Social networks and governance of ecosystem services: Power asymmetries among local beneficiaries and institutions at multiple levels

Vallet Ameline, Locatelli Bruno, Levrel Harold, Dendoncker Nicolas. 2017. Social networks and governance of ecosystem services: Power asymmetries among local beneficiaries and institutions at multiple levels. In : Resilience 2017. Stockholm Resilience Centre, Resilience Alliance. Stockholm : s.n., Résumé, 260-261. Resilience 2017 : Resilience frontiers for global sustainability, Stockholm, Suède, 20 Août 2017/23 Août 2017.

Résumé : Analyzing how humans benefit from ecosystems and understanding how benefits relate to ecosystem governance structures are high priority objectives of socio-ecological research. Several frameworks describing the delivery of ecosystem services (ES) have been proposed, and recently, an increasing attention is being given to the social component (i.e. the beneficiaries) of ES. Stakeholders do not access ES equally and consequently do not benefit the same way from ecosystems. Similarly stakeholders and institutions (with different mandates and governance levels, from local and national) do not contribute equally to ecosystem management and governance. Power relationships have an important role in ES tradeoffs. While there is an important body of literature dealing with power relationships and the access to natural resources, the concept of ES remains poorly related to those questions of equity and environmental justice. However, identifying power relationships is crucial to highlight the mismatch between stakeholders that highly depend on ES but that are excluded from their management and to design sustainable environmental policies that reduce social inequalities. This study aims to investigate the relationships between ES and stakeholders (including individuals and local to national institutions) in a Peruvian watershed. Relevant stakeholders were identified during focus groups. Two-mode Social Network Analysis was conducted based on 65 semi-structured interviews. They informed us about stakeholders-ES interactions related to benefits received from ES (use and exclusion) and influence on ES (positive or negative effect on their level). Network structural properties were computed to analyze the nature and intensity of relationships. Results showed that stakeholders were clustered regarding the ES they interacted with. There was a mismatch between stakeholders depending on ES and stakeholders managing them. This study underline the importance of integrating such power asymmetries in environmental and socio-economic policies since stakeholders that strongly depend on ES are also likely to be deeply affected by global changes (climate change, economic transformation, increase of population, etc.). (Texte intégral)

Classification Agris : P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières
E50 - Sociologie rurale
E14 - Économie et politique du développement

Auteurs et affiliations

• Vallet Ameline, CIRAD-ES-UPR BSef (FRA)
• Locatelli Bruno, CIRAD-ES-UPR BSef (PER) ORCID: 0000-0003-2983-1644
• Levrel Harold, CIRED (FRA)
• Dendoncker Nicolas

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