- Title
- Evaluating and reflecting on coproduction of protected area management plans
- Creator
- Roux, Dirk J, Nel, Jeanne L, Freitag, Stefanie, Novellie, Peter, Rosenberg, Eureta
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/370550
- Identifier
- vital:66353
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.542"
- Description
- Protected areas are complex social-ecological systems, hence their management should be guided by engagement and co-learning with diverse stakeholders. The challenge of effective stakeholder participation has generated a body of literature on the design and facilitation of coproduction processes. In this study, we used this literature to develop a principle-based framework for assessing coproduction. We then applied this framework to evaluate how well “adaptive planning” (a sub-process of adaptive management used for visioning and objective setting with stakeholders), as applied to the Garden Route National Park in South Africa, aligned with the ideals of coproduction. Our analysis revealed shortcomings in the adaptive planning process, which could be improved through broadening the agenda beyond the mandate and control of national parks, empowering collective agency among a wider stakeholder network, and embedding co-learning with stakeholders as an ongoing journey. A significant finding was that adaptive management does not align well with the ideals of coproduction, which may be better supported by an adaptive comanagement approach. The latter is particularly necessary in complex national parks that are diverse in terms of both ecosystems and stakeholders, and where governance may be contested.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (15 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Wiley Library Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Conservation Science and Practice, Roux, D.J., Nel, J.L., Freitag, S., Novellie, P. and Rosenberg, E., 2021. Evaluating and reflecting on coproduction of protected area management plans. Conservation Science and Practice, 3(11), p.e542, Conservation Science and Practice volume 3 number 11 p. 542 2021 2578-4854
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- Publisher
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- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Wiley Library Online Terms of Use Statement (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/terms-and-conditions)
- Rights
- Open Access
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Rosenberg, Eureta (Prof)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Global Change Social Learning Systems Development: Transformative Learning and Green Skills Learning (ELRC)
RU Department of Education
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