| Relationships | Nature of the risk |
| Relationship between resources users | |
| Could some resource users deplete the resource and are they reliant on the resource, thus making it difficult to change patterns of use? | Resource depletion |
| Are there current conflicts between and/or within the different user groups? | Inability to manage excessive resource utilization |
| Is the resource and its available services located within a clearly defined spatial boundary that can exclude users without legal rights? | Cannot enforce the right of exclusive use by owners |
| Are the people with rights to resource use a clearly defined group separate to those without rights of resource use? | Cannot enforce the right of exclusive use by owners |
| Does everybody in the community with user rights participate in the resource use? | Unequal incentives for community to manage the resource |
| Are there good relationships between all the users who have a right of use? | Prohibitive transaction costs in establishing resource management |
| The infrastructure, economic, social, and institutional assets available | |
| To what extent is the built infrastructure developed and maintained? | Poor quality infrastructure can limit access |
| Considering current infrastructure, is user safety secure all year round? | Threat to personal security |
| Does the built infrastructure meet current demand for access (the type, size, and quality of infrastructure)? | Unsatisfactory access to the site |
| What are the levels of skills (education, knowledge, communication, hospitality) among the resource users? | Inadequate skills to anticipate and resolve problems |
| What are the levels of skills (education, knowledge, communication, hospitality) among the resource managers/government? | Inadequate skills to anticipate and resolve problems |
| How adaptable are the resource users to (i) changes in the availability of the resource; (ii) changes in demand; (iii) pursuing other activities to sustain livelihoods, etc.? | Poor adaptability to change |
| What rules of law (local, provincial, national, international) are applicable to the resource users? | Partial application of laws |
| To what extent are these rules of law enforced? | Uncertainty for investors and users regarding their investments |
| To what degree are cellular, telephone, email, and fax facilities available to the resource users; and to what degree are these facilities necessary? | Poor communications - no access to market |
| Resources for management | |
| To what degree is government contributing to the management of resource users with regard to: (i) the resource; (ii) research; (iii) infrastructure; (iv) skills/knowledge; (v) security; (vi) communication? | Public services not being supplied to management - with risks to resource depletion |
| Impact of infrastructure on resource levels | |
| What are the impacts of (i) knowledge/skills; (ii) infrastructure; (iii) security/governance; and (vi) communication on the resource? | Depleted resources |
| Policy implications | |
| What policies are applicable to the resource users and what implications do these policies have on the resource users? | Lack of investors |
| To what extent do these policies give (i) adequate protection to the resource; (ii) give adequate security, i.e., access, availability, of the resource to the resource users? | Diminished access to resources |
| Integrated implementation of developments | |
| Are there conflicts between government actions and/or government infrastructure? | Reduced or limited access to enterprise inputs |
| Monitoring the state of the asset | |
| To what extent is the state of the resource monitored and who is responsible for this monitoring? | Inadequate knowledge for effective resource management |
| Is there evidence of monitoring, and if so to what extent, are the findings of any monitoring efforts used to evaluate management, and thus influence future actions (adaptive management)? | Management is not responsive to changes |
| Comanagement of built or natural assets | |
| How adequate is the cooperation between the resource users and government to manage the (i) built environment; (ii) social/cultural environment; (iii) natural environment? | Poor operating environment for enterprise - heightened uncertainty for entrepreneurs |
| Can upstream resource users, who may influence the ecosystem functioning, and therefore the supply levels of services, be excluded or influenced? | Asset can be run-down - with diminish services availability |
| Capacity and competency to implement policy | |
| What policies are applicable to public and private infrastructure and to what degree are these policies implemented? | No support for enterprises from government |
| Intergovernment communication | |
| Is there sufficient communication between different government tiers and departments? | High costs to do business |
| Droughts, floods, changes in supply of resource services | |
| What is the nature of severe biophysical impacts on the resource and what is the significance and frequency of these impacts? | Inability to supply services demanded |
| Disregard for resource fluctuations | |
| To what degree do resource users plan for fluctuations, and is this planning adequate? | Insufficient revenue to cover costs |
| Droughts, floods, wash-aways, destroyed communications | |
| To what degree do external shocks damage public infrastructure with regards to: knowledge, skills, aids, natural disasters, over exploitation of resource, establishment or nonmaintenance of infrastructure, communication? | Prevention of clients accessing the enterprise site or threats to user safety |
| To what degree are these external shocks managed/prepared for, i.e., insurance, forward planning? | Insufficient revenue to cover costs |
| Poverty and affluence - over use and exclusion | |
| To what extent does poverty and/or affluence influence/affect overuse and exclusion of the resource? | Asset can be run-down, diminish services |
| Can one user group’s actions reduce the levels of services available to a different user group? | Asset can be run-down, diminish services |
| Do high transaction costs exclude key stakeholders from the decision making process? | Unequal incentives to manage the resource |
| Conflict, crime, uncertainty, changes in demand | |
| Are there social and economic forces, such as conflict, crime (internal and external), and interest rates which can limit the demand by the resource users? | Reduced numbers of clients |
| Have the rules of resource use and benefit sharing been understood and agreed to by all people who have rights of use before use commences? | Effort can be unrewarded - abandonment of enterprise |
| Increased use pressures | |
| Are there external social and economic forces, e.g., water provision, housing, creating pressure on available infrastructure that impacts on natural resource-based enterprises? | Asset can be run-down, diminish services |
| Effectiveness of governance | |
| Does government have capacity/skills to cope with social and economic shocks to resource linked assets (resource, access, infrastructure)? | Prevention of clients accessing the enterprise or threat to personal safety or security |
| Are the rules of access and management duties well understood by all resource users? | Asset can be run-down, diminish services |