CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences and CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
Environ Monit Assess. 2012 Dec;184(12):7207-20. doi: 10.1007/s10661-011-2491-y. Epub 2012 Jan 19.
Natural resource (NR) outcomes at catchment scale rely heavily on the adoption of sustainable practices by private NR managers because they control the bulk of the NR assets. Public funds are invested in capacity building of private landholders to encourage adoption of more sustainable natural resource management (NRM) practices. However, prioritisation of NRM funding programmes has often been top-down with limited understanding of the multiple dimensions of landholder capacity leading to a failure to address the underlying capacity constraints of local communities. We argue that well-designed participatory monitoring and evaluation of landholder capacity can provide a mechanism to codify the tacit knowledge of landholders about the social-ecological systems in which they are embedded. This process enables tacit knowledge to be used by regional NRM bodies and government agencies to guide NRM investment in the Australian state of New South Wales. This paper details the collective actions to remove constraints to improved NRM that were identified by discrete groups of landholders through this process. The actions spanned geographical and temporal scales, and responsibility for them ranged across levels of governance.
流域尺度上的自然资源（NR）产出在很大程度上依赖于私人 NR 管理者采用可持续实践，因为他们控制着大部分 NR 资产。公共资金被投入到私人土地所有者的能力建设中，以鼓励他们采用更可持续的自然资源管理（NRM）实践。然而，NRM 资助计划的优先排序往往是自上而下的，对土地所有者能力的多个维度缺乏了解，导致无法解决当地社区的基本能力约束。我们认为，精心设计的参与式监测和评估土地所有者的能力可以为编纂土地所有者关于其所处社会-生态系统的隐性知识提供一种机制。这一过程使隐性知识能够被区域 NRM 机构和政府机构用来指导新南威尔士州澳大利亚的 NRM 投资。本文详细介绍了通过这一过程，由不同群体的土地所有者确定的、旨在消除对改进 NRM 约束的集体行动。这些行动跨越了地理和时间尺度，责任范围涉及各级治理。
