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Beyond Knowledge and Information: Making Sense of Local Management
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Arora-Jonsson, Seema |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Rights and control over natural resources pose an increasingly serious problem all around the world and have given rise to public debates on biodiversity, environmental sustainability, and democracy in relation to local development and the management of resources. Accompanying !hese trends bas been a shift in national and intetnational policies. Policies have evolved in the context of a growing consensus among international aid agendes and among some governments, both in tbe global North and the global South, This confluence of forcesin previous decades contributed to bringing political decentralization and the participation of local people in development action and the management of environmental resources onto the mainstrearn environmental agenda. More recently, this rhetoric has shifted to the need to include new actors in environmental management, especially private interests. Local management or participation for the sustainable development of rural areas and forests, what Sheona Shakleton, Bruce Campbell, Eva Wallenberg, and David Edmunds (2002) called a paradigm shift in questions of resource management, has been added to by calls for partnerships between civil, public, and private actors. The shift from the language of state controHed resource management to that of local management, partnerships, and collaboration has ils counterpart in the field of environmental sciences. Schalars have stressed the need to integrate knowledge from many disciplines. 1 Knowledge of people outside academic communities is considered imperative. It is clear that environmental problems cannot be handled within a narrow sector approach. The need for knowledge and tbe free flow of information has been advocated as important to be able to meet the challenges of sustainable |
| Starting Page | 808 |
| Ending Page | 814 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.4135/9781452218601.n84 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/10593/6/arorajonsson_s_140317.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.4135/9781452218601.n84 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
