摘要：As the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment revealed, many social–ecological systems around the world arecurrently being governed unsustainably. Consequently, social innovation is needed to transform current governance regimesand introduce new more resilient arrangements. Although dominant institutions and social groups may resist such innovationswhich threaten the status quo and their interests, groups on the margins of the established social order can often trigger governancetransformations, despite a lack of conventional financial and institutional resources. In particular, there are numerous cases ofmarginalized groups initiating processes of radical change to establish sustainable governance practices for threatened social–ecological systems. We investigate one such case, and introduce a typology of power developed by Barnett and Duvall (2005)to illuminate the role that nongovernmental organizations and indigenous nations played in the transformation of a social–ecological governance regime for an area known as the Great Bear Rainforest, located in British Columbia, Canada. The analysisshows the interplay of compulsory, structural, institutional, and productive forms of power as the four key interest groups inthis case enacted the governance transformation. The conclusions draw lessons about how the use and distribution of certaintypes of power can shape the course and outcomes of social–ecological governance transformations
关键词：governance transformation; Great Bear Rainforest; power; social innovation
