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标题：Facilitating Transitional Processes in Rigid Institutional Regimes for Water Management and Wetland Conservation: Experience from the Guadalquivir Estuary
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作者：Pablo F. Méndez ; Nicola Isendahl ; Jaime M. Amezaga 等
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2012
卷号：17
期号：1
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：Traditional policies for water resources management and wetland conservation are often based on command-and-control approaches. The latter tend to drive the human–wetland–water system into pathological states, characterized by morevulnerable ecosystems and rigid institutions for governance. The overcoming of these states may rest in the development offlexible and adaptive institutional regimes that rely on adaptive governance and management. Because past factors might constrainthe implementation of more flexible adaptive approaches to management, it is important to understand the historical mechanismsunderlying the genesis of institutional rigidity. We first present the results of a historical analysis of Do.ana, which can becharacterized as a pathological water socio-ecosystem governed through rigid institutional regimes for water resourcesmanagement and wetland conservation. In a second step, we analyze the advances achieved during a recent, large-scale restorationprogram for the Do.ana wetlands, which adhered explicitly to the tenets of adaptive management. Our analysis indicated thatthe historical persistence of command-and-control approaches has been a path-dependent process that led to the emergence ofa rigid institutional regime and caused it to enter a rigidity trap. However, the achievements of the restoration program suggestthat a more flexible and adaptive regime could be developed through the introduction of adaptive management at the operationallevels, using specifically tailored action research programs. To conclude, we speculate that the research strategy outlined couldbe extended to comply with, or complement, the requirements of the EU's Water Framework Directive in other European watersocio-ecosystems
关键词：action research; adaptive cycle; adaptive management; command and control; Do.ana; Guadalquivir Estuary;path dependence; rigid institutional regimes; Water Framework Directive