Poverty reduction as a local institutional process

Bastiaensen, Johan; Herdt, Tom De; D’Exelle, Ben

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.09.019

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“…Thus, a significant amount of outreach efforts is required to reach out to the segments of society for whom the project can have the most life-affecting outcomes. Furthermore, in a context of sustainable development, almost by definition (Bastiaensen et al, 2005), the poorer people will have difficulty to voice their concerns and even more to articulate them to (scientific) outsiders. So more often than otherwise, we therefore expect that participative citizen science will address more mainstream concerns of the local majority, or even of small dominant local elites.…”

Section: Improving Citizen Access To Decision Makingmentioning

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Citizen science in hydrology and water resources: opportunities for knowledge generation, ecosystem service management, and sustainable development

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The participation of the general public in the research design, data collection and interpretation process together with scientists is often referred to as citizen science. While citizen science itself has existed since the start of scientific practice, developments in sensing technology, data processing and visualization, and communication of ideas and results, are creating a wide range of new opportunities for public participation in scientific research. This paper reviews the state of citizen science in a hydrological context and explores the potential of citizen science to complement more traditional ways of scientific data collection and knowledge generation for hydrological sciences and water resources management. Although hydrological data collection often involves advanced technology, the advent of robust, cheap, and low-maintenance sensing equipment provides unprecedented opportunities for data collection in a citizen science context. These data have a significant potential to create new hydrological knowledge, especially in relation to the characterization of process heterogeneity, remote regions, and human impacts on the water cycle. However, the nature and quality of data collected in citizen science experiments is potentially very different from those of traditional monitoring networks. This poses challenges in terms of their processing, interpretation, and use, especially with regard to assimilation of traditional knowledge, the quantification of uncertainties, and their role in decision support. It also requires care in designing citizen science projects such that the generated data complement optimally other available knowledge. Lastly, using 4 case studies from remote mountain regions we reflect on the challenges and opportunities in the integration of hydrologically-oriented citizen science in water resources management, the role of scientific knowledge in the decision-making process, and the potential contestation to established community institutions posed by co-generation of new knowledge.

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Section: Improving Citizen Access To Decision Makingmentioning

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Citizen science in hydrology and water resources: opportunities for knowledge generation, ecosystem service management, and sustainable development

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“…There is a substantial bulk of literature on the theoretical relationship between poverty and institutions (Rodrik, 2000;Chong & Calderon, 2000;Sindzingre, 2005;Bastiaensen et al, 2005;Tebaldi & Mohan, 2008). Conversely, very few empirical studies have examined the link (Chong & Calderon, 2000;Hasan et al, 2007).…”

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Institutions and Poverty: A Critical Comment Based on Evolving Currents and Debates

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Kodila‐Tedika

2014

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“…It is not a characteristic of a certain group of people; it rather characterises of a particular situation in which people may find themselves at a given point in time (Green and Hulme, 2005;Bastiaensen;De Herdt and D'exelle 2005). Understanding extreme poverty through $1.25 PPP a day seem quite unhelpful.…”

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A Critical Note on Poverty Eradication Target of Sustainable Development Goals

Kamruzzaman

2016

EJSD

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim big -as one of its target is to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 for all people everywhere. This paper offers a critical review and outlines some potential challenges in achieving this noble target. In doing so, it offers a critical review of poverty scholarship to assess the notion of extreme poverty adopted in the SDGs. This also takes stock of past global anti-poverty programmes to set an appropriate context for forecasting potential challenges to eradicate poverty everywhere. It is highlighted that i) a number of poor countries will have to perform a magic against their track records, ii) the world needs to be consistently peaceful, iii) significant and equitable reform should take place within world economic structure, iv) quality and international comparability of poverty data in poor countries need to be improved significantly, and v) uncertainty about required investment in poor countries should be addressed rigorously in order for achieving poverty eradication target of the SDGs. These lead to the argument that without strong political commitments by all related stakeholders and an approach to look beyond existing models poverty eradication target may turn out to be another statement of good intentions by the international aid architecture with little meaningful practical relevance.

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Poverty reduction as a local institutional process

Cited by 71 publications

References 14 publications

Citizen science in hydrology and water resources: opportunities for knowledge generation, ecosystem service management, and sustainable development

Citizen science in hydrology and water resources: opportunities for knowledge generation, ecosystem service management, and sustainable development

Institutions and Poverty: A Critical Comment Based on Evolving Currents and Debates

A Critical Note on Poverty Eradication Target of Sustainable Development Goals

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