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A network perspective on multi-scale water governance in the Lake Champlain Basin, Vermont
dc.contributor.author | Bitterman, Patrick | |
dc.contributor.author | Koliba, Christopher | |
dc.contributor.author | Signer, Anna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-25T17:21:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-06-25T17:21:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-03-31 | |
dc.identifier.citation | The following is the established format for referencing this article:Bitterman, P., C. Koliba, and A. Singer. 2023. A network perspective on multi-scale water governance in the Lake Champlain Basin, Vermont. Ecology and Society 28(1):44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14036-280144 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1808/35203 | |
dc.description.abstract | The prevalence and persistence of harmful cyanobacterial blooms demonstrate the importance of governance systems that effectively engage with many actors to address nonpoint pollution from a variety of sources across multiple spatial domains. Although the importance of social-ecological alignment on effective governance is increasingly clear, governance systems often evolve incrementally and in a manner that fails to adequately align resources and governance networks with biophysical structures, processes, and legacies. Through a survey of water governance actors in the Lake Champlain Basin, we map the structure of the water governance network and identify the key information brokers, flows of resources, and ongoing collaborative partnerships. We measure cross-scale and within-scale linkages to characterize the degree of coordination across space and scale using exponential random graph models, finding distinct differences in governance activities by mode of coordination. We also show that coordination in the system is largely a function of geographic proximity and shared issues of concern, demonstrating the importance of multidimensional, social-ecological perspectives in the collaborative governance of freshwater systems. Specific to the Lake Champlain Basin, our findings suggest that as the transformation of the governance system proceeds, cross-scale and inter-watershed coordination must be regularized to maintain learning and innovation across the system as it pursues its clean water goals. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Ecology and Society | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © by the author(s). Published here under license by The Resilience Alliance. This article is under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You may share and adapt the work provided the original author and source are credited, you indicate whether any changes were made, and you include a link to the license. ES-2023-14036.pdf | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | Exponential Random Graph Models | en_US |
dc.subject | Harmful algal blooms | en_US |
dc.subject | Network analysis | en_US |
dc.subject | Water governance | en_US |
dc.title | A network perspective on multi-scale water governance in the Lake Champlain Basin, Vermont | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Koliba, Christopher | |
kusw.kudepartment | Public Affairs and Administration | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14036-280144 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |
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