Power and Participatory Development

Nelson, Nici; Wright, Susan

doi:10.3362/9781780445649

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“…Scope of participation 4 categories were defined, based on two broad criteria, namely inclusivity (Kapoor, 2001;Nelson and Wright, 1995;Poolman and Van De Giesen, 2006;Slocum, 1995) and the nature of information flow (Health Canada, 2000; Kapoor, 2001;OECD, 2004;Pretty, 1995;Rowe and Frewer, 2004). Minimal participation involves stakeholders solely for the purpose of obtaining data that is otherwise unavailable/inaccessible, and/or for testing data or methodologies.…”

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Is research keeping up with changes in landscape policy? A review of the literature

Conrad

Christie

Fazey

2011

Journal of Environmental Management

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a b s t r a c tSeveral innovative directions for landscape policy development and implementation have emerged over recent years. These include: (i) an expansion of scope to include all landscape aspects and landscape types, (ii) an increased emphasis on public participation, (iii) a focus on designing measures appropriate for different contexts and scales, and (iv) encouraging support for capacity-building. In this paper, we evaluate the extent to which these policy directions are reflected in the practice of academic landscape research. We evaluate all research papers published in three leading landscape journals over six years, as well as published research papers relating directly to the European Landscape Convention. The latter, which was adopted in 2000, establishes a framework for landscape protection, planning and management in Europe and is to date the only international legal instrument of its kind. Results indicate that whilst policy innovations do not appear to be a major stimulus for academic research, studies nevertheless address a range of landscape aspects, types and scales (albeit with a slight bias towards bio-physical landscape aspects). However, geographical representativeness of research is weak and dominated by the United States and northern/western Europe, and research capacity likewise appears to be unevenly distributed. Landscape research is also limited in the extent to which it involves stakeholders or develops innovative methods for doing so, notwithstanding that this remains a key challenge for policy-makers. Results point to the potential for landscape research to address areas (topical and geographical) which have received little attention to date, as well as suggesting mutual benefits of stronger links between policy and academia.

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Is research keeping up with changes in landscape policy? A review of the literature

Conrad

Christie

Fazey

2011

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…The challenges for participatory development initiatives, then, can be thought of in these terms, whereby the links between local negotiating capacities and power relations are ®rmly made. This requires an approach to participation which takes the dynamics of power relations between social actors involved in the development process seriously (Nelson and Wright, 1995).…”

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Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management

Leach¹,

Mearns²,

Scoones³

2012

Milestones and Turning Points in Development Thinking

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Summary. Ð While community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) now attracts widespread international attention, its practical implementation frequently falls short of expectations. This paper contributes to emerging critiques by focusing on the implications of intracommunity dynamics and ecological heterogeneity. It builds a conceptual framework highlighting the central role of institutions Ð regularized patterns of behavior between individuals and groups in society Ð in mediating environment-society relationships. Grounded in an extended form of entitlements analysis, the framework explores how di erently positioned social actors command environmental goods and services that are instrumental to their well-being. Further insights are drawn from analyses of social di erence;``new'', dynamic ecology; new institutional economics; structuration theory, and landscape history. The theoretical argument is illustrated with case material from India, South Africa and Ghana. Ó

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“…Based on important critiques of an undemocratic and unequal development process which had often produced locally unpopular and thus ineffective projects, the involvement of local people was intended to produce betterdesigned projects that had the endorsement of local communities, through an egalitarian and democratic process (Asthana & Oostvogels, 1996;Nelson & Wright, 1995). An optimistic, even utopian discourse ensued (Henkel & Stirrat, 2001), in which the 'last' would be 'put first' (Chambers, 1983), development would be 'people-centred' (Korten, 1990), and communities, which were presumed homogenous, would be engaged.…”

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The necessary contradictions of ‘community-led’ health promotion: A case study of HIV prevention in an Indian red light district

Cornish

Ghosh²

2007

Social Science & Medicine

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Power and Participatory Development

Cited by 330 publications

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Is research keeping up with changes in landscape policy? A review of the literature

Is research keeping up with changes in landscape policy? A review of the literature

Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management

The necessary contradictions of ‘community-led’ health promotion: A case study of HIV prevention in an Indian red light district

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