Bottom up and top down: Analysis of participatory processes for sustainability indicator identification as a pathway to community empowerment and sustainable environmental management
Bottom up and top down: Analysis of participatory processes for sustainability indicator identification as a pathway to community empowerment and sustainable environmental management
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jenvman.2005.04.009
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发表时间：
2006-01-01
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8.7
通讯作者：
McAlpine, P
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作者：
Fraser, EDG;Dougill, AJ;McAlpine, P
现代环境管理文献强调，需要社区参与确定指标，以监测实现可持续发展和环境管理目标的进展情况。本文的目的是在三个不同的案例研究中评估参与性进程对可持续性指标确定和环境管理的影响。第一个进程是发展原住民社区、环境团体和林业公司之间的伙伴关系，以解决加拿大西部森林管理方面的冲突。第二个报告描述了博茨瓦纳的情况，当地牧民社区与发展研究人员合作减少荒漠化。第三个案例研究详细介绍了英国根西岛政府主导的可持续发展指标制定过程，旨在监测经济变化对环境、社会和经济的影响。案例研究之间的比较评估使我们能够得出三个主要结论。(1)确定和收集可持续性指标不仅为管理决策提供了宝贵的数据库，而且让人们参与选择指标的过程也为传统发展方法未能提供的社区赋权提供了机会。(2)多方利益攸关方进程必须正式纳入决策论坛，否则就有可能被决策者和利益攸关方视为无关紧要。(3)由于生态边界很少与政治管辖区相遇，因此在选择监测和决策的规模时必须灵活。这就需要了解贯穿景观的主要环境路径，以了解看似偏远的地区如何以不明显的方式连接起来。(c)2005爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
The modem environmental management literature stresses the need for community involvement to identify indicators to monitor progress towards sustainable development and environmental management goals. The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of participatory processes on sustainability indicator identification and environmental management in three disparate case studies. The first is a process of developing partnerships between First Nations communities, environmental groups, and forestry companies to resolve conflicts over forest management in Western Canada. The second describes a situation in Botswana where local pastoral communities worked with development researchers to reduce desertification. The third case study details an on-going government led process of developing sustainability indicators in Guernsey, UK, that was designed to monitor the environmental, social, and economic impacts of changes in the economy. The comparative assessment between case studies allows us to draw three primary conclusions. (1) The identification and collection of sustainability indicators not only provide valuable databases for making management decisions, but the process of engaging people to select indicators also provides an opportunity for community empowerment that conventional development approaches have failed to provide. (2) Multi-stakeholder processes must formally feed into decision-making forums or they risk being viewed as irrelevant by policy-makers and stakeholders. (3) Since ecological boundaries rarely meet up with political jurisdictions, it is necessary to be flexible when choosing the scale at which monitoring and decision-making occurs. This requires an awareness of major environmental pathways that run through landscapes to understand how seemingly remote areas may be connected in ways that are not immediately apparent. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.