Co-Management in the Swedish Mountain Region?

..................................................................................................... v Acknowledgments .....................................................................................vii Abbreviations ............................................................................................ ix Why co-manage protected areas?............................................................... 1 Purpose of the study ................................................................................. 4 Protected areas – a common-pool resource (?)............................................. 5 Organization of the thesis .......................................................................... 7 Tragedy or comedy – always drama ........................................................... 9 Panaceas for nature conservation ............................................................... 9 Co-management to bridge and pool ...........................................................12 Understudied issues .................................................................................17 Analytical approach and research design.................................................. 21 The Institutional Analysis and Development Framework ...............................21 Quantitative survey analysis .....................................................................24 Comparative case studies .........................................................................25 Co-management efforts in Sweden........................................................... 29 The history of Swedish nature conservation policy .......................................29 Is nature conservation at a crossroads?......................................................33 Today’s institutional framework .................................................................35 Overview of appended papers ...................................................................37 Dynamics of management institutions...................................................... 44 Co-management process principles ............................................................45 Institutional change through protected areas ..............................................55 Policy implications ...................................................................................56 References................................................................................................ 59