TY - JOUR
T1 - A Conceptual Framework for Social, Behavioral, and Environmental Change through Stakeholder Engagement in Water Resource Management
AU - Eaton, Weston M.
AU - Brasier, Kathryn J.
AU - Burbach, Mark E.
AU - Whitmer, Walt
AU - Engle, Elyzabeth W.
AU - Burnham, Morey
AU - Quimby, Barbara
AU - Kumar Chaudhary, Anil
AU - Whitley, Hannah
AU - Delozier, Jodi
AU - Fowler, Lara B.
AU - Wutich, Amber
AU - Bausch, Julia C.
AU - Beresford, Melissa
AU - Hinrichs, C. Clare
AU - Burkhart-Kriesel, Cheryl
AU - Preisendanz, Heather E.
AU - Williams, Clinton
AU - Watson, Jack
AU - Weigle, Jason
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Water for Agriculture grant no. 2017-68007-26584/project accession no. 1013079 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. We would like to thank Ted Alter, Andrea Armstrong, J. Gordon Arbuckle, Suraj Upadhaya, and the three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Incorporating stakeholder engagement into environmental management may help in the pursuit of novel approaches for addressing complex water resource problems. However, evidence about how and under what circumstances stakeholder engagement enables desirable changes remains elusive. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for studying social and environmental changes possible through stakeholder engagement in water resource management, from inception to outcomes. We synthesize concepts from multiple literatures to provide a framework for tracing linkages from contextual conditions, through engagement process design features, to social learning, community capacity building, and behavioral change at individual, group, and group network levels, and ultimately to environmental change. We discuss opportunities to enhance the framework including through empirical applications to delineate scalar and temporal dimensions of social, behavioral, and environmental changes resulting from stakeholder engagement, and the potential for negative outcomes thus far glossed over in research on change through engagement.
AB - Incorporating stakeholder engagement into environmental management may help in the pursuit of novel approaches for addressing complex water resource problems. However, evidence about how and under what circumstances stakeholder engagement enables desirable changes remains elusive. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for studying social and environmental changes possible through stakeholder engagement in water resource management, from inception to outcomes. We synthesize concepts from multiple literatures to provide a framework for tracing linkages from contextual conditions, through engagement process design features, to social learning, community capacity building, and behavioral change at individual, group, and group network levels, and ultimately to environmental change. We discuss opportunities to enhance the framework including through empirical applications to delineate scalar and temporal dimensions of social, behavioral, and environmental changes resulting from stakeholder engagement, and the potential for negative outcomes thus far glossed over in research on change through engagement.
KW - Stakeholder engagement
KW - collective action
KW - community capacity building
KW - conceptual framework
KW - social learning
KW - water resource management
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U2 - 10.1080/08941920.2021.1936717
DO - 10.1080/08941920.2021.1936717
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85101608910
SN - 0894-1920
VL - 34
SP - 1111
EP - 1132
JO - Society and Natural Resources
JF - Society and Natural Resources
IS - 8
ER -