Conceptualizing desertification in Southern Europe: stakeholder interpretations and multiple policy agendas
Conceptualizing desertification in Southern Europe: stakeholder interpretations and multiple policy agendas
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南欧荒漠化的概念：利益相关者的解释和多重政策议程
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10.1002/eet.381
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2005
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G. Wilson
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M. Juntti;G. Wilson
本文探讨了农业、环境和结构政策与南欧荒漠化之间的联系。重点是政策目标如何在执行过程中演变，并转化为业务一级的行动。结果来自政策利益相关者的访谈，从四个研究领域位于希腊，意大利，葡萄牙和西班牙。政策作为荒漠化驱动因素的重要性因案例研究领域而异，有害的土地管理做法往往是参与土地使用规划和政策执行的利益集团之间权力不平衡的结果，而不是政策本身的缺陷。"荒漠化"定义的模糊性使得人们可以对其性质、重要性及其在土地管理决策中的重要性作出不同的解释，从而使其容易被不同的利害关系方利益所误解和滥用。文件讨论了关于荒漠化的五种不同论述与政策执行和土地利用的四个不同议程之间的相互作用。这些议程或者加强荒漠化，或者减轻荒漠化，代表在利害关系方网络中获得强大地位的行为者的利益，这些行为者往往依赖并同时维持赋予他们对当地自然资源的优先决策权的话语和结构。版权所有© 2005约翰威利父子有限公司和ERP环境。
This paper explores the link between agricultural, environmental and structural policies and desertification in Southern Europe. The focus is on the way policy goals evolve in the implementation process and become translated into actions at the operative level. The results derive from policy stakeholder interviews from four research areas situated in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The significance of policies as drivers of desertification varies between the case study areas, and harmful land management practices often result from power imbalances between interest groups involved in land-use planning and policy implementation rather than from flaws in the policies themselves. The vagueness of the definition of what ‘desertification’ constitutes allows for different interpretations of its nature, significance and the consequent weight it is given in land management decision-making, thus lending itself to be both misinterpreted and misappropriated by different stakeholder interests. The paper discusses the interplay between five different discourses of desertification and four distinct agendas of policy implementation and land use. The agendas either enhance or mitigate desertification and represent the interests of actors who have acquired a powerful position in the network of stakeholders, often relying on, and simultaneously maintaining, discourses and structures that lend them first right to decision-making over the natural resources of the locality. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.