Evaluating the outcomes of collaborative wildlife governance: The role of social-ecological system context and collaboration dynamics

摘要: Abstract The acknowledgement of uncertainty and complexity in social-ecological systems has increased the implementation collaborative governance regimes for environmental issues. performance these new to deliver favourable social ecological outcomes must therefore be evaluated. We focus on case Swedish wildlife governance, which a tradition using elements. In relation moose (Alces alces), aspects were recently formalized an amended policy. aim assess some this regime’s with respect intermediate (i.e. quota fulfilment). use path analysis test causal effects system context collaboration dynamics outcomes. Collaboration assessed web-based survey sent all stakeholders Moose Management Groups (response rate = 82 %). Our originally specified model yielded good fit (SRMR .030 robust TLI .996) explained 20 % variation Context variables revealed significant direct Larger Areas fluctuations forage availability required more time investment from actors, while high land diversity density other ungulate species negatively affected fulfilment. that invested perceived have knowledge base achieved better thus had positive effect From policy perspective, our results raise questions regarding institutional because factors negative process.