Adaptive Capacity of Coastal Resource Management Institutions in Cambodia, Viet Nam and Australia

Pedro Fidelman; Truong Van Tuyen; Kim Nong; Melissa Nursey-Bray; Piseth Keoc; Mensah Owusu

doi:10.30852/sb.2016.27

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Adaptive Capacity of Coastal Resource Management Institutions in Cambodia, Viet Nam and Australia

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Adaptive Capacity of Coastal Resource Management Institutions in Cambodia, Viet Nam and Australia

Pedro Fidelman, Truong Van Tuyen, Kim Nong, Melissa Nursey-Bray, Piseth Keoc and Mensah Owusu

APN Science Bulletin, Vol.6, pp.27-33

2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30852/sb.2016.27

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Abstract

Environmental Science and Management

adaptive capacity

institutional analysis

decentralisation

coastal resource governance

environmental change

Southeast Asia

Responding to environmental change requires a better understanding of how institutions-the rules and norms that structure human interactions-enable society to adapt to impacts of such change. By drawing on the Adaptive Capacity Wheel framework and empirical cases of coastal resource management decentralisation in the context of the Peam Krasaop Wildlife Sanctuary (Cambodia), Tam Giang Lagoon (Viet Nam) and the state of South Australia (Australia), this study examines how institutions support adaptive capacity. The characteristics of institutions analysed both facilitated and constrained adaptive capacity, depending on the enabling and disabling conditions at play. Despite the constraints, institutions have, to a certain extent, enabled actors to: organise themselves; learn and improve resource management; mobilise leadership, resources and authority; and, make progress towards improved governance. These illustrate the creation and mobilisation of adaptive capacity, which resulted in positive outcomes in responding to environmental change. In some of the cases studied, reinforcing enabling conditions of adaptive capacity will require creating livelihood alternatives, alleviating poverty, reducing inequality, and building human and social capital.

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Title: Adaptive Capacity of Coastal Resource Management Institutions in Cambodia, Viet Nam and Australia
Authors: Pedro Fidelman (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Truong Van Tuyen (Author) - Hue University of Forestry and Agriculture, Viet Nam
Kim Nong (Author) - Nature Conservation and Protection, Cambodia
Melissa Nursey-Bray (Author) - University of Adelaide
Piseth Keoc (Author) - General Department of Administration for Nature Conservation and Protection, Cambodia
Mensah Owusu (Author) - University of Adelaide
Publication details: APN Science Bulletin, Vol.6, pp.27-33
Publisher: Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN)
Date published: 2016
DOI: 10.30852/sb.2016.27
ISSN: 2185-761X
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449656802621
Output Type: Journal article

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