Meanings and robustness
Propositions for enhancing benefit sharing in social-ecological systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12960356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ernita Van Wyk (0000-0002-1091-360X, University of KwaZulu-Natal, corresponding author), Charles Breen (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Wayne Freimund (University of Montana) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 576-576 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Commons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1875-0281 • E-ISSN: 1875-0281 |
| Publisher | Ubiquity Press, Ltd. (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.445 |
| OpenAlex | W4242824068 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
Given increased pressure on natural resources to deliver benefits, complex trade-offs and the regulation of behaviours in relation to benefits is of key concern. Behaviours that signify resistance to the rules according to which benefits are allocated prompt us to consider causal links and feedbacks between benefits, perceptions of benefits, meanings attached to the benefits, and the regulatory instruments that mediate the distribution of benefits. An understanding of how meanings influence the perception of benefits exposes the complexity inherent in how people perceive and allocate value to natural resource benefits. Meanings are personal, sometimes overlapping, context dependent and variable across space and time. A challenge in directing resource user behaviour in common pool resources is that the relationship between the resource and resource use is typically not interpreted to include the manner in which users associate resource benefits with meanings. We propose that collective ordering of meanings and associated rules help to direct behaviours and in doing so they contribute to the purposeful maintenance of desirable elements of a social-ecological system (i.e. robustness). Using an example, we illustrate how tensions around benefit sharing are rooted in the emergence and changing prioritisation of contexts and meanings over time. The importance of eliciting, ordering and sanctioning of meanings is emphasised. We conclude by discussing the implications for robustness and benefit sharing in social-ecological systems and we comment on the usefulness and limitations of the framework
Business · Common-pool resource · Computer security · Ecological systems theory · Economics · Knowledge management · Microeconomics · Natural resource · Perception · Resource (disambiguation · Resource allocation · Resource distribution · Risk analysis (engineering · Robustness (evolution · Shared resource · Computer Science · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |