Publication Date

1-1-2021

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Society and Natural Resources

Volume

34

Issue

8

DOI

10.1080/08941920.2021.1936717

First Page

1111

Last Page

1132

Abstract

Incorporating stakeholder engagement into environmental management may help in the pursuit of novel approaches for addressing complex water resource problems. However, evidence about how and under what circumstances stakeholder engagement enables desirable changes remains elusive. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for studying social and environmental changes possible through stakeholder engagement in water resource management, from inception to outcomes. We synthesize concepts from multiple literatures to provide a framework for tracing linkages from contextual conditions, through engagement process design features, to social learning, community capacity building, and behavioral change at individual, group, and group network levels, and ultimately to environmental change. We discuss opportunities to enhance the framework including through empirical applications to delineate scalar and temporal dimensions of social, behavioral, and environmental changes resulting from stakeholder engagement, and the potential for negative outcomes thus far glossed over in research on change through engagement.

Funding Number

1013079

Funding Sponsor

National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Keywords

collective action, community capacity building, conceptual framework, social learning, Stakeholder engagement, water resource management

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Department

Anthropology

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