Participatory interventions for collective action and sustainable resource management

Linking actors, situations and contexts through the IAD, NAS and SES frameworks

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12950461
AutoresJuan Felipe Ortiz-Riomalo (0000-0003-4275-687X, Osnabrück University, autor de correspondencia), Ann-Kathrin Koessler (0000-0002-8516-2900, Osnabrück University), Yaddi Miranda-Montagut, Juan Camilo Cardenas (0000-0003-0005-7595, Universidad de los Andes)
Año2022
Volumen18
Número1
Páginas79-96
Fecha de publicación2022-09-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSustainability Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1862-4057 • E-ISSN: 1862-4065
EditorialSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s11625-022-01215-x
OpenAlexW4298029077
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas93

Overcoming complex environmental challenges demands different forms of stakeholder participation and collective action. While informative and relevant for participatory interventions, the literatures on collective action and participatory governance have largely remained disconnected. We illustrate how the institutional analysis and development (IAD), network of (adjacent) action situation (NAS) and social–ecological system (SES) frameworks can be combined to provide a coherent approach that integrates these literatures, applies their insights and bridges this disconnect. We compare two similar participatory interventions, one in Colombia and one in Peru, whose design and implementation we supported. Transdisciplinary in nature, both sought to foster collective action for watershed management. The frameworks allow us to demarcate, characterise and reflect upon the action situations (ASs) for the collective choice, coordination and knowledge generation that constituted each participatory intervention (i.e. the constituent NAS) and other relevant operational and institutional ASs that lay outside the boundaries of the participatory interventions. These other ASs may not be linked to one another or to the intervention’s constituent NAS, but they influence the outcomes of interest nevertheless, thereby shaping the potential of the participatory interventions for collective action and sustainable natural resource management. The framework then suggests, and our comparative analysis illustrates, that organisers and researchers of participatory interventions, such as multi-actor deliberative platforms and transdisciplinary research projects, should carefully consider, reflect upon and address the constellation of relevant actors, ASs and contexts co-determining the outcomes of interest. Our study demonstrates how the IAD, SES and NAS frameworks can support that endeavour

Business · Citizen journalism · Collective action · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental resource management · Knowledge management · Natural resource · Natural resource management · Participatory action research · Participatory management · Political science · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Sociology · Stakeholder · Computer Science · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Water resources management and optimization