Collaboration mobilises institutions with scale-dependent comparative advantage in landscape-scale biodiversity conservation

摘要: Landscape-scale approaches are emerging as central to ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation globally, triggering the requirement for collaboration between multiple actors associated risks including knowledge asymmetries; institutional fragmentation; uncertainty; power imbalances; “invisible” slow-changing variables; entrenched socio-economic inequities. While social science has elucidated some dimensions required effective collaboration, little is known about how manages these risks, or of its effects on social-ecological linkages. Our analysis four different Australian contexts shows they mobilised institutions matched addressing environmental threats, at diverse scales across regulatory non-regulatory domains. The included national controls development that threatened habitat, incentives farmers practice-change, mechanisms increased resources on-ground fire pest management. Knowledge-sharing underpinned risk was facilitated through use boundary objects, enhanced multi-stakeholder peer review processes, interactive spatial platforms, Aboriginal-driven planning. Institutions in collaborations show scale-dependent comparative advantage threats. findings confirm need shift scientific attention away from theorising ideal-scale governance. We argue instead a focus understanding knowledge-sharing activities can more effectively connect threats with most capable institution address