Rapid stakeholder and conflict assessment for natural resource management using cognitive mapping: The case of Damdoi Forest Enterprise, Vietnam

Hjortsø, Carsten Nico; Christensen, S.; Tarp, Peter

doi:10.1007/s10460-004-8275-z

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“…To identify relevant actors and their voices, we draw from the technique of stakeholder analysis, which has long been used to understand resource conflicts in environmental projects (de Lopez 2001, Hjortsø et al 2005, Mushove and Vogel 2005. A stakeholder may be defined as any individual or group either directly involved in, or affected by, the exploitation or management of a given resource, in this case, forests (following Grimble and Chan 1995).…”

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How is global climate policy interpreted on the ground? Insights from the analysis of local discourses about forest management and REDD+ in Indonesia

Milne¹,

Milne²,

Nurfatriani³

et al. 2016

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ABSTRACT. The implementation of "reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation" (REDD+) will inevitably be affected by local social and political dynamics, with the potential for success depending significantly on cooperation from a range of stakeholders at the subnational level. Building on recent critical research on REDD+, we look at how global policy is interpreted locally by actors who are likely to be involved in REDD+ implementation. We do this by examining local stakeholder perceptions of REDD+ and forest management in two contrasting provinces of Indonesia, Riau and Papua, where deforestation rates are high and low, respectively. Using data collected from stakeholder workshops, we conduct a discourse analysis that reveals how subnational actors perceive and position themselves around REDD+ and forest governance. The results reveal six discourses common to both case-study provinces, which variously conflict and converge as they are employed by different actors. Seen together, these discourses provide critical insights into the subnational policy environment, which is largely a product of Indonesia's underlying land and forest politics, and they indicate in turn how REDD+ in practice is likely to be interpreted and reconstituted at the local level. A key finding is that local discourses can be grouped around two divergent positions on REDD+: one that supports forest exploitation and sees limited prospects in forest carbon, and one that embraces sustainable forest management and expresses conditional support for REDD+ subject to benefit-sharing and property arrangements. REDD+ practitioners will therefore need to craft policies and project processes that account for these discursive dynamics.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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How is global climate policy interpreted on the ground? Insights from the analysis of local discourses about forest management and REDD+ in Indonesia

Milne¹,

Milne²,

Nurfatriani³

et al. 2016

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“…È emerso che l'impiego delle mappe cognitive nella gestione forestale riveste un'importanza strategica come strumento di supporto del processo decisionale nei casi in cui le decisioni vengono prese da un gruppo di soggetti in modo interattivo (group decision making), come avviene normalmente nella pianificazione forestale partecipata. Infatti, le interazioni dirette (face-to-face) tra i partecipanti possono dare luogo a fenomeni come il pensiero di gruppo (groupthink), vale a dire la persuasione coercitiva e il rafforzamento delle posizioni di potere (Hjortsø et al 2005). Questi due fenomeni fanno sì che da un lato gli attori con un maggior prestigio e potere durante il processo partecipativo possono, in maniera più o meno consapevole, influenzare e modificare a proprio favore le posizioni degli altri portatori d'interessi.…”

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“…In quest'ultimo caso mettono in evidenza gli elementi condivisi dai membri del gruppo e rappresentano la realtà da loro socialmente costruita (Codara 1998). Le applicazioni concrete delle mappe cognitive nella gestione delle risorse naturali sono ancora piuttosto limitate; tra gli esempi più interessanti merita segnalarne l'impiego nella gestione forestale sostenibile (GFS) in Zimbabwe (Mendoza & Prabhu 2003), nel coinvolgimento dei portatori d'interessi nella gestione delle foreste in Danimarca (Hjortsø et al 2005), nell'individuazione degli obiettivi gestionali dei proprietari forestali della Finlandia (Tikkanen et al 2006), nello studio della percezione sociale nei confronti di differenti ecosistemi umidi in Turchia (Dadaser & Özesmi 2002) e nell'indagare le conoscenze dei piccoli agricoltori del Ghana in merito alla gestione delle agroforestry (Isaac et al 2009). …”

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Perceptive analysis of the Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) through the cognitive maps

Paletto¹,

Meo²,

Salvatore³

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IntroduzioneI cambiamenti sociali, economici, politici e culturali dell'ultimo secolo hanno portato, nei paesi ad economia avanzata, a una serie di mutamenti socio-politici tangibili quali l'urbanizzazione, l'educazione di massa, la specializzazione occupazionale e la burocratizzazione (Martinelli 2008). Tali cambiamenti hanno fatto emergere nuovi bisogni e richieste da parte della società nei confronti delle risorse naturali. È in questo contesto che nell'ambito della gestione delle risorse naturali si è affermato un nuovo paradigma di gestione forestale, che ha combinato i principi della multifunzionalità forestale con il concetto di sviluppo sostenibile così come definito dal " Rapporto Brundtland" (Brundtland 1987). Il suddetto paradigma, definito come Gestione Forestale Sostenibile (GFS), è il prodotto del cambiamento nella gerarchia dei valori che ha messo in secondo piano i valori materialistici a favore di quelli post-materialistici (Inglehart 1998). Se analizziamo tale gerarchia di valori nell'ambito del rapporto tra società e risorse naturali, i valori materialistici sono rappresentati dai cosiddetti valori economici utili al sostentamento delle comunità locali (ad esempio, la legna da arde- it).Abstract: Perceptive analysis of the Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) through the cognitive maps. SFM is the current paradigm in forest management. This paradigm has mixed the principles of multifunctionality with the concept of sustainable development. Despite the association between SFM and public participation, the sustainable management of forest resource can be achieved from the technical point of view both with a topdown approach, where a low number of social actors are involved in the decision making process, and a bottom-up approach, where the number of social actors and interests is broad. Following this second approach, a preliminary stage is the construction of the scenario perceived (mapping of stakeholders and analysis of the hierarchy of preferences and interests). This analysis, achieved through the construction of individual and collective cognitive maps, improves the cognitive framework and supports the facilitator in the decision making process. The cognitive maps of the stakeholders are the starting point of the participatory forest management. The paper focuses on the implementation of a method, based on the cognitive maps, aimed to identify and analyse the perception and the hierarchy of interests of the stakeholders with respect to the SFM. The method was tested in a case study characterized by rural vocation where the primary sector has a key role from both social and economic point of views (Alto Matese, Molise Region).

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“…However, in 1992 only 51,000 ha of forest were remaining, due to the failure to prevent forest loss to other uses (Christensen et al, 2008;Clough et al, 2008). By the mid-1990s, a ban on forest felling became effective, forcing the forest enterprises to replant and protect the forests rather than just utilize them (Christensen et al, 2008;Hjortsø et al, 2005). However, despite the reforestation, the rate of mangrove destruction has been 4 to 10 times higher than reforestation, and all areas of mature mangrove forests in the site have been severely degraded (Buckton et al, 1999;Gebhardt et al, 2012).…”

Section: Wetland Conservation Initiativesmentioning

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“…Lewis (1996) pointed to two main reasons for conflict in protected area management: (1) the perceived incompatibility of meeting local people's resource needs and at the same time protecting nature; and (2) the lack of involvement of local people and others who care about the land and nature in the planning and decision-making processes concerning such resources. Understanding stakeholders' perceptions and motivations is of significant importance in relation to conservation and protected area projects (Hjortsø et al, 2005). The importance of stakeholder analysis is widely recognized as a means for gaining an insight into the complex systemic interactions between natural processes, management policies and local people who depend on the resource.…”

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A study of the drivers of land use change in the Ha Tien Plain region of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Nguyen¹

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The wetlands of the Mekong Delta (MD) have contributed prominently to economic development in Vietnam, especially to agricultural and fisheries development. Unfortunately, the design of wetland utilization has traditionally been considered from an economic rather than ecological perspective, and wetlands utilization has suffered from a lack of scientific guidance. Many wetlands have been lost because their full value to society was not taken into account. Furthermore, the status of the delta's biodiversity is both poorly known and poorly documented. Decades of over-exploitation of the wetland ecosystems have had detrimental effects on the environment. The maintenance of the important economic functions of the MD is dependent on maintaining the wetlands' ecosystem functions.This thesis addresses several gaps in the broader wetland conservation literature by focusing on the research problem "How can the drivers of land use change in the study area be better managed to lead to more sustainable outcomes?" Using Systems Thinking in combination with Bayesian Belief Networks modelling methods, and a case study of the Phu My Lepironia grassland biodiversity conservation in Kien Giang, Vietnam, this thesis examines how successful community-based wetlands conservation can be achieved in the Mekong Delta. The study is comprised of the following components: (1) a review of the history of the drivers of wetlands degradation in the MD in order to better understand the transformation of the delta's wetlands in different periods, and an analyses of the driving forces of wetland loss and the underlying causes that derive from the differing policies of political regimes; (2) a study of various factors that influence wetlands grassland degradation and the likely consequences of conservation of the wetlands for carbon stocks; and (3) an analysis of the factors affecting how local communities' decide to make changes in their land use practices, and policy interventions that lead to the enhancement of livelihoods and improved sustainability of wetland grassland conservation in the study area.The drivers that have contributed to wetland loss and degradation in the Mekong Delta over the course of 200 years can be divided into five periods. The drivers of wetland losses have included: (1) resettlement and economic development policies; (2) population growth and urbanization; (3) demand for food and reclamation of wetlands for agriculture, construction of canals and construction of dikes for flood protection systems; (4) expansion of travel systems (waterways and roads); and (5) exploitation of wetlands natural resources. As a result of these factors, only 0.068 million ha of the original 4.0 million ha of the MD currently remain as a primary swamp forest ecosystem.ii The analysis presented in this thesis estimates the value of CO2 sequestered by different Mekong Delta wetland ecosystems (mangroves, Melaleuca swamps and wetland grasslands) to be between 5.53 Mt CO2e for grasslands ecosystem to 37.49 Mt CO2e for mangrove ecosystem...

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Rapid stakeholder and conflict assessment for natural resource management using cognitive mapping: The case of Damdoi Forest Enterprise, Vietnam

Cited by 51 publications

References 30 publications

How is global climate policy interpreted on the ground? Insights from the analysis of local discourses about forest management and REDD+ in Indonesia

How is global climate policy interpreted on the ground? Insights from the analysis of local discourses about forest management and REDD+ in Indonesia

Perceptive analysis of the Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) through the cognitive maps

A study of the drivers of land use change in the Ha Tien Plain region of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

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