Harbour resource management in Cowes, Isle of Wight: an analytical framework for multiple-use decision-making
✍ Scribed by N.A Steins; V.M Edwards
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 378 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-4797
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✦ Synopsis
The management of common-pool resources (CPRs) has gained increased attention in the debate about sustainable environmental management. Research on CPR management has mainly concentrated on singleuse resources. Since CPRs develop over time to include new extractive and non-extractive users, a multipleuse perspective on their governance is needed.
In 'multiple-use CPRs' co-ordination and monitoring of the various activities is an integral part of resource management; decision-making processes play a key role in this collective management. This paper develops a heuristic framework for the analysis of decision-making processes in multiple-use CPRs. The framework is based on a case study of three selected harbour uses in the port of Cowes (UK): (1) the oyster fishery;
(2) the yachting industry; and ( 3
) cargo shipping, and draws heavily on an analytical framework for singleuse CPRs developed by Oakerson. The Oakerson Framework has been re-developed by adapting it to 'vertical' and 'horizontal' multi-level analysis, including 'multiple-levels of decision-making arrangements' and 'multiple users', as integral variables.
The paper also examines the extent to which user groups can influence the management of a multipleuse CPR as a whole. In cases where such governance remains with an 'umbrella authority', the users' ability to influence decisions by the umbrella organization is strongly related to the historical, socio-economic and organizational characteristics of the specific resource use and on the users' strength at the organizational level. While the presence of an umbrella authority may facilitate CPR management, under-representation of specific user groups in decision-making may serve as a catalyst for institutional change for that particular use, in an attempt to find other means of control.