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Evaluating 'good governance': The development of a quantitative tool in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem.

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Kisingo, A; Rollins, R; Murray, G; Dearden, P; Clarke, M
Published in: Journal of environmental management
October 2016

Protected areas (PAs) can provide important benefits to conservation and to communities. A key factor in the effective delivery of these benefits is the role of governance. There has been a growth in research developing frameworks to evaluate 'good' PA governance, usually drawing on a set of principles that are associated with groups of indicators. In contrast to dominant qualitative approaches, this paper describes the development of a quantitative method for measuring effectiveness of protected area governance, as perceived by stakeholders in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem in Tanzania. The research developed a quantitative method for developing effectiveness measures of PA governance, using a set of 65 statements related to governance principles developed from a literature review. The instrument was administered to 389 individuals from communities located near PAs in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem. The results of a factor analysis suggest that statements load onto 10 factors that demonstrate high psychometric validity as measured by factor loadings, explained variance, and Cronbach's alpha reliability. The ten common factors that were extracted were: 1) legitimacy, 2) transparency and accountability, 3) responsiveness, 4) fairness, 5) participation, 6) ecosystem based management (EBM) and connectivity, 7) resilience, 8) achievements, 9) consensus orientation, and 10) power. The paper concludes that quantitative surveys can be used to evaluate governance of protected areas from a community-level perspective.

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Published In

Journal of environmental management

DOI

EISSN

1095-8630

ISSN

0301-4797

Publication Date

October 2016

Volume

181

Start / End Page

749 / 755

Related Subject Headings

  • Tanzania
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Humans
  • Government
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Ecosystem
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Conservation of Natural Resources
  • Community Participation
 

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Kisingo, A., Rollins, R., Murray, G., Dearden, P., & Clarke, M. (2016). Evaluating 'good governance': The development of a quantitative tool in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem. Journal of Environmental Management, 181, 749–755. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.08.002
Kisingo, Alex, Rick Rollins, Grant Murray, Phil Dearden, and Marlea Clarke. “Evaluating 'good governance': The development of a quantitative tool in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem.Journal of Environmental Management 181 (October 2016): 749–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.08.002.
Kisingo A, Rollins R, Murray G, Dearden P, Clarke M. Evaluating 'good governance': The development of a quantitative tool in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem. Journal of environmental management. 2016 Oct;181:749–55.
Kisingo, Alex, et al. “Evaluating 'good governance': The development of a quantitative tool in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem.Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 181, Oct. 2016, pp. 749–55. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.08.002.
Kisingo A, Rollins R, Murray G, Dearden P, Clarke M. Evaluating 'good governance': The development of a quantitative tool in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem. Journal of environmental management. 2016 Oct;181:749–755.
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal of environmental management

DOI

EISSN

1095-8630

ISSN

0301-4797

Publication Date

October 2016

Volume

181

Start / End Page

749 / 755

Related Subject Headings

  • Tanzania
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Humans
  • Government
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Ecosystem
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Conservation of Natural Resources
  • Community Participation