Good governance is needed to foster good management of the environment. Yet, the link between environmental governance and environmental management has received very little research attention. This paper adopts a mechanism-based framework to unpack the link between the governance and management of species at risk or endangered species in a working landscape. Using species at risk management in the South of the Divide region of southwestern Saskatchewan as a case study, we identified four governance conditions connected by five mechanisms to produce management outcomes. The governance conditions include facilitative leadership, local autonomy, trust, and incentives. The five mechanisms include institutional disruption, institutional crafting and drift, brokerage or bridging, program uptake, and alleviation of fear of harm. We discuss how using a mechanism-based approach could help us better understand the processes within the governance system that trigger particular management outcomes. For example, in this case study, dissatisfied factors disrupt the existing governance arrangements and create new ones that reflect their desire for local autonomy. Local autonomy, in turn, creates an atmosphere for local actors to form coalitions and build trust; trust enhances program uptake and the co-design and co-implementation of incentives, which then alleviates land managers' fear of harm from participating in species at risk management. Our study also suggests that top-down institutions that create room for further institutional work can become acceptable at the local level and enhance endangered species management. We conclude that a mechanism-based explanation can be useful for opening the black box connecting environmental governance and management and offering valuable recommendations to guide policy.

需要良好的治理来促进良好的环境管理。然而，环境治理和环境管理之间的联系很少受到研究关注。本文采用基于机制的框架来阐明工作景观中面临风险或濒危物种的治理和管理之间的联系。以萨斯喀彻温省西南部分水岭南部地区面临风险管理的物种作为案例研究，我们确定了通过五种机制联系起来的四种治理条件，以产生管理成果。治理条件包括促进性领导、地方自治、信任和激励。这五种机制包括制度破坏、制度设计和漂移、经纪或桥接、计划采用以及减轻对伤害的恐惧。我们讨论如何使用基于机制的方法帮助我们更好地理解治理系统内触发特定管理结果的流程。例如，在本案例研究中，不满因素扰乱了现有的治理安排，并创造了新的治理安排，以反映他们对地方自治的渴望。反过来，地方自治又为地方行为体形成联盟和建立信任创造了氛围；信任增强了计划的采用以及激励措施的共同设计和共同实施，从而减轻了土地管理者对参与濒危物种管理所造成伤害的恐惧。我们的研究还表明，为进一步的机构工作创造空间的自上而下的机构可以在地方层面上被接受，并加强濒危物种管理。我们的结论是，基于机制的解释有助于打开环境治理和管理之间的黑匣子，并为指导政策提供有价值的建议。