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Evolving governance arrangements in multi-tenure reserve networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2008

JAMES A. FITZSIMONS  and
GEOFF WESCOTT
JAMES A. FITZSIMONS*
Affiliation:
School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125Australia
GEOFF WESCOTT
Affiliation:
School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125Australia
*
*Correspondence: Dr James Fitzsimons, Victorian Environmental Assessment Council, Level 6, 8 Nicholson Street, East Melbourne, VIC 3002Australia, Tel: +61 3 9637 8427 Fax: +61 3 9637 8024 e-mail: james.fitzsimons@deakin.edu.au
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Multi-tenure reserve networks (MTRNs) aim to connect areas managed for biodiversity conservation across public and private land (for example biosphere reserves (BRs) and conservation management networks (CMNs)). A key function of MTRNs is facilitating communication, information exchange and management activities between land managers of differing tenures not usually in contact with each other; governance arrangements are therefore crucial. Australian MTRNs vary greatly in their goals and measures of success, criteria for entry, ecosystems targeted, geographic extent and financial arrangements. The successful operation of a MTRN is likely to be influenced by a manager's confidence in the governance model/coordination arrangements (Belcher & Wellman 1991). We analysed the organizational structure of three Australian MTRNs (Fig. 1) including the objectives and role of the coordinating body, entry requirements, goals and measures of success, restrictions placed on the geographic or ecological extent of the network and financial arrangements. We highlight how substantial changes in governance arrangements have occurred for two of three networks studied, suggesting a fluid evolution of MTRN structures is likely.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 5 - 7
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2008

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