Moving from sustainable management to sustainable governance of natural resources: The role of social learning processes in rural India, Bolivia and Mali

A framework to implement Stakeholder participation in environmental projects

“…Public participation around the world has been part of a wide range of environmental applications including integrated watershed management (Sabatier et al, 2005;ISPWDK, 2005;Kenney et al, 2000), agricultural development (Wilson, 2004;Chambers, 1994), ecosystem management (Knight et al, 2006), environmental governance (Rist et al, 2007), forest management (Buttoud and Yunusova, 2002;Carter and Gronow, 2005) and planning (Buchy and Hoverman, 2000;Buchecker et al, 2003). This is also reflected in a range of international agreements including the Earth Summit, the European Landscape Convention, the Aarhus Convention and the European Water Framework Directive.…”

Constitutionality: Conditions for Crafting Local Ownership of Institution-Building Processes

“…The approach was inspired by many years of work on the dismantling of well-working institutions for the management of common pool resources by the authors and others (see Rist et al 2006;Acciaioli 2008a;2008b;Geiser and Rist 2009;Haller 2010;, uncovering the top-down nature of many participatory projects in natural resource management and protected areas (see Rist et al 2007;Galvin and Haller 2008;Acciaioli 2009). In this article we seek to move beyond the analysis of such failures in cases that depend upon participation in schemes introduced from outside (e.g., Barron, Diprose, and Woolcock 2011) and subjectivity imposed from above (e.g., Agrawal 2005) to a focus upon local agency and creativity in the construction of novel institutions to deal with environmental issues.…”

Restoration in Integrated River Basin Management

“…To make such nonprofessional perspectives available, stakeholder participation in river governance is recognized universally (Renner et al 2013) as an integral component of river restoration practices, especially in design, funding, and authorization of such projects (Bennett et al 2011). The need for more flexible, adaptive, and integrative approaches to water management (e.g., Gleick 2003;Pahl-Wostl 2007;Milly et al 2008;Viviroli et al 2011) has driven experiments in making governance more adaptive through reflective, participatory, and deliberative dialogue (Pahl-Wostl 2002;Rist et al 2007;Wiek and Larson 2012). These processes and the lessons gained from these experiments are more thoroughly covered in Chap.…”