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The role of governance in delivery of natural resource management programmes – a case study involving the restoration of freshwater fish communities in the Murray‐Darling Basin
Author(s) -
Barwick Matt,
Ansell Dean,
Pritchard Janet,
Korodaj Terry
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
ecological management and restoration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.472
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1442-8903
pISSN - 1442-7001
DOI - 10.1111/emr.12097
Subject(s) - natural resource management , corporate governance , stakeholder engagement , stakeholder , natural resource , environmental resource management , environmental planning , resource (disambiguation) , work (physics) , plan (archaeology) , resource management (computing) , business , natural (archaeology) , political science , geography , engineering , public relations , environmental science , computer science , mechanical engineering , computer network , finance , archaeology , law
Summary Good governance is crucial in the effective management of complex natural resources issues. There are many elements of effective governance, with recent work proposing eight principles relevant to natural resource management. In this study, we consider the Native Fish Strategy ( NFS ) – a long‐term plan for restoration and protection of native fish in the Murray‐Darling Basin ( MDB ) – as a case study to explore how these eight principles supported the programme's governance, and in particular, outcomes achieved for stakeholder engagement, knowledge generation and programme delivery. We present a scalable governance model derived from the examined case study, which we believe effectively, links science, management and community participation and would be useful for tackling natural resource management problems at a range of scales in other situations.