Four Cultural Narratives for Managing Social-ecological Complexity in Public Natural Resource Management.

ABSTRACT: Public Natural Resource Management (NRM) agencies operate in complex social-ecological domains. These complexities proliferate unpredictably therefore investigating and supporting the ability of public agencies to respond effectively is increasingly important. However, understanding how public NRM agencies innovate and restructure to negotiate the range of particular complexities they face is an under researched field. One particular conceptualisation of the social-ecological complexities facing NRM agencies that is of growing influence is the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus. Yet, as a tool to frame and understand those complexities it has limitations. Specifically, it overlooks how NRMs respond institutionally to these social-ecological complexities in the context of economic and organisati

SUBMITTER: Kirsop-Taylor NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7338285 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature