Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases

A comparative analysis of eight landscape-level multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) spanning seven countries, representing a diversity of resource systems.

This research, published in Ecology and Society, provides a comparative analysis of eight landscape-level MSPs spanning seven countries, representing a diversity of resource systems. The authors – Blake D. Ratner, Anne M. Larson, Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti, Hagar ElDidi, Delia Catacutan, Fiona Flintan, Diana Suhardiman, Thomas Falk and Ruth Meinzen-Dick – identify the influence of these MSPs on patterns of stakeholder interaction and suggests ways for the appropriate and effective, design and organization of MSPs.

We apply an adapted institutional analysis and development framework that was developed with the expectation that it could be applied to assess diverse MSPs to substantiate and validate lessons for practice.

– Blake D. Ratner, Anne M. Larson, Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti, Hagar ElDidi, Delia Catacutan, Fiona Flintan, Diana Suhardiman, Thomas Falk and Ruth Meinzen-Dick