Department of Forest & Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Environ Manage. 2012 Mar;49(3):675-89. doi: 10.1007/s00267-011-9801-6. Epub 2011 Dec 31.
Community-based collaborative groups involved in public natural resource management are assuming greater roles in planning, project implementation, and monitoring. This entails the capacity of collaborative groups to develop and sustain new organizational structures, processes, and strategies, yet there is a lack of understanding what constitutes collaborative capacity. In this paper, we present a framework for assessing collaborative capacities associated with community-based public forest management in the US. The framework is inductively derived from case study research and observations of 30 federal forest-related collaborative efforts. Categories were cross-referenced with literature on collaboration across a variety of contexts. The framework focuses on six arenas of collaborative action: (1) organizing, (2) learning, (3) deciding, (4) acting, (5) evaluating, and (6) legitimizing. Within each arena are capacities expressed through three levels of social agency: individuals, the collaborative group itself, and participating or external organizations. The framework provides a language and set of organizing principles for understanding and assessing collaborative capacity in the context of community-based public forest management. The framework allows groups to assess what capacities they already have and what more is needed. It also provides a way for organizations supporting collaboratives to target investments in building and sustaining their collaborative capacities. The framework can be used by researchers as a set of independent variables against which to measure collaborative outcomes across a large population of collaborative efforts.
参与公共自然资源管理的基于社区的协作团体在规划、项目实施和监测方面发挥着越来越大的作用。这需要协作团体有能力制定和维持新的组织结构、流程和战略，但对于构成协作能力的要素还缺乏了解。在本文中，我们提出了一个评估美国基于社区的公共森林管理中协作能力的框架。该框架是从案例研究和对 30 个与联邦森林相关的协作努力的观察中归纳得出的。类别与各种背景下的合作文献进行了交叉参考。该框架侧重于协作行动的六个领域：（1）组织，（2）学习，（3）决策，（4）行动，（5）评估和（6）合法化。在每个领域中，都有通过三个层次的社会机构表达的能力：个人、协作团体本身以及参与或外部组织。该框架为理解和评估基于社区的公共森林管理背景下的协作能力提供了一种语言和一套组织原则。该框架使团体能够评估他们已经拥有的能力以及还需要什么。它还为支持协作的组织提供了一种针对建立和维持其协作能力进行投资的方法。该框架可被研究人员用作衡量大量协作努力中协作成果的一组独立变量。
