This document discusses the relationship between good governance and protecting vital ecosystems. It defines good governance according to the World Bank's indicators and examines how governance matters for outcomes like forest cover change and biodiversity. It then explores various "misfits" like temporal, spatial, thresholds, and cascading dynamics misfits that can occur between social and ecological systems. The document considers whether adaptive governance may help address these challenges and differences between governance, institutions, adaptive management, and adaptive co-management.

1. High
Medium
Low
Very Low
No data/n.a.
”Good Governance” according to the World Bank:
Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of
Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory
Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption.

2. High
Medium
Low
Very Low
No data/n.a.
Does ”good governance” matter for protecting
vital ecosystems?

3. Forest Cover Change

4. Biodiversity (bird population)
High levels of corruption Low levels of corruption

6. Spatial misfit
Local institutions vs. global driver/s
Global Fisheries? ”Land grab”?
Municipal institutions vs. Water
catchment

7. Temporal misfits

8. The Sahel region 1950s-60s

9. ”Roving Bandits” F. Berkes et. al. 2006

10. Cod stock collapse, Newfoundland, (Canada)Thresholds misfit

13. Cascading dynamics and
misfits

14. Fish and Ebola virus

15. Fish stock
decrease
Increased
bushmeat
hunting
Coral reef
Agro-
ecosystems
Climate
change

16. Is it at all possible?
Institutions, polycentric order,
social networks, global
governance, bridging
organizations, innovation and
learning in social networks,
transformation.

17. Difference institutions and governance?
Institutions are ”the rules of the game”.
’Governance’ implies collaborationpatterns,
steering, and coordination at multiple levels.
Institutional in governancetend to be
”clusters” or ”complexes”, rather than simple
set of rules.
Think about how they relate to the dynamics
behavior of SES a.k.a. ”problem of fit”

18. What is adaptive governance?
“Adaptive governance denote models
of steering, coordination and
information sharing that are able to
respond, and sometimes even
transform systems in the face of
uncertainty, change and surprise.”
(Folke et al. 2005, Dietz et al. 2003).

19. How is it different from
“adaptive management”?
Adaptive governance differs from “adaptive
management" because the idea of "governance”
conveys the difficulty of control, the need to
proceed in the face of substantial uncertainty, and
the importance of dealing with diversity and
reconciling conflict among people and groups who
differ in values, interests, perspectives, power, and
the kinds of information they bring to situations
(from Dietz et al. 2003, p. 1911).

20. How is it different from
adaptive co-management?
Adaptive co-management entail flexible
community-based systems of resource management
tailored to specific places and situations, and they
are supported by and work with various
organizations at different levels. (from Folke et al.
2005: 448).
It differs from adaptive governance as the latter is
not necessarily place-bound, and places more
emphasis on theory development and exploration of
the interplay between actors, institutions and social-
ecological dynamics in polycentric settings (Folke et
al. 2005, Galaz et al. 2008) .

21. Speed of
change
Fast
Slow
UncertaintyLow High
Spatial
distr
Limited
Very large