Ecological interdependencies and resource competition: The role of information and communication in promoting effective collaboration in complex management situations.

ABSTRACT: Communication between resource users has repeatedly been shown to be of significant importance in environmental management. The proposed causal mechanisms are numerous, ranging from the ability of users to share information to their ability to negotiate solutions to common problems and dilemmas. However, what is less known is under what conditions these potential causal mechanisms are important and if, in cases when different means other than communication were available, whether they would be more effective in accomplishing these objectives. An example of such an alternative could be that instead of (or in addition to) users being reliant on within-group communication to acquire useful information an intermediary-such as a public agency-could provide that for them. Furthermore, the differ

SUBMITTER: Osborne M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6917270 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature