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

IF 5.1 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Nicola Harvey, Ahjond Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, Anoeska Buijze, Marleen van Rijswick
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Abstract 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.
确定尚未开发的法律能力,以促进自然资源治理的多层次和跨部门协调
面对气候变化的自然资源治理是人类世的重大挑战之一。在生态、治理和可持续性科学等领域,已经开发了许多创新方法,通过协调自然资源治理的方法来管理不确定性和稀缺性。然而,在文献中,缺乏一个有利的法律和管理框架已被确定为限制这些治理方法正式运作的主要障碍之一。在本文中,我们展示了这些方法如何为分析自然资源治理领域中跨政府层面和部门的程序性授权提供工具。我们还发现,现有法律法规对跨部门、多层次协调自然资源治理的潜力考虑不足。在此基础上,我们开发并应用了一项协议,该协议借鉴了传统的理论分析法律方法,通过对南非水资源的深入案例研究,展示了如何识别现有的、尚未开发的法律能力,以促进自然资源的协调治理。然后,我们展示了如何在现有法律结构中利用这些未开发的能力来改善自然资源治理。此外,该协议可移植到世界各地的其他国家、省(州)和地方。
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Sustainability Science
Sustainability Science 环境科学-环境科学
CiteScore
11.30
自引率
10.00%
发文量
174
审稿时长
3 months
期刊介绍: The journal Sustainability Science offers insights into interactions within and between nature and the rest of human society, and the complex mechanisms that sustain both. The journal promotes science based predictions and impact assessments of global change, and seeks ways to ensure that such knowledge can be understood by society and be used to strengthen the resilience of global natural systems (such as ecosystems, ocean and atmospheric systems, nutrient cycles), social systems (economies, governments, industry) and human systems at the individual level (lifestyles, health, security, and human values).
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