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DOI	10.3390/land9070227
	Unpacking Changing Multi-Actor and Multi-Level Actor Ties in Transformative Spaces: Insights from a Degraded Landscape, Machubeni, South Africa
	Falayi, Menelisi; Gambiza, James; Schoon, Michael
通讯作者	Falayi, M
来源期刊	LAND
EISSN	2073-445X
出版年	2020
卷号	9 期号:7
英文摘要	The loss of ecosystem services through land degradation continues to be a significant concern for policymakers and land users around the world. Facilitating collective action among various actors is regarded as imperative in halting land degradation. Despite extensive research on collective action, there have been few studies that continuously map social ties and detect network evolution as a way of enabling longitudinal analysis of transformative spaces. This paper seeks to examine the changing dynamics of multi-actor and multi-level actor ties over a period of two years in Machubeni, South Africa. To do this, we used social network analysis to detect continuities and/or discontinuities of multi-actor and multi-level actor ties over time. Overall, edge density, clustering coefficient, and reciprocity scores steadily increased over the two years despite a decline in the number of active organisations within the network. Our results demonstrate that the proportion of strong ties gradually increased over time across three governance networks. However, multi-level linkages between the local municipality and the local organisations remained weak due to a lack of trust and collaborative fatigue. While the transformative space has succeeded in enhancing collaboration and knowledge sharing between local organisations and researchers, further long-term engagement with government agencies might be necessary for promoting institutional transformations and policy outcomes, and building network resilience in complex polycentric governance systems.
英文关键词	actors collaboration land degradation learning social capital Social Network Analysis transformative spaces
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000554820100001
WOS关键词	SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS ; LAND DEGRADATION ; ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE ; POLYCENTRIC GOVERNANCE ; MANAGEMENT ; SUSTAINABILITY ; DESERTIFICATION ; COLLABORATION ; LIVELIHOODS ; RESOURCES
WOS类目	Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
来源机构	Arizona State University
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/325349
作者单位	[Falayi, Menelisi; Gambiza, James] Rhodes Univ, Dept Environm Sci, ZA-6140 Makhanda, South Africa; [Schoon, Michael] Arizona State Univ, Sch Sustainabil, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Falayi, Menelisi,Gambiza, James,Schoon, Michael. Unpacking Changing Multi-Actor and Multi-Level Actor Ties in Transformative Spaces: Insights from a Degraded Landscape, Machubeni, South Africa[J]. Arizona State University,2020,9(7).
APA	Falayi, Menelisi,Gambiza, James,&Schoon, Michael.(2020).Unpacking Changing Multi-Actor and Multi-Level Actor Ties in Transformative Spaces: Insights from a Degraded Landscape, Machubeni, South Africa.LAND,9(7).
MLA	Falayi, Menelisi,et al."Unpacking Changing Multi-Actor and Multi-Level Actor Ties in Transformative Spaces: Insights from a Degraded Landscape, Machubeni, South Africa".LAND 9.7(2020).