Governments seeking to implement state/territory-wide or national agendas and policies can impose (un)intended impacts and consequences on self-managed community-led collaborative governance initiatives by which people attempt to solve place-based environmental and resource problems. The impacts of government actions and changes to policy, funding targets and criteria, and local government reform on emergent place-based and self-managed community collaborative governance initiatives can be significant in relation to longevity and ongoing achievement of beneficial environmental outcomes. Such outcomes are irrespective of whether place-based initiatives are considered to emerge in the shadow of government or independent of central government. This article establishes that place-based self-managed community-led collaborative governance initiatives are not immune to the influences and consequences of state/territorial and/or federal government decisions and actions, be those through the development of environmental regulations and policies that direct actions and/or set targets for policy outcomes; the provision of funding to be administered according to set criteria; or, at state/territory government levels, forced local government amalgamations. Discussion about these issues is positioned in relation to a successful place-based community-led collaborative water governance initiative known as the Clarence Floodplain Project (CFP) in northern New South Wales, Australia. The experience of the CFP suggests that state/territory and/or federal government decisions and actions may result in (un)intended negative as well as positive impacts on place-based community-led collaborative governance initiatives. Although the CFP was impacted by government actions, its success also highlights the importance of place-based approaches to natural resource management and governance.

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地方协同治理：政府的潜在影响

寻求实施州/领地或国家议程和政策的政府可能会对人们试图解决基于地方的环境和资源问题的自我管理的社区主导的协作治理举措施加（非）预期的影响和后果。政府行为和政策、资金目标和标准的变化以及地方政府改革对新兴的以地方为基础和自我管理的社区协作治理举措的影响对于长期和持续实现有益的环境成果可能具有重大意义。这种结果与基于地方的举措是在政府的阴影下出现还是独立于中央政府无关。本文确立了以地方为基础的自我管理的社区主导的协作治理举措不能免受州/领地和/或联邦政府决策和行动的影响和后果，这些决定和行动是通过制定环境法规和政策来指导行动的和/或为政策结果设定目标；根据既定标准提供资金；或者，在州/领地政府层面，强制地方政府合并。对这些问题的讨论与澳大利亚新南威尔士州北部的克拉伦斯洪泛区项目 (CFP) 一项成功的以地方为基础的社区主导的协作水治理计划有关。CFP 的经验表明，州/领地和/或联邦政府的决定和行动可能会对以地方为基础的社区主导的协作治理举措产生（非）有意的负面和正面影响。尽管 CFP 受到政府行为的影响，但它的成功也凸显了以地方为基础的自然资源管理和治理方法的重要性。