Abeysinghe Nisansala, O'Bryan Christopher J, Rhodes Jonathan R, McDonald-Madden Eve, Guerrero Angela M
School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia; Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia; Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia; System Earth Science, Maastricht University, Venlo, the Netherlands.
J Environ Manage. 2024 Aug;365:121424. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121424. Epub 2024 Jun 18.
Effective management of invasive species requires collaboration across a range of stakeholders. These stakeholders exhibit diverse attributes such as organisation types, operational scale, objectives, and roles within projects. Identifying the diverse attributes of stakeholders is beneficial for increasing collaboration success while minimising potential conflicts among multiple stakeholders when managing invasive species across landscapes. Despite the increasing number of studies on connections among stakeholders, there is little understanding of the diverse attributes of stakeholders involved in invasive species management. This is a notable gap because the diversity of stakeholders is one of the significant factors that can influence collaboration success. To bridge this knowledge gap, we used a social network approach to identify the attributes of stakeholders that influence their participation in collaborations using a case study of invasive wild pig (Sus scrofa) management in Queensland, Australia. Our findings suggest that even though the overall stakeholder network was diverse, the stakeholder network at the project level exhibited a lack of diversity on average, particularly regarding the scale of operation and type of organisation. In other words, stakeholders are highly likely to form ties in projects involving other stakeholders from similar types of organisations or operational scales. We suggest that targeting a greater diversity of stakeholders across types of organisations and scales of operations might enhance the success of collaborative invasive species management.
有效管理入侵物种需要一系列利益相关者之间的合作。这些利益相关者具有不同的属性，如组织类型、运营规模、目标以及在项目中的角色。识别利益相关者的不同属性，有利于提高合作成功率，同时在跨区域管理入侵物种时，将多个利益相关者之间的潜在冲突降至最低。尽管关于利益相关者之间联系的研究越来越多，但对于参与入侵物种管理的利益相关者的不同属性却知之甚少。这是一个显著的差距，因为利益相关者的多样性是影响合作成功的重要因素之一。为了弥补这一知识差距，我们采用了一种社会网络方法，以澳大利亚昆士兰入侵野猪（Sus scrofa）管理的案例研究来识别影响利益相关者参与合作的属性。我们的研究结果表明，尽管整体利益相关者网络具有多样性，但项目层面的利益相关者网络平均而言缺乏多样性，特别是在运营规模和组织类型方面。换句话说，利益相关者很可能在涉及来自类似组织类型或运营规模的其他利益相关者的项目中建立联系。我们建议，针对不同组织类型和运营规模的更多样化的利益相关者，可能会提高合作性入侵物种管理的成功率。
