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Local groundwater management studies in Ontario, Canada: A case for retaining a role for the state in community-based water research

机译:加拿大安大略省的地方地下水管理研究:以州为单位在社区水研究中保留角色的案例

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Between 1998 and 2003, the provincial government in Ontario, Canada, administered a funding program to support groundwater management studies by local communities. The community focus of the initiative in many ways represents a more collaborative approach to generating the knowledge needed to inform local resource management decisions. The process and outcomes of the study program are assessed based on follow-up interviews with local study participants. We conclude that although the benefits of community-based research are apparent in many of the local study areas (eg. incorporation of local knowledge and values, and heightened community awareness of the need for groundwater protection), a lack of coordination among individual studies has resulted in the production of groundwater information that is incompatible across adjacent study areas and inadequate to support management measures at broader scales (eg. watershed). This outcome suggests the need for greater coordination within community-based water research initiatives where the results and subsequent management actions have potential implications beyond the immediate study boundaries. Thus, our analysis confirms a fundamental challenge of community-based research initiatives, and of decentralised governance approaches more generally - balancing the need for regional uniformity with the desire for greater local autonomy. Strategies for more effectively coordinating community-based water research are considered. While the analysis focuses on groundwater management and experiences in Ontario, the lessons learned are more broadly transferable.
机译:在1998年至2003年之间,加拿大安大略省政府实施了一项资助计划,以支持当地社区的地下水管理研究。该计划以社区为中心,在许多方面代表了一种更具协作性的方法,可用于生成为本地资源管理决策提供信息所需的知识。研究计划的过程和结果是根据对当地研究参与者的后续采访进行评估的。我们得出的结论是,尽管在许多地方研究领域中,以社区为基础的研究的好处是显而易见的(例如,纳入当地知识和价值观,并提高了社区对地下水保护需求的认识),但个别研究之间缺乏协调导致产生的地下水信息在相邻研究区域之间是不兼容的,并且不足以支持更广泛规模的管理措施(例如分水岭)。这一结果表明,需要在基于社区的水研究计划中加强协调,因为这些结果和后续的管理措施可能对研究产生直接影响。因此,我们的分析证实了以社区为基础的研究计划和更广泛的分散治理方法所面临的根本挑战-在区域统一的需求与更大的地方自治的需求之间取得平衡。考虑了更有效地协调基于社区的水研究的策略。尽管分析的重点是安大略省的地下水管理和经验,但所汲取的教训却可以广泛传播。

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