Institutional navigation for polycentric sustainability governance

Within polycentric governance systems, actors strategically navigate to join, create, resist, or adapt existing institutions, which Lubell and Morrison call institutional navigation.

“Within polycentric governance systems, actors strategically navigate to join, create, resist, or adapt existing institutions, what Lubell and Morrison (2021) call institutional navigation.”

International conservation focuses on settler states' priorities and scientific knowledge, often leading to Indigenous communities' fatigue, especially associated with continuous demands for research and advocacy.

“The case illustrates how international conservation focuses on settler states' priorities and scientific knowledge often leading to Indigenous communities' fatigue, especially associated with continuous demands for research and advocacy (see Lubell and Morrison, 2021).”

Observed power asymmetries and cross-level local to international conflicts threatened subsistence rights and generated research and advocacy fatigue for Chukchi, Iñupiat, Saint Lawrence Island Yupik, and Siberian Yupik communities in the USA and Russia.

“However, observed power asymmetries and cross-level local to international conflicts threatened subsistence rights and generated research and advocacy fatigue for Chukchi, Iñupiat, Saint Lawrence Island Yupik, and Siberian Yupik communities in the USA and Russia.”

North Slope Borough leaders, historically whaling captains or their partners themselves, were able to leverage their position and networks, staff a wildlife department, and provide resources to support the AEWC.

“North Slope Borough leaders, historically whaling captains or their partners themselves, were able to leverage their position and networks, staff a wildlife department, and provide resources to support the AEWCsocial capital (and simply resources) were critical (see similar discussion in Lubell and Morrison, 2021).”