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PT J
TI Modeling soft institutional change and the improvement of freshwater governance in the coastal zone
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AF MONGRUEL, Remi
   PROU, Jean
   BALLE-BEGANTON, Johanna
   LAMPLE, Michel
   VANHOUTTE-BRUNIER, Alice
   RETHORET, Harold
   PEREZ, Jose
   VERNIER, Francoise
   BORDENAVE, Paul
   BACHER, Cedric
AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:3;5:1;6:4;7:1;8:5;9:5;10:6;
FF 1:PDG-RBE-EM;2:PDG-DCN-SLR;3:;4:;5:PDG-ODE-LER-LERFBN;6:;7:PDG-RBE-EM;8:;9:;10:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;
C1 IFREMER, Univ Brest, UMR Amure, Brest, France.
   IFREMER, La Tremblade, France
   University of Brest, UMR Amure, Brest, France
   EPTB Charente, France
   Cemagref, ADER Research Unit, France
   Ifremer, Dynamics of Coastal Environment Department, France
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   UBO, FRANCE
   EPTB CHARENTE, FRANCE
   IRSTEA, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI BREST
   LA TREMBLADE
SE PDG-RBE-EM
   PDG-DCN-SLR
   PDG-ODE-LER-LERFBN
   PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-p187
   copubli-univ-france
IF 2.516
TC 18
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00055/16665/14158.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;common-pool resources;ecosystem services;freshwater management;governance;institutional arrangements
AB The contribution of soft institutional change to improve freshwater governance in the coastal zone will be examined. Freshwater management seeks to reduce losses due to overexploitation of the common-pool resources provided by river catchments and their associated ecosystems. Due to the complexity of the governance system, improving the performance of one coastal social-ecological system means searching for the appropriate “soft” institutional change. In the Pertuis Charentais region, increasing scarcity of freshwater in summer threatens the health of the coastal ecosystem and the sustainability of human activities, which depend on the use of natural resources. The allocation of freshwater among competing uses or concerns is a core issue for integrated coastal zone management. To address this issue, we have constructed an analytical framework that combines the ecosystem services approach with the institutional analysis of common-pool resources, and have developed an integrated simulation tool based on the system dynamic modeling approach. Freshwater scarcity generates three kinds of user conflict: (1) conflict between two extractive uses of freshwater (irrigation and drinking water), (2) conflicts between extractive uses (provisioning services) and other services (support, regulatory, and cultural) provided by freshwater, and (3) competition within a given activity sector (agriculture or shellfish farming). Participation by local managers led to the identification of realistic soft institutional changes that might mitigate conflicts and improve the governance system. These possible institutional changes were then integrated as fixed exogenous parameters in the simulation model. The simulated scenarios suggest that innovative collective arrangements involving farmers could be an alternative to other more restrictive top-down measures. This participatory experiment also illustrates the potential of social-ecological modeling for exploring acceptable new institutional arrangements.
PY 2011
SO Ecology And Society
SN 1708-3087
PU Resilience Alliance
VL 16
IS 4
UT 000298841900007
DI 10.5751/ES-04294-160415
ID 16665
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