Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management
Forest decision-making is becoming more pluralistic. As the numbers of groups involved in forest decisions have increased, concern about how to accommodate multiple interests has similarly burgeoned. This article presents pluralism as a foundation for understanding how less powerful group's interest...
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| author | Wollenberg, Eva Karoline Anderson, J. Edmunds, D. |
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| description | Forest decision-making is becoming more pluralistic. As the numbers of groups involved in forest decisions have increased, concern about how to accommodate multiple interests has similarly burgeoned. This article presents pluralism as a foundation for understanding how less powerful group's interests can be accommodated. It examines approaches to how interests are defined, communicated and coordinated to review the scope of possibilities for improving pluralism. Experience with these methods suggests that accommodation that genuinely reflects the interests of disadvantaged groups is most likely to occur where state and civil society governance institutions provide opportunities for 1) mutual learning among interest groups, 2) iterative cycles of bounded conflict and cooperation 3) public, transparent decision-making 4) checks and balances in decision-making among groups and 5) the provision of capacity building or political alliances for disadvantaged interest groups. High transaction costs, persistent injustices and impossibility of neutral facilitation pose contradictions to the possibilities of achieving accommodation and need to be recognized and negotiated. |
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| spelling | CGSpace185102025-01-24T14:13:17Z Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management Wollenberg, Eva Karoline Anderson, J. Edmunds, D. forest management forests local population community forestry conflicts decision making interest groups pluralism Forest decision-making is becoming more pluralistic. As the numbers of groups involved in forest decisions have increased, concern about how to accommodate multiple interests has similarly burgeoned. This article presents pluralism as a foundation for understanding how less powerful group's interests can be accommodated. It examines approaches to how interests are defined, communicated and coordinated to review the scope of possibilities for improving pluralism. Experience with these methods suggests that accommodation that genuinely reflects the interests of disadvantaged groups is most likely to occur where state and civil society governance institutions provide opportunities for 1) mutual learning among interest groups, 2) iterative cycles of bounded conflict and cooperation 3) public, transparent decision-making 4) checks and balances in decision-making among groups and 5) the provision of capacity building or political alliances for disadvantaged interest groups. High transaction costs, persistent injustices and impossibility of neutral facilitation pose contradictions to the possibilities of achieving accommodation and need to be recognized and negotiated. 2001 2012-06-04T09:06:32Z 2012-06-04T09:06:32Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18510 en Wollenberg, E., Anderson, J., Edmunds, D. 2001. Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management . International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology Special issue, 1 (3/4) :199-222. |
| spellingShingle | forest management forests local population community forestry conflicts decision making interest groups pluralism Wollenberg, Eva Karoline Anderson, J. Edmunds, D. Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management |
| title | Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management |
| title_full | Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management |
| title_fullStr | Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management |
| title_short | Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management |
| title_sort | pluralism and the less powerful accommodating multiple interests in local forest management |
| topic | forest management forests local population community forestry conflicts decision making interest groups pluralism |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18510 |
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