The institutions-adaptive capacity nexus: Insights from coastal resources co-management in Cambodia and Vietnam |
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Affiliation: | 1. Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia;2. Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry, Vietnam;3. General Department of Administration for Nature Conservation and Protection, Ministry of Environment, Cambodia;4. Department of Geography, Environment and Population, University of Adelaide, Australia;1. Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, 774 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan;2. Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan;3. Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan;4. Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan;5. Department of Forest Management, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, 1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8687, Japan;6. Institute of Forest and Wildlife Research and Development, Forestry Administration, 1019 Hanoi Street, Phnom Penh, Cambodia;7. Department of Forestry and Community Forestry, Forestry Administration, #40, Norodom Blvd, Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia;1. The University of Melbourne, School of Geography, Australia;2. Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Australia;1. Aquaculture and Fisheries Group, Wageningen University, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands;2. Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands;3. Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands;1. Department of Environmental Science and Management, School of Health & Life Sciences, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh;2. Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
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Abstract: | Responding to the unprecedented social-environmental change facing humankind will require responsive and flexible governance institutions (i.e., systems of rules and social norms) that facilitate adaptive capacity of individuals, groups and organisations. This may explain the sustained interest in the institutional dimensions of adaptive capacity. However, a better understanding of how institutions may enable adaptive capacity is still evolving. The literature is yet to clearly articulate how institutions relate to attributes of adaptive capacity. This study contributes to address this knowledge gap; it employs an evaluative approach that underscores the relationship between types of institutions and attributes of adaptive capacity (i.e., variety, learning capacity, autonomy, leadership, resources and fair governance). Such approach is used to examine how institutions enable adaptive capacity in the context of coastal resources co-managemen in the Peam Krasaop Wildlife Sanctuary (Cambodia) and Tam Giang Lagoon (Vietnam). In this study, complexity emerges as a defining feature of adaptive capacity. It results from the relationship between institutions and adaptive capacity and the contextual factors in which such relationship takes place. Exercises aiming to assess adaptive capacity should consider the institutions-adaptive capacity nexus together with the embedding social, cultural and political context. |
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Keywords: | Adaptive capacity Institutional analysis Co-management Coastal resources management Vietnam Cambodia |
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