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Are bottom-up approaches good for promoting social-ecological fit in urban landscapes?
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- Enqvist, Johan P. (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre,University of Cape Town, South Africa
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- Tengö, Maria (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre
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- Bodin, Örjan (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre
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- 2019-03-16
- 2020
- English.
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In: Ambio. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0044-7447 .- 1654-7209. ; 49:1, s. 49-61
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- Bottom-up approaches are often presented as a remedy to environmental governance problems caused by poorly aligned social institutions and fragmented ecosystems. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence demonstrating how such social-ecological fit might emerge and help achieve desirable outcomes. This paper combines quantitative social-ecological network analysis with interviews to investigate whether bottom-up approaches in lake governance improve the fit. We study groups of residents seeking to improve management of a network of lakes in Bengaluru, India. Results show that 23 'lake groups' collaborate in a way that aligns with how lakes are hydrologically connected, thus strengthening the social-ecological fit. Three groups founded around 2010 have mobilized support from municipal officers and introduced an ecosystem-based approach to lake management that recognizes their ecological functions and dependence on, the broader hydrological network. These groups have also changed how other lake groups operate: groups founded after 2010 are more collaborative and more prone to contribute to social-ecological fit compared to the older lake groups. This paper demonstrates the utility of a theoretically informed method for examining the impact of bottom-up approaches, which, we argue, is important for a more informed perspective on their relevance and potential contribution to urban environmental governance.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)
- TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER -- Naturresursteknik (hsv//swe)
- ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY -- Environmental Engineering (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Bottom-up approaches
- Environmental governance
- Global South
- Network analysis
- Social-ecological fit
- Urban lakes
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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