Governance for Sustainability: Towards a ‘Thick’ Analysis of Environmental Decisionmaking

Environment and Planning A - Tập 35 Số 6 - Trang 1095-1110 - 2003
W. Neil Adger1, Katrina Brown1, Jenny Fairbrass1, Andrew Jordan1, Jouni Paavola1, Sérgio Rosendo1, Gill Seyfang1
1Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, England

Tóm tắt

Environmental decisions made by individuals, civil society, and the state involve questions of economic efficiency, environmental effectiveness, equity, and political legitimacy. These four criteria are constitutive of the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, which has become the dominant rhetorical device of environmental governance. We discuss the tendency for disciplinary research to focus on particular subsets of the four criteria, and argue that such a practice promotes solutions that do not acknowledge the dynamics of scale and the heterogeneity of institutional contexts. We advocate an interdisciplinary framework for the analysis of environmental decisionmaking that seeks to identify legitimate and context-sensitive institutional solutions producing equitable, efficient, and effective outcomes. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach by using it to examine decisions concerning contested nature conservation and multiple-use commons in the management of Hickling Broad in Norfolk in the United Kingdom. We conclude that interdisciplinary approaches enable the generalisation and transfer of lessons in a way that respects the specifics and context of the issue at hand.

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Environment and Planning A

Tập 35 Số 6

1095-1110

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