Collaborative Spaces and Places

1. Collaborative Spaces and Places Liz Gladin Research Associate, SEI; Oxford, UK & Davis, Ca. USA Doctoral Candidate, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

2. ‘natural resource management is much more about managing relationships than managing resources’ (Natcher 2007)

3. Research Context • IRWMP: transition to new governance model • Widening stakeholder participation in NRM: exploring the ‘stakeholder infrastructure’ • Water resources, uses and users: influences on management, historical legacies, water rights, information needs for collaborative decision making

5. Sierra Nevada watersheds CABY Region Study Area - 4 watersheds highly integrated water resource infrastructure CABY region

6. The CABY IRWMP

7. WEAP Model for the CABY Watershed WEAP model schematic • Model includes: • 324 catchments • 25 Reservoirs • 39 diversions • 33 hydropower plants • 14 transmission links to • 13 major water demands

9. Additional Pressures • Changing/conflicting policy landscapes. • Upstream/in-region demands. • Downstream/out-of-region demands. • Fiscal Pressures on resources. • Uncertainty: climate change, land use change, information needs.

10. Research Questions • Collaborative process in CABY region? • Form of SH participation? • Multiple ‘Knowledges’ and values ? • Network structures/processes? • Impact on collaboration of multiple overlapping processes/participation? • IRWMP regions within Sierra Region?

11. CABY Region Stakeholder Infrastructure includes • IRWMP: state funding mechanism: state directive. • FERC Hydro-relicensing application processes : federal mandatory. • Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP): state mandatory. • Yuba Salmon Forum (YSF) : watershed-based voluntary. • Sierra Water Works Group (SWWG) : Sierra-wide IRWMP group – voluntary.

12. Research Approach • Ethnographic – interviews, participant-observation. • Stakeholder / Social Network analysis : SH meetings, public outreach meetings, project collaborations • Knowledge mapping: disciplinary, professional, experiential, cultural • Document analysis: organizational mission statements, SH participation guidelines, legislation/regulatory, response letters.

13. SNA map US political blogging

14. CABY Region Collaborative Forums

15. Building Capacity for Collaborative Resilience • Spatial and temporal ‘nesting’ • Diversity – heterogeneity, asymmetry, redundancy in resource/social /institutional components. • Changes in network structure, process • Self-organizing systems: accountability and ‘leadership’ @ sense-making, challenging, facilitating • Knowledge: substantive, strategic – ‘ecology of games’; (Social) learning, uncertainties, adaptive

16. Building Capacity for Collaborative Resilience • ‘Fuzzy and overlapping’ collaborative networks • Collaboration as a temporal and spatial process, not an event – collaborative memory • Importance of place-based associations and spatial (re)scaling

17. Managing relationships

18. Thank you. Feedback & Comments welcome Liz Gladin: liz.gladin@gmail.com