What does comanagement offer? Exploring users' knowledge through mental models in the fishery of La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

In the context of collaborative resource management, mental models can provide insights on participants' understanding of the resource management system and in so doing allow researchers and practitioners to derive lessons about the success or failure of comanagement approaches. We analyzed ind...

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Autores principales:	Laia d'Armengol, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Cecile Barnaud, Esteve Corbera
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Publicado:	Resilience Alliance 2021
Materias:	collaborative management protected area shared decision making small-scale fishery Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/7a07ba8e2e884629af59d8f6d209c7c1
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7a07ba8e2e884629af59d8f6d209c7c12021-12-02T14:14:42ZWhat does comanagement offer? Exploring users' knowledge through mental models in the fishery of La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, Mexico1708-308710.5751/ES-12177-260125https://doaj.org/article/7a07ba8e2e884629af59d8f6d209c7c12021-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss1/art25/https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087In the context of collaborative resource management, mental models can provide insights on participants' understanding of the resource management system and in so doing allow researchers and practitioners to derive lessons about the success or failure of comanagement approaches. We analyzed individual and group mental models in the comanaged small-scale fishery of La Encrucijada, Mexico, active since 2009. Mental models reveal a strong consensus around the idea that the comanagement initiative is a government-led partnership to subsidize fishers. This belief reflects a history of state paternalism and coexists with a diversity of views about who are the actors involved in comanagement, their role in the fishery, and the resources mobilized through comanagement. We argue that local participants' limited understanding of the collaborative mechanisms established by the comanagement initiative suggests a failure of the promoting actors to communicate the initiative's environmental and social goals and to exploit its transformative potential in terms of actors' empowerment and participation in the long term. This research contributes to the burgeoning literature on the use of mental models as a means to unravel the cognitive aspects that may lie underneath the success or failure of natural resource governance.Laia d'ArmengolIsabel Ruiz-MallénCecile BarnaudEsteve CorberaResilience Alliancearticlecollaborative managementprotected areashared decision makingsmall-scale fisheryBiology (General)QH301-705.5EcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Society, Vol 26, Iss 1, p 25 (2021)
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spellingShingle	collaborative management protected area shared decision making small-scale fishery Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 Laia d'Armengol Isabel Ruiz-Mallén Cecile Barnaud Esteve Corbera What does comanagement offer? Exploring users' knowledge through mental models in the fishery of La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
description	In the context of collaborative resource management, mental models can provide insights on participants' understanding of the resource management system and in so doing allow researchers and practitioners to derive lessons about the success or failure of comanagement approaches. We analyzed individual and group mental models in the comanaged small-scale fishery of La Encrucijada, Mexico, active since 2009. Mental models reveal a strong consensus around the idea that the comanagement initiative is a government-led partnership to subsidize fishers. This belief reflects a history of state paternalism and coexists with a diversity of views about who are the actors involved in comanagement, their role in the fishery, and the resources mobilized through comanagement. We argue that local participants' limited understanding of the collaborative mechanisms established by the comanagement initiative suggests a failure of the promoting actors to communicate the initiative's environmental and social goals and to exploit its transformative potential in terms of actors' empowerment and participation in the long term. This research contributes to the burgeoning literature on the use of mental models as a means to unravel the cognitive aspects that may lie underneath the success or failure of natural resource governance.
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author	Laia d'Armengol Isabel Ruiz-Mallén Cecile Barnaud Esteve Corbera
author_facet	Laia d'Armengol Isabel Ruiz-Mallén Cecile Barnaud Esteve Corbera
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title	What does comanagement offer? Exploring users' knowledge through mental models in the fishery of La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
title_short	What does comanagement offer? Exploring users' knowledge through mental models in the fishery of La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
title_full	What does comanagement offer? Exploring users' knowledge through mental models in the fishery of La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
title_fullStr	What does comanagement offer? Exploring users' knowledge through mental models in the fishery of La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
title_full_unstemmed	What does comanagement offer? Exploring users' knowledge through mental models in the fishery of La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
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publisher	Resilience Alliance
publishDate	2021
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What does comanagement offer? Exploring users' knowledge through mental models in the fishery of La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

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