面对气候变化的自然资源治理是人类世的开创性挑战之一。已经开发了许多创新方法,其中,生态学领域,治理,和可持续发展科学,通过协调的自然资源治理方法来管理不确定性和稀缺性。然而,在文献中,缺乏有利的法律和监管框架已被确定为限制这些治理方法正式运作的主要障碍之一。在本文中,我们展示了这些方法如何为分析自然资源治理空间中政府各级和部门的程序任务提供工具。我们还发现,没有充分考虑到现有法律法规在跨部门和多层次协调自然资源治理方面的潜力。在此基础上,我们开发并应用了一个协议,该协议借鉴了传统的法律理论分析方法来演示如何识别现有的,通过对南非水资源的深入案例研究,促进自然资源协调治理的法律能力。然后,我们将展示如何在现有法律结构中实施这些未开发的能力,以改善自然资源治理。Further,这个协议可以移植到其他国家,各省(州),和世界各地的地方。
Natural resource governance in the face of climate change represents one of the seminal challenges of the Anthropocene. A number of innovative approaches have been developed in, among others, the fields of ecology, governance, and sustainability sciences for managing uncertainty and scarcity through a coordinated approach to natural resource governance. However, the absence of an enabling legal and regulatory framework has been identified in the literature as one of the primary barriers constraining the formal operationalization of these governance approaches. In this paper, we show how these approaches provide tools for analyzing procedural mandates across governmental levels and sectors in the natural resource governance space. We also find that there has been inadequate consideration of the potential in existing laws and regulations for cross-sectoral and multi-level coordination of natural resource governance. On this basis, we develop and apply a protocol that draws on the traditional legal method of doctrinal analysis to demonstrate how to identify existing, untapped legal capacity to promote coordinated governance of natural resources through an in-depth case study of water resources in South Africa. We then show how these untapped capacities within existing legal structures may be operationalized to improve natural resource governance. Further, this protocol is portable to other countries, provinces (states), and localities around the world.