%0 Journal Article
%T From coastal timber supply area to Great Bear Rainforest: exploring power in a social每ecological governance innovation.
%A Michele-Lee Moore
%A Ola Tjornbo
%J Ecology and Society
%D 2012
%I The Resilience Alliance
%R 10.5751/es-05194-170426
%X As the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment revealed, many social每ecological systems around the world are currently being governed unsustainably. Consequently, social innovation is needed to transform current governance regimes and introduce new more resilient arrangements. Although dominant institutions and social groups may resist such innovations which threaten the status quo and their interests, groups on the margins of the established social order can often trigger governance transformations, despite a lack of conventional financial and institutional resources. In particular, there are numerous cases of marginalized groups initiating processes of radical change to establish sustainable governance practices for threatened social每ecological systems. We investigate one such case, and introduce a typology of power developed by Barnett and Duvall (2005) to illuminate the role that nongovernmental organizations and indigenous nations played in the transformation of a social每ecological governance regime for an area known as the Great Bear Rainforest, located in British Columbia, Canada. The analysis shows the interplay of compulsory, structural, institutional, and productive forms of power as the four key interest groups in this case enacted the governance transformation. The conclusions draw lessons about how the use and distribution of certain types of power can shape the course and outcomes of social每ecological governance transformations.
%K governance transformation
%K Great Bear Rainforest
%K power
%K social innovation
%U http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol17/iss4/art26/