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Collaborative Spaces and Places

This research explores collaborative processes within the CABY (California's Sierra Nevada) region, focusing on stakeholder participation in integrated water resource management (IRWMP). Highlighting the importance of managing relationships over just resources, it investigates diverse knowledge systems, network structures, and the impact of historical legacies on water management. The study employs ethnographic methods, stakeholder social network analysis, and knowledge mapping to understand the dynamics of collaborative resilience, providing insights for better governance and adaptive water management strategies.

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Collaborative Spaces and Places

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  1. Collaborative Spaces and Places Liz Gladin Research Associate, SEI; Oxford, UK & Davis, Ca. USA Doctoral Candidate, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

  2. ‘natural resource management is much more about managing relationships than managing resources’ (Natcher 2007)

  3. Research Context • IRWMP: transition to new governance model • Widening stakeholder participation in NRM: exploring the ‘stakeholder infrastructure’ • Water resources, uses and users: influences on management, historical legacies, water rights, information needs for collaborative decision making

  4. Sierra Nevada watersheds CABY Region Study Area - 4 watersheds highly integrated water resource infrastructure CABY region

  5. The CABY IRWMP

  6. WEAP Model for the CABY Watershed WEAP model schematic • Model includes: • 324 catchments • 25 Reservoirs • 39 diversions • 33 hydropower plants • 14 transmission links to • 13 major water demands

  7. Additional Pressures • Changing/conflicting policy landscapes. • Upstream/in-region demands. • Downstream/out-of-region demands. • Fiscal Pressures on resources. • Uncertainty: climate change, land use change, information needs.

  8. Research Questions • Collaborative process in CABY region? • Form of SH participation? • Multiple ‘Knowledges’ and values ? • Network structures/processes? • Impact on collaboration of multiple overlapping processes/participation? • IRWMP regions within Sierra Region?

  9. CABY Region Stakeholder Infrastructure includes • IRWMP: state funding mechanism: state directive. • FERC Hydro-relicensing application processes : federal mandatory. • Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP): state mandatory. • Yuba Salmon Forum (YSF) : watershed-based voluntary. • Sierra Water Works Group (SWWG) : Sierra-wide IRWMP group – voluntary.

  10. Research Approach • Ethnographic – interviews, participant-observation. • Stakeholder / Social Network analysis : SH meetings, public outreach meetings, project collaborations • Knowledge mapping: disciplinary, professional, experiential, cultural • Document analysis: organizational mission statements, SH participation guidelines, legislation/regulatory, response letters.

  11. SNA map US political blogging

  12. CABY Region Collaborative Forums

  13. Building Capacity for Collaborative Resilience • Spatial and temporal ‘nesting’ • Diversity – heterogeneity, asymmetry, redundancy in resource/social /institutional components. • Changes in network structure, process • Self-organizing systems: accountability and ‘leadership’ @ sense-making, challenging, facilitating • Knowledge: substantive, strategic – ‘ecology of games’; (Social) learning, uncertainties, adaptive

  14. Building Capacity for Collaborative Resilience • ‘Fuzzy and overlapping’ collaborative networks • Collaboration as a temporal and spatial process, not an event – collaborative memory • Importance of place-based associations and spatial (re)scaling

  15. Managing relationships

  16. Thank you. Feedback & Comments welcome Liz Gladin: liz.gladin@gmail.com

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