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Stakeholder
Engagement:
Key to Effective Natural
Resource Management
Introduction
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• Content and Background– What are Natural Resources?
– What is Natural Resource Management?
– What is Stakeholder Engagement?
– Why is Engagement Key?
• Case Study – Watershed Awareness and Health
• Case Study – Disaster Risk Reduction Planning in Japan
• Workshop using what you’ve learned
Natural Resources
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• Air, Water, Plants and Animals, Atmosphere, etc.
• Specialized and fragile
• Not all NR are created equal
Natural Resource Management
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• Need to understand the full value of a NR
• Need to understand the public and the stakeholders relationship with the NR, and their other priorities
• Protection mechanisms
• Centralized vs Decentralized Protection Mechanisms
Stakeholder’s
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• “Movers and the Shakers”• Landowners• Influential Groups• Private Industry• Public• Youth• Religious leaders• Academics• Anyone with interest – YOU DON’T GET TO
CHOOSE!
Why is Stakeholder Engagement Key?
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• Management decisions affect the stakeholders
• In the absence we appear to be elitists
• We must maintain public trust and retain relationships
• It leads to the best projects
• They carry your message and can shift the paradigms of the citizens
Best Management Practices
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• Start with listening sessions (early and often)• Do research on your Stakeholders (Social Media,
Crowdsource• Move to small group meetings (listening and
learning)• Focus on influential leaders (Boundary Spanning
Organization)• Educate on a basic level (ignorance is not
incompetence)• Develop an action group/task force
– Charter, START THE DO!
Case Study #1
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Outreach and engagement for increasing watershed awareness and health
Case Study #1
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• Natural Resource: Watershed all Biota and Water Quality
• Stakeholders: Open Space Council (NGO), USEPA (FED), NFWF (NGO), Local Artists, and Stream Teams
• Pulled everyone together and applied for a $25,000 grant– Funded a Large Cleanup – 2,225 Citizen Volunteers
Cleaned up 500 Miles (805 km)
– Consolidation and Analysis of Stream Team Data Meramec Basin
– Outreach Component - Billboard
Billboard along Major Interstate
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Watershed Cairns
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Given the options of NOT being involved in the fix of a problem,
and HAVING the natural resource
problem, most would choose to HAVE the
problem
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• Scenario-based risk communication supporting multi-stakeholder engagement in disaster risk reduction (DRR) planning in Japan
• Community-based earthquake early warning system
• Trans-disciplinary approaches, governance of science and indigenous knowledge
• Disaster Risk Scenario Platform (DRSP)
Case Study #2
• Assisted by the Disaster Risk Information Platform (DRIP)
Traditional/hierarchical methods Multi-stakeholder approach
Scheme of a typical workshop design and processes
Expert, experiential, and local
• Sense of involvement in decision-making process
• More effective disaster risk management
• Crowdsourcing data
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Mas Dino RadinEnvironmental Studies Undergraduate at UniversitiBrunei Darussalam(673) [email protected]
Matt CosbyProject Manager and Urban Waters Ambassador(011) [email protected]
Contact Information
Workshop Activity
Stakeholders:• Government (G)• Community (C)• Private Sector (PS)• Academics (A)• NGOs
24 participants = 4 groups of 61 stakeholder role will have 2 representatives = the Pair
The policy has a total of 15 mandates;
• 10 of which have been pre-selected with scores ranging from -3 to +3 depending on the stakeholder
• and 10 to be decided by the stakeholders themselves
2 mandates per stakeholder and +1 point for each
Gain points as a stakeholder and as a group!
Policy: Insuring farmlands against natural disasters risks
Background information (extracted from United Nations University article, Green Investment in Asian Cities to Reduce Natural Disaster Risks):
"In order to avoid risks and damage, and to strengthen resilience to natural disasters, national and local governments need to be prepared. At the local level, authorities must take action to construct policy packages that include locally based risk prevention facilities as well as risk finance and risk transfer systems.
In addition to governments and private enterprises that offer financial support and the provision of necessary goods and services to cover losses post-disaster, risk financing and risk transfer tools such as insurance, reinsurance, and catastrophe-linked securities are key. Such tools help to reduce the negative economic impacts of extreme risks."
Mandates for Solutions to Disaster Risk Reduction
1. Disaster Risk Financing (i.e. insurance fund program) via Public-Private Partnerships.
• Government -2
• Community +3
• Private Sector -3
• Academics +1
• NGOs +2
2. Government sets out a financial mechanism for recovery and rehabilitation post disaster.• Government -3• Community -1• Private Sector +1• Academics +2• NGOs +3
3. NGOs to set up a social network to allow citizens to share disaster-related information such as clogged pipes to allow more efficient government response.• Government -2• Community +3• Private Sector -1• Academics +2• NGOs +3
4. Government to develop planning and zoning framework to limit farming opportunities near vulnerable areas
• Government +1
• Community -3
• Private Sector -2
• Academics -1
• NGOs -3
5. NGO to act as boundary spanning organization between Government and Researchers to facilitate applied research for the reduction disaster impacts
• Government +1
• Community -1
• Private Sector -3
• Academics +3
• NGOs +2
