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Building robustness for rural revitalization: A social-ecological system perspective
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2397-4970
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2948-7548
Abstract Collaborative governance has the potential to foster co-creative solutions to rural issues. Many rural areas have deteriorated due to rapid and encroaching urbanization and globalization. By building institutions to support and convey collaborative governance processes, rural areas can be revitalized and equipped with the ability to cope and evolve in the face of unexpected shocks and disturbances, they can be made robust. Concepts and arguments developed in a social-ecological systems framework are drawn on to flesh out a theoretical logic to aid understandings of how institutional design can enhance the robustness of a rural social-ecological system through fostering collaboration. A critical instance case study of a rural revitalization project undertaken at a traditional village in Hong Kong, Lai Chi Wo, allows for in-depth analysis of the relationship between intuitional design, collaborative governance and robustness. Through this case study, we show how institutions can be designed and built to foster collaborative processes and, hence, enhance the system's robustness. The demonstration of this logic extends theoretical understandings regarding the identification of mechanisms through which institutional variables can impact and condition collaborative processes and so outcomes. While demonstrated here in the case of rural revitalization, these findings contribute to wider understandings of how collaborative endeavors can be fostered and enhanced and how robustness in social-ecological systems can be better supported.
Highlights Collaborative governance can foster co-creative solutions to rural issues. Institutions can be designed to support collaborative governance processes. This can then contribute to building robust social-ecological rural systems. Several institutional design features are demonstrated to contribute to robustness.
Building robustness for rural revitalization: A social-ecological system perspective
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2397-4970
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2948-7548
Abstract Collaborative governance has the potential to foster co-creative solutions to rural issues. Many rural areas have deteriorated due to rapid and encroaching urbanization and globalization. By building institutions to support and convey collaborative governance processes, rural areas can be revitalized and equipped with the ability to cope and evolve in the face of unexpected shocks and disturbances, they can be made robust. Concepts and arguments developed in a social-ecological systems framework are drawn on to flesh out a theoretical logic to aid understandings of how institutional design can enhance the robustness of a rural social-ecological system through fostering collaboration. A critical instance case study of a rural revitalization project undertaken at a traditional village in Hong Kong, Lai Chi Wo, allows for in-depth analysis of the relationship between intuitional design, collaborative governance and robustness. Through this case study, we show how institutions can be designed and built to foster collaborative processes and, hence, enhance the system's robustness. The demonstration of this logic extends theoretical understandings regarding the identification of mechanisms through which institutional variables can impact and condition collaborative processes and so outcomes. While demonstrated here in the case of rural revitalization, these findings contribute to wider understandings of how collaborative endeavors can be fostered and enhanced and how robustness in social-ecological systems can be better supported.
Highlights Collaborative governance can foster co-creative solutions to rural issues. Institutions can be designed to support collaborative governance processes. This can then contribute to building robust social-ecological rural systems. Several institutional design features are demonstrated to contribute to robustness.
Building robustness for rural revitalization: A social-ecological system perspective
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2397-4970
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2948-7548
Abstract Collaborative governance has the potential to foster co-creative solutions to rural issues. Many rural areas have deteriorated due to rapid and encroaching urbanization and globalization. By building institutions to support and convey collaborative governance processes, rural areas can be revitalized and equipped with the ability to cope and evolve in the face of unexpected shocks and disturbances, they can be made robust. Concepts and arguments developed in a social-ecological systems framework are drawn on to flesh out a theoretical logic to aid understandings of how institutional design can enhance the robustness of a rural social-ecological system through fostering collaboration. A critical instance case study of a rural revitalization project undertaken at a traditional village in Hong Kong, Lai Chi Wo, allows for in-depth analysis of the relationship between intuitional design, collaborative governance and robustness. Through this case study, we show how institutions can be designed and built to foster collaborative processes and, hence, enhance the system's robustness. The demonstration of this logic extends theoretical understandings regarding the identification of mechanisms through which institutional variables can impact and condition collaborative processes and so outcomes. While demonstrated here in the case of rural revitalization, these findings contribute to wider understandings of how collaborative endeavors can be fostered and enhanced and how robustness in social-ecological systems can be better supported.
Highlights Collaborative governance can foster co-creative solutions to rural issues. Institutions can be designed to support collaborative governance processes. This can then contribute to building robust social-ecological rural systems. Several institutional design features are demonstrated to contribute to robustness.
Building robustness for rural revitalization: A social-ecological system perspective
Chu, Vivian H.Y. (author) / Lam, Wai-Fung (author) / Williams, Jessica M. (author)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 101
2023-05-24
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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