A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Lake Governance: Lake’s People, Development, Conservation, and Government

• Main Author: Brillo, Bing Baltazar C.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: Concept; Conservation; Development; Framework; Government; Governance; Lake; Lake Governance
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol23/iss4/6; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1517/viewcontent/RA_205.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Governance’s concept is well-established, multifarious, and too considerable in meanings, indicators, and frameworks, making it distinct to different people and unappealing to apply in lakes. Under this, governance ought to be reductionist-parsimony to be manageable and straightforward in refocusing the primary reference—lake governance. Lake governance’s concept is rarely utilized in scholarly literature nor acknowledged in the lake’s discourse. To ameliorate, the article intends to be a discourse—elucidate, understand, and contribute to lake governance’s analytical framework, respectively, the constituent’s interrelationship among the lake’s people, development, conservation, and the government, its most influential compartment. With this, lake governance asserts (a) development and conservation are associated but often discord and stand-alone; (b) lake’s people are contingent but commensurate with many or few communities; (c) lake’s people are affected by context-specific situations and multiple-various interests, making decisions problematic; (d) the government requires to penetrate and ultimately decide on the lake; and (e) the government is of utmost function as the universal principle in a lake. On the whole, the precept is that the administrative and managerial government presides over and perpetuates to enhance economic development by the people and to protect ecological conservation in the lake.