Community Participation and Recognition Justice in Border Environmental Governance

Prado, Carolina

doi:10.1080/08865655.2020.1774407

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“…In this way, recognition is purported to lead to "fair participation and legitimate distributions of power" in environmental governance (Paavola, 2006: 101). The effectiveness of recognition is also said to rest on the level of access of affected parties to the governance process (Prado, 2020). Yet the benefits attributed to recognition tend to be differentiated according to forms of difference that are recognized-be it a unique tribal identity, a customary claim, or an uneven environmental harm.…”

Section: Rightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…States exercise their rights to extract natural resources even when in direct conflict with Indigenous, local, or other claims to land through the legal principle of eminent domain (Preeti, 2013)—or the right of governments to appropriate property for what they deem public use or public benefit, following some form of compensation determined by the state. In relation to Indigenous or local claims to land, eminent domain is a mechanism wherein settler colonial or neocolonial states evict, displace, and dispossess local or Indigenous peoples when their claims to land and resources are in direct conflict with the economic interests of the state (Procter, 2020; Spiegel 2016).…”

Section: Environmental Governance Arena: Extractivismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Participation has spread throughout the world across a wide array of environmental governance arenas. From decentralization and local government planning (Ribot, 2002) to participatory approaches in conservation and development, participation is now seen as a deliberative and inclusionary process in environmental policymaking (Holmes and Scoones, 2000;Prado, 2020). Participation may take the form of "prior consultation" or "free, prior and informed consent" in the final stages of approval of production and extractive activities or large-scale land acquisitions to govern the impacts and distribution of benefits of these activities in customary and Indigenous territories (FAO, 2014; The Interlaken Group and the Rights and Resources Initiative, 2019).…”

Section: Rightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation

Arney

Henderson

DeLoach

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Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This paper explores the significance of current paradigms for connecting across difference in environmental governance, with a focus on dominant practices and the erasures that occur in the process. It focuses on three core concepts and corresponding practices: rights (adhering to both persons and property, procedural, and substantive); recognition (of harms done, of those harmed, or of those deserving of special recognition); and participation (in which information, decision authority, and/or benefits are shared with affected populations). The paper begins with a literature review on the history and purported benefits of each of these concepts, the environmental arenas where they occur, and the critiques that are leveraged against them. To envision what it might look like to connect across difference differently, we situate these critiques in the literature on coloniality and use this to develop a conceptual framework for evaluating efforts to connect across difference in environmental governance. We then illustrate the application of this framework in the environmental arenas of biodiversity conservation and extractivism to crystalize through lived experiences what it means to operate inside of these paradigms and to move beyond them. The paper highlights how current paradigms for connecting across difference are deeply situated in (settler) colonial logics of hierarchies of value, state sovereignty, and Indigenous erasure. We conclude with a vision of how environmental governance can move beyond its current colonial hegemony by centering decolonial and abolition ecologies scholarship that decenters settler ontologies in favor of more radical alternatives for relating with the so-called “natural” world.

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Section: Rightsmentioning

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Section: Environmental Governance Arena: Extractivismmentioning

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Section: Rightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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DeLoach

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Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…These borders experience environmental injustice, both between neighboring countries and within each country that are distinct from non-border regions [9]. This border environmental justice includes distributive inequality, or unequal distribution of environmental ills and goods [10], procedural inequality, or lack of participation of marginalized communities in environmental decision-making [11], and recognition injustice, or the exclusion of certain residents from the role of stakeholder [12]. Environmental justice in the border region is shaped by the social, economic, and environmental cohesion across the boundary, the core-periphery relationship between the two countries and the region's fragmented environmental governance [9].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Border Environmental Justice PPGIS: Community-Based Mapping and Public Participation in Eastern Tijuana, México

Prado

Ambiental²,

Comunidades³

2021

IJERPH

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Community mapping projects have been studied as important contributions to the field of environmental justice and Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS). As a collaborative project between the Colectivo Salud y Justicia Ambiental and Red de Ciudadanos por el Mejoramiento de las Comunidades (RECIMEC), the “Mapeo Comunitario de la Zona Alamar” was created as a mechanism for community participation in the urban planning process in Tijuana, México. This paper outlines the project’s community mapping process, including planning, data collection, priority identification, and data submission. Results from this community mapping project are analyzed including the (1) particular environmental risks and goods in this border region, (2) the influence that the project data had on the urban planning process, and (3) the impact that the community mapping process had on community organizing capacity. Our findings point to particular environmental challenges in this border city including clandestine trash dumps, and contaminated water runoff points. The mapping project influenced the land use planning process by identifying the key environmental risks and goods to prioritize in the zoning and ground truthing urban planning data. The community mapping project also had a key impact on community organizing through the fomenting of knowledge and relationships between community members and government representatives at the city’s urban planning agency.

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The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework

Fischhendler

2024

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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Community Participation and Recognition Justice in Border Environmental Governance

Cited by 6 publications

References 56 publications

Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation

Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition, and participation

Border Environmental Justice PPGIS: Community-Based Mapping and Public Participation in Eastern Tijuana, México

The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework

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