A New Vanguard for the Environment: Grass-Roots Ecosystem Management as a New Environmental Movement

Weber, Edward P.

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“…The challenge for local leaders is to channel or constrain behaviors while keeping communication open [11]. The beliefs, attitudes and knowledge that different sectors of residents bring to public conversations about non-point source pollution and water quality is particularly relevant to developing solutions.…”

Section: Watershed and Place-based Environmental Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Water management and other environmental planning programs have been designed and developed to encourage involvement of local affected stakeholders and residents in the agenda-setting, decision-making, monitoring, and enforcement activities [11]. Participation of ordinary citizens and their subjective knowledge about the environment can often help in complex decisions about social and environmental problems [29].…”

Section: Local Knowledge About Watermentioning

confidence: 99%

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U.S. Midwestern Residents Perceptions of Water Quality

Morton

2011

Water

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Abstract:The plurality of conservation and environmental viewpoints often challenge community leaders and government agency staff as they seek to engage citizens and build partnerships around watershed planning and management to solve complex water quality issues. The U.S. Midwest Heartland region (covering the states of Missouri, Kansa, Iowa, and Nebraska) is dominated by row crop production and animal agriculture, where an understanding of perceptions held by residents of different locations (urban, rural non-farm, and rural farm) towards water quality and the environment can provide a foundation for public deliberation and decision making. A stratified random sample mail survey of 1,042 Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska residents (54% response rate) reveals many areas of agreement among farm, rural non-farm, and those who live in towns on the importance of water issues including the importance and use of water resources; beliefs about water quality and perceptions of impaired water quality causality; beliefs about protecting local waters; and environmental attitudes. With two ordinal logistic models, we also found that respondents with strong environmental attitudes have the least confidence in ground and surface water quality. The findings about differences and areas of agreement among the residents of different sectors can provide a communication bridge among divergent viewpoints and assist local leaders and agency staff as they seek to engage the public in discussions which lead to negotiating solutions to difficult water issues.

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Section: Watershed and Place-based Environmental Managementmentioning

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Section: Local Knowledge About Watermentioning

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U.S. Midwestern Residents Perceptions of Water Quality

Morton

2011

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“…Community forestry is often portrayed as a radically new approach to conservation in the United States (for example, Weber, 2000;, but in fact it has many domestic ancestors. Recognizably similar debates over the relationships between communities and forests in the United States have been going on for at least two centuries, as environmental historians continue to document from new perspectives (for example, Jacoby, 2001;Judd, 1997).…”

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Devolution in the Woods: Community Forestry as Hybrid Neoliberalism

2005

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This paper explores the remarkable congruence between the proliferation of community forestry initiatives in North America in recent years and the ascendance of particular forms of neoliberalism. In it I argue that, in the United States in particular, such initiatives are best understood as hybrids between ‘rollout’ neoliberalism and contemporaneous trends in the management of protected areas and state-owned forests. This interpretation contributes to recent arguments that the environment has been understudied as an arena through which neoliberalism has been actively constituted, rather than simply a passive recipient of ‘impacts’. Moreover, surprisingly little academic work has explored the imbrications of specific changes in environmental governance and evolving neoliberalism in the latter's ‘First World’ geographic hearths, such as the USA and the United Kingdom. In this paper I undertake such an investigation with respect to community forestry in the United States. The paper traces the major antecedents, introduction, and institutionalizations of community forestry in the United States, and shows how their conceptualizations and enactments of ‘community’ are structured by hegemonic neoliberal ideas, making community forestry in this context supplementary, rather than oppositional, to neoliberal restructurings. Exploration of the current Bush administration's enthusiastic adoption of central elements of community forestry bolsters this interpretation. Finally, the conclusion draws implications from this case for debates in political ecology.

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“…While urban planners and policy-makers have long addressed environmental issues, the constellation of groups associated with the governance of urban ecological processes has shifted in recent decades from hierarchical to polycentric structures [82][83][84][85][86]. In many cities, urban environmental stewardship groups have become an essential component of governance that regulates ecosystem services [87].…”

Section: A Model For Transforming the Urban Design-ecology Nexusmentioning

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An Ecology for Cities: A Transformational Nexus of Design and Ecology to Advance Climate Change Resilience and Urban Sustainability

et al. 2015

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Cities around the world are facing an ever-increasing variety of challenges that seem to make more sustainable urban futures elusive. Many of these challenges are being driven by, and exacerbated by, increases in urban populations and climate change. Novel solutions are needed today if our cities are to have any hope of more sustainable and resilient futures. Because most of the environmental impacts of any project are manifest at the point of design, we posit that this is where a real difference in urban development can be made. To this end, we present a transformative model that merges urban design and ecology into an inclusive, creative, knowledge-to-action process. This design-ecology nexus-an ecology for cities-will redefine both the process and its products. In this paper we: (1) summarize the relationships among design, infrastructure, and urban development, emphasizing the importance of joining the three to achieve urban climate resilience and enhance sustainability; (2) discuss how urban ecology can move from an ecology of cities OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 3775 to an ecology for cities based on a knowledge-to-action agenda; (3) detail our model for a transformational urban design-ecology nexus, and; (4) demonstrate the efficacy of our model with several case studies.

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A New Vanguard for the Environment: Grass-Roots Ecosystem Management as a New Environmental Movement

Cited by 150 publications

References 2 publications

U.S. Midwestern Residents Perceptions of Water Quality

U.S. Midwestern Residents Perceptions of Water Quality

Devolution in the Woods: Community Forestry as Hybrid Neoliberalism

An Ecology for Cities: A Transformational Nexus of Design and Ecology to Advance Climate Change Resilience and Urban Sustainability

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