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Shared Governance

The idea of “governance” is central to how collaborative conservation works. In fact, collaborative conservation and democracy share several key principles…

Ask Atti: Engaging Collaborative Governance

“Dearest Atti, how have you successfully & meaningfully engaged your board and/or stakeholders in the process of creating or updating your organization’s governance documents?” – Katie  Atti, the Peach-faced Lovebird, studiously gathered responses from other WCCN (Western Collaborative Conservation Network) partners to support Katie, and this is what he found:  A good early step is to […]

A Systematic Review of Key Factors of Effective Collaborative Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

“A Systematic Review of Key Factors of Effective Collaborative Governance of Social-Ecological Systems” is the result of a mixed methods traditional and systematic literature review that we carried out with several colleagues from Arizona State University. The goal of this project was to collate various theories about success among collaborative efforts to govern social-ecological systems […]

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