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 […]
Products of the WCCN Collaborative Governance Working Group
The WCCN’s Collaborative Governance Working Group, formerly called the Public Policy Working Group, has broken new ground in the development of strategies to involve federal natural resource agencies and stakeholders in collaborative conservation efforts. In January of 2021, the group published a white paper on the topic led by Jessica Western and Heather Johnson, titled […]
What does environmental governance look like? In short: Layered and networked.
By Theresa Jedd, Fellows Cohort 4 Since I began my Ph.D. at Colorado State University in 2009, I have been interested in international forest politics from a global governance perspective. My interest in this area was sparked by coursework in my home department, political science, in which we debated the various meanings of and policy […]
