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Internationally, the decentralization of forest management from central government control to collaborative stewardship by local communities is gaining popularity. Forest decentralization is seen as a means of promoting both conservation and community economic development while decreasing government agencies’ management burdens. However, not all community forest programs have been able to successfully achieve both forest conservation and socio-economic development. A growing body of literature identifies under what circumstances local groups can collective action dilemmas in resource management. While a wealth of literature focuses on institutional influence in common-pool resource management, recent research emphasizes the need to understand both how the local context and local governance structures influence community forestry outcomes. The goal of this study is to understand how governance and community resources interact to facilitate or impede the establishment and management of community-based forest enterprises. This paper addresses this question through a cross-case analysis of community forest enterprises in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. Results highlight the importance of social capital reflecting a growing body of research that has found that local-level network-based relationships are an important factor that either facilitates or impedes community governance processes. In addition, for many attributes of good governance, the resources that are typically seen as the most difficult to measure such as cultural capital, human capital and social relationships were also seen as having the greatest impact on governance.
Megan Butler; Dean Current. Relationship between community capitals and governance: The perspective of local actors in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. World Development Perspectives 2021, 21, 100294 .
AMA StyleMegan Butler, Dean Current. Relationship between community capitals and governance: The perspective of local actors in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. World Development Perspectives. 2021; 21 ():100294.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMegan Butler; Dean Current. 2021. "Relationship between community capitals and governance: The perspective of local actors in the Maya Biosphere Reserve." World Development Perspectives 21, no. : 100294.
Treatment wetlands are increasingly needed to remove nitrate from agricultural drainage water to protect downstream waters, such as the Gulf of Mexico. This project sought to develop a new edge-of-field treatment wetland, designed to remove nitrate-nitrogen and enhance phosphorus removal by plant harvest and to monitor its effectiveness. A 0.10 ha wetland was designed and installed to treat subsurface drainage flow from farmland in southwestern Minnesota, USA, in 2013, and monitored for three years by recording flow, nitrate-nitrogen, total phosphorus (TP) and soluble orthophosphorus (OP) input to and output from the wetland. Prior to construction, a level-pool routing, mass balance approach with DRAINMOD flow inputs was used to predict nitrate removal efficiency. Nitrate load removal averaged 68% over three years, nearly matching model predictions. However, most denitrification occurred in the sub-soil of the wetland rather than in surface flow as predicted. Phosphorus removal was approximately 76% over three years, and phosphorus removed by plant uptake exceeded inflow mass in the third year. The edge-of-field design has potential as a cost-effective method to treat field outflows because agricultural landowners can adopt this treatment system with minimal loss of productive farmland. The wet-prairie vegetation and shallow depth also provide the opportunity to remove additional phosphorus via vegetative harvest.
Christian Lenhart; Brad Gordon; Joshua Gamble; Dean Current; Nikol Ross; Lydia Herring; John Nieber; Heidi Peterson. Design and Hydrologic Performance of a Tile Drainage Treatment Wetland in Minnesota, USA. Water 2016, 8, 549 .
AMA StyleChristian Lenhart, Brad Gordon, Joshua Gamble, Dean Current, Nikol Ross, Lydia Herring, John Nieber, Heidi Peterson. Design and Hydrologic Performance of a Tile Drainage Treatment Wetland in Minnesota, USA. Water. 2016; 8 (12):549.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristian Lenhart; Brad Gordon; Joshua Gamble; Dean Current; Nikol Ross; Lydia Herring; John Nieber; Heidi Peterson. 2016. "Design and Hydrologic Performance of a Tile Drainage Treatment Wetland in Minnesota, USA." Water 8, no. 12: 549.
Dean A. Current; Kenneth N. Brooks; Peter F. Ffolliott; Meagan Keefe. Moving agroforestry into the mainstream. Agroforestry Systems 2008, 75, 1 -3.
AMA StyleDean A. Current, Kenneth N. Brooks, Peter F. Ffolliott, Meagan Keefe. Moving agroforestry into the mainstream. Agroforestry Systems. 2008; 75 (1):1-3.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDean A. Current; Kenneth N. Brooks; Peter F. Ffolliott; Meagan Keefe. 2008. "Moving agroforestry into the mainstream." Agroforestry Systems 75, no. 1: 1-3.