Identifying untapped legal capacity to promote multi-level and cross-sectoral coordination of natural resource governance

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ID12950451
AutoresNicola Harvey (0000-0002-7110-4929, Utrecht University, autor correspondente), Ahjond S Garmestani (0000-0001-5678-7293, University of Nebraska–Lincoln), Craig R Allen (0000-0001-8655-8272, University of Nebraska–Lincoln), Anoeska Buijze (0000-0002-9080-1068, Utrecht University), H F M W van Rijswick (0000-0002-0492-1718, Utrecht University)
Ano2023
Volume19
Fascículo1
Páginas325-346
Data de publicação2023-11-08
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSustainability Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1862-4057 • E-ISSN: 1862-4065
EditoraSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s11625-023-01424-y
PMID38362047
OpenAlexW4388490144
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas81

Natural resource governance in the face of climate change represents one of the seminal challenges of the Anthropocene. A number of innovative approaches have been developed in, among others, the fields of ecology, governance, and sustainability sciences for managing uncertainty and scarcity through a coordinated approach to natural resource governance. However, the absence of an enabling legal and regulatory framework has been identified in the literature as one of the primary barriers constraining the formal operationalization of these governance approaches. In this paper, we show how these approaches provide tools for analyzing procedural mandates across governmental levels and sectors in the natural resource governance space. We also find that there has been inadequate consideration of the potential in existing laws and regulations for cross-sectoral and multi-level coordination of natural resource governance. On this basis, we develop and apply a protocol that draws on the traditional legal method of doctrinal analysis to demonstrate how to identify existing, untapped legal capacity to promote coordinated governance of natural resources through an in-depth case study of water resources in South Africa. We then show how these untapped capacities within existing legal structures may be operationalized to improve natural resource governance. Further, this protocol is portable to other countries, provinces (states), and localities around the world

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