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Experts and resource users split over solutions to peatland fires

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Title Experts and resource users split over solutions to peatland fires
 
Creator Phelps, J.
Zabala, A.
Daeli, W.
Carmenta, R.
 
Subject wildfires
peatlands
governance
development
 
Description We provide empirical evidence that supports a commonly-held assumption: that experts’ appraisals of policy options are often very distinct from those of resource users most affected by those policy choices. We analyse perspectives about 40 policy options to address peatland fires in Indonesia, using a Q methodology approach to rank the options according to perceived effectiveness. Peatland fires in Indonesia are a long-standing and complex social-ecological challenge, where unsolved disagreements about policy options have profound implications for environmental governance, resulting in fires recurring and causing significant CO2 emissions and transboundary haze that affects the health of millions. We collected data from 219 respondents, covering twelve stakeholder categories, including small and large landholders, industrial farmers, scientists, local leaders and government officials. We identified the most representative response from each stakeholder category, and used hierarchical cluster analysis to explore the closeness/distance in perspectives among categories. The results show a particularly noticeable distinction between two broad groups, which we labelled as experts and resource users. Experts tend to prefer solutions that are centralised and largely transformative, whereas resource users favour more localised measures that are more compatible with business-as-usual. We discuss possible reasons for these differences, and their implications for environmental governance, including for how scientists engage in policy.
 
Date 2021-10
2021-07-28T02:40:41Z
2021-07-28T02:40:41Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Phelps, J., Zabala, A., Daeli, W. and Carmenta, R., 2021. Experts and resource users split over solutions to peatland fires. World Development, 146, 105594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105594
0305-750X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114428
https://www.cifor.org/library/8075
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105594
 
Language en
 
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Limited Access
 
Format 105594
 
Publisher Elsevier BV
 
Source World Development