TY - JOUR
T1 - Institutional barriers and opportunities
T2 - Processes and arrangements for natural resource management in Australia
AU - Dovers, S.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - While "institutional failure" is commonly cited as a core barrier to sustainable resource management, operational prescriptions or criteria for institutional design are rare. Institutions are crucial, and may be barriers or opportunities. This article offers some principles and design features for "adaptive" institutions, capable of balancing the core principles of persistence, purposefulness, information-richness, inclusiveness and flexibility. It then draws on emerging findings from recent Australian research to identify some major institutional barriers and opportunities for improving capacities in sustainable resource management.
AB - While "institutional failure" is commonly cited as a core barrier to sustainable resource management, operational prescriptions or criteria for institutional design are rare. Institutions are crucial, and may be barriers or opportunities. This article offers some principles and design features for "adaptive" institutions, capable of balancing the core principles of persistence, purposefulness, information-richness, inclusiveness and flexibility. It then draws on emerging findings from recent Australian research to identify some major institutional barriers and opportunities for improving capacities in sustainable resource management.
KW - Australia
KW - Institutions
KW - Policy
KW - Resource management
KW - Water
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0034964834&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2166/wst.2001.0543
DO - 10.2166/wst.2001.0543
M3 - Article
SN - 0273-1223
VL - 43
SP - 215
EP - 226
JO - Water Science and Technology
JF - Water Science and Technology
IS - 9
ER -