Enabling Systems Change
Transforming systems that inhibit collaborative stewardship.
Systems tHINKING & Systems CHANGE
Solving shared challenges—and taking advantage of mutually beneficial opportunities—is at the root of why the Network first came to be.
While systems shape nearly every aspect of our lives and our work, the Network has been focused on those that most affect land stewardship at scale rethinking how they operate and considering how to improve them. In some cases, there may be a way to engage differently with existing systems. However, often some change is needed to enable us to work at the pace and scale of our social and ecological challenges.
The recent Systems Thinking and Change: A Guide for Landscape Stewardship Practitioners describes how landscape stewardship practitioners can more intentionally and clearly apply this lens to their work.
cAPACITY bUILDING FOR cOLLABORATION
Visit the Collaborative Capacity page
Regulatory efficiencies
Created to protect the state’s natural resources, California’s existing environmental permitting and compliance systems have a huge impact on our ability to care for our lands and waters. The Regulatory Efficiencies Working Group has been looking at how to improve these systems so that they better support ecologically beneficial work while maintaining important protections.
This work led to a collaboration with the California Natural Resources Agency to facilitate statewide conversations through the Cutting Green Tape initiative. In 2020, Cutting Green Tape published its report of 14 key recommendations to help enable good restoration and stewardship projects to happen more efficiently and cost effectively.
Visit the Regularoty Efficiencies page
Policy & Funding
Existing funding and legislative systems are not always structured to support and sustain the unique kind of work we do. The Policy & Funding Working Group has taken on communications and policy analyses related to more general capacity building as well as specific policies. We are also actively exploring how we can adapt funding mechanisms to further support regional stewardship approaches.
