Search Results - Political Science. Government. Local.

The deliberative scientist: integrating science and politics in forest resource governance in Nepal by Ojha, H., Paudel, N.S., Banjade, M.R., McDougall, C., Cameron, J.

“…This chapter provides practical examples to offer insights into the application of deliberative governance in forestry practices. We identify how different aspects of managerialist, techno-bureaucratic domination (legitimated by principles of positivist science) are deliberatively challenged by local people, civil society activists, and action researchers to improve governance practices. …”
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Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi by Dulani, B., Clayton, A., Kosec, Katrina, Robinson, A.

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The political economy of relief aid allocation: Evidence from Madagascar by Francken, Nathalie, Minten, Bart, Swinnen, Johan

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Between state and society: Local governance of forests in Malinau, Indonesia by Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Moeliono, M., Limberg, G., Iwan, R., Rhee, S., Sudana, M.

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The countervailing effects of competition on public goods provision: When bargaining inefficiencies lead to bad outcomes by Gottlieb, Jessica, Kosec, Katrina

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The political economy of food system transformation: Pathways to progress in a polarized world by Resnick, Danielle, Swinnen, Johan

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Augmenting anticipatory action and resilience in fragile, data-challenged, conflict-affected settings, in the case of Tigray, Ethiopia by McTough, Mitchell, Zerihun, Zenawi, Wood, R.

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Can't see the forest for the trees: can declining deforestation trends in the Argentinian Chaco Region be ascribed to efficient law enforcement? by Volante, Jose Norberto, Seghezzo, Lucas

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Knowing the Salween river: resource politics of a contested transboundary river. by Middleton, C., Lamb, V.

“…The basin supports the livelihoods of over 10 million people, and within it there is great socio-economic, cultural and political diversity. The basin is witnessing intensifying dynamics of resource extraction, alongside large dam construction, conservation and development intervention, that is unfolding within a complex terrain of local, national and transnational governance. …”
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The Chicago consensus on sustainable food systems science by Drewnowski, Adam, The Ecosystem Inception Team, Fan, Shenggen

“…Food systems science needs to embrace and engage with all relevant allied disciplines that may include environmental health sciences, epidemiology, geography, history, sociology, anthropology, business, and political science. …”
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The consensual politics of development: a case study of hydropower development in the eastern Himalayan region of India by Joshi, Deepa, Platteeuw, J., Teoh, J.

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Governing the landscape: potential and challenges of integrated approaches to landscape sustainability in Indonesia by Riggs, R.A., Achdiawan, R., Nawir, A.A., Boedhihartono, Agni K., Kastanya, A., Langston, James D., Priyadi, H., Ruíz Pérez, M., Sayer, J., Tjiu, A.

“…Integrated landscape approaches seek to foster improvements in landscape-scale governance to meet sustainability objectives. As scientific and political support for these new landscape approaches continues to advance internationally, there is a need to learn from the processes, constraints, and opportunities. …”
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Institutional challenges to climate change adaptation: a case study on policy action gaps in Uganda by Ampaire, Edidah L., Jassogne, Laurence T.P., Providence, Happy, Acosta, M., Twyman, Jennifer, Winowiecki, Leigh Ann, Asten, Piet J.A. van

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Agroforestry governance for operationalising the landscape approach: connecting conservation and farming actors by Zinngrebe, Y., Borasino, E., Chiputwa, Brian, Dobie, P., Garcia, E., Gassner, A., Kihumuro, P., Komarudin, Heru, Liswanti, N., Makui, P., Plieninger, T., Winter, E., Hauck, J.

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Are landscape approaches possible under authoritarianism? multi-stakeholder governance and social transformation in Myanmar by Forsyth,T., Springate-Baginski, O.

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Integration of villages into WUAs-the rising challenge for local water management in Uzbekistan by Mukhamedova, Nozilakhon, Wegerich, Kai

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Local knowledge and practices among Tonga people in Zambia and Zimbabwe: A review by Yanou, M.P., Ros-Tonen, M.A.F., Reed, J., Sunderland, T.C.H.

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Multi-stakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: Lessons from eight landscape-level cases: Supplemental Material by Ratner, Blake, Larson, Anne, Barletti, Juan Pablo Sarmiento, ElDidi, Hagar, Catacutan, Delia, Flintan, Fiona E., Suhardiman, Diana, Falk, Thomas, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…"Can multistakeholder forums empower indigenous and local communities and promote forest conservation? …”
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Understanding poverty-environment interactions by Musoma, Richwell Tryson

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Beyond climate-smart agriculture: toward safe operating spaces for global food systems by Neufeldt, Henry, Jahn, Molly M., Campbell, Bruce M., Beddington, J.R., DeClerck, Fabrice A.J., Pinto, Alex de, Gulledge, J, Hellin, Jonathan, Herrero, Mario, Jarvis, Andy, LeZaks, D, Meinke, Holger, Rosenstock, Todd S., Scholes, M, Scholes, Robert J., Vermeulen, Sonja J., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…This effort will demand prioritizing key areas of innovation, such as (1) improved adaptive management and governance of social-ecological systems; (2) development of meaningful and relevant integrated indicators of social-ecological systems; (3) gathering of quality integrated data, information, knowledge and analytical tools for improved models and scenarios in time frames and at scales relevant for decision-making; and (4) establishment of legitimate and empowered science policy dialogues on local to international scales to facilitate decision making informed by metrics and indicators of safe operating spaces.…”
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