TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding the context of multifaceted collaborations for social-ecological sustainability
T2 - A methodology for cross-case analysis
AU - Cockburn, Jessica
AU - Schoon, Michael
AU - Cundill, Georgina
AU - Robinson, Cathy
AU - Aburto, Jaime A.
AU - Alexander, Steven M.
AU - Baggio, Jacopo A.
AU - Barnaud, Cecile
AU - Chapman, Mollie
AU - Llorente, Marina Garcia
AU - García-López, Gustavo A.
AU - Hill, Rosemary
AU - Speranza, Chinwe Ifejika
AU - Lee, Jean
AU - Meek, Chanda L.
AU - Rosenberg, Eureta
AU - Schultz, Lisen
AU - Thondhlana, Gladman
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the author(s). Published here under license by the Resilience Alliance.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - There are limited approaches available that enable researchers and practitioners to conduct multiple case study comparisons of complex cases of collaboration in natural resource management and conservation. The absence of such tools is felt despite the fact that over the past several years a great deal of literature has reviewed the state of the science regarding collaboration. Much of this work is based on case studies of collaboration and highlights the importance of contextual variables, further complicating efforts to compare outcomes across case-study areas and the likely failure of approaches based on one size fits all generalizations. We expand on the standard overview of the field by identifying some of the challenges associated with managing complex systems with multiple resources, multiple stakeholder groups with diverse knowledges/understandings, and multiple objectives across multiple scales, i.e., multifaceted collaborative initiatives. We then elucidate how a realist methodology, within a critical realist framing, can support efforts to compare multiple case studies of such multifaceted initiatives. The methodology we propose considers the importance and impact of context for the origins, purpose, and success of multifaceted collaborative natural resource management and conservation initiatives in social-ecological systems.
AB - There are limited approaches available that enable researchers and practitioners to conduct multiple case study comparisons of complex cases of collaboration in natural resource management and conservation. The absence of such tools is felt despite the fact that over the past several years a great deal of literature has reviewed the state of the science regarding collaboration. Much of this work is based on case studies of collaboration and highlights the importance of contextual variables, further complicating efforts to compare outcomes across case-study areas and the likely failure of approaches based on one size fits all generalizations. We expand on the standard overview of the field by identifying some of the challenges associated with managing complex systems with multiple resources, multiple stakeholder groups with diverse knowledges/understandings, and multiple objectives across multiple scales, i.e., multifaceted collaborative initiatives. We then elucidate how a realist methodology, within a critical realist framing, can support efforts to compare multiple case studies of such multifaceted initiatives. The methodology we propose considers the importance and impact of context for the origins, purpose, and success of multifaceted collaborative natural resource management and conservation initiatives in social-ecological systems.
KW - Collaboration
KW - Complexity
KW - Conservation
KW - Context-mechanism-outcome
KW - Critical realist methodology
KW - Governance
KW - Natural resource management
KW - Realist evaluation
KW - Social-ecological systems
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U2 - 10.5751/ES-11527-250307
DO - 10.5751/ES-11527-250307
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089400934
SN - 1708-3087
VL - 25
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Ecology and Society
JF - Ecology and Society
IS - 3
M1 - 7
ER -