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  • A method for risk analysis across governance systems: A Great Barrier Reef case study

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    Dale, Allan
    Vella, Karen
    Pressey, Robert
    Brodie, Jon
    Yorkston, Hugh
    Potts, Ruth
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Potts, Ruth
    Vella, Karen
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    Healthy governance systems are key to delivering sound environmental management outcomes from global to local scales. There are, however, surprisingly few risk assessment methods that can pinpoint those domains and sub-domains within governance systems that are most likely to influence good environmental outcomes at any particular scale, or those if absent or dysfunctional, most likely to prevent effective environmental management. This paper proposes a new risk assessment method for analysing governance systems. This method is then tested through its preliminary application to a significant real-world context: governance ...
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    Healthy governance systems are key to delivering sound environmental management outcomes from global to local scales. There are, however, surprisingly few risk assessment methods that can pinpoint those domains and sub-domains within governance systems that are most likely to influence good environmental outcomes at any particular scale, or those if absent or dysfunctional, most likely to prevent effective environmental management. This paper proposes a new risk assessment method for analysing governance systems. This method is then tested through its preliminary application to a significant real-world context: governance as it relates to the health of Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR). The GBR exists at a supra-regional scale along most of the north eastern coast of Australia. Brodie et al (2012 Mar. Pollut. Bull. 65 81-100) have recently reviewed the state and trend of the health of the GBR, finding that overall trends remain of significant concern. At the same time, official international concern over the governance of the reef has recently been signalled globally by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). These environmental and political contexts make the GBR an ideal candidate for use in testing and reviewing the application of improved tools for governance risk assessment.
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    Journal Title
    Environmental Research Letters
    Volume
    8
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015037
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    © The Author(s) 2013.Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
    Subject
    Natural Resource Management
    Land Use and Environmental Planning
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/52466
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