Year: 2026 | Month: October | Volume: 13 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 72-87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20261007
Collaborative Forest Governance for Hydrological Resilience: Integrating Social Capital, Power, Adaptive Institutions, and Community Based Stewardship in Social Ecological Landscapes
Bambang Trihandoko1, Hasim2, Mahludin H. Baruwadi3, Weny J.A. Musa4
1Doctoral Program in Environmental Science, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Gorontalo, Indonesia
2,3,4Postgraduate Program, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Gorontalo, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Bambang Trihandoko
ABSTRACT
Collaborative forest governance is increasingly expected to deliver legitimate participation, livelihood benefits, and measurable ecological resilience under accelerating climate and hydrological risk. This integrative review synthesizes a closed corpus of 54 Scopus-indexed records published between 2016 and 2026 to examine how collaborative governance, social capital, community forestry, adaptive management, and hydrological evidence can be integrated. The literature shows that collaboration performs best when social networks, facilitative leadership, shared learning, equitable representation, and cross-scale coordination operate as interacting institutional capacities. Recent evidence also raises the outcome standard: deforestation has been associated with sharply higher flood occurrence in vulnerable mountain systems, while adaptive water governance emphasizes co-learning, traditional knowledge, participatory action research, and institutional flexibility. Yet governance studies often measure trust, participation, livelihoods, or institutional performance without simultaneously assessing forest condition, watershed function, or disaster risk, whereas hydrological studies commonly omit power, benefit distribution, and implementation capacity. The review therefore proposes a Collaborative Hydrosocial Forest Governance Framework linking ecological-hydrological integrity, collaborative capacity, social capital architecture, political equity, livelihood security, and adaptive cross-scale coordination. The framework treats collaboration as a capacity whose value must be verified through socially equitable improvements in ecosystem function and risk reduction.
Keywords: collaborative forest governance; hydrological resilience; social capital; adaptive governance; community forestry; flood risk; social ecological systems
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