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Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management

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Title Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management
 
Creator Wollenberg, Eva K.
Anderson, J.
Edmunds, D.
 
Subject forest management
forests
local population
community forestry
conflicts
decision making
interest groups
pluralism
 
Description Forest decision-making is becoming more pluralistic. As the numbers of groups involved in forest decisions have increased, concern about how to accommodate multiple interests has similarly burgeoned. This article presents pluralism as a foundation for understanding how less powerful group's interests can be accommodated. It examines approaches to how interests are defined, communicated and coordinated to review the scope of possibilities for improving pluralism. Experience with these methods suggests that accommodation that genuinely reflects the interests of disadvantaged groups is most likely to occur where state and civil society governance institutions provide opportunities for 1) mutual learning among interest groups, 2) iterative cycles of bounded conflict and cooperation 3) public, transparent decision-making 4) checks and balances in decision-making among groups and 5) the provision of capacity building or political alliances for disadvantaged interest groups. High transaction costs, persistent injustices and impossibility of neutral facilitation pose contradictions to the possibilities of achieving accommodation and need to be recognized and negotiated.
 
Date 2001
2012-06-04T09:06:32Z
2012-06-04T09:06:32Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Wollenberg, E., Anderson, J., Edmunds, D. 2001. Pluralism and the less powerful: accommodating multiple interests in local forest management . International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology Special issue, 1 (3/4) :199-222.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18510
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/1036
 
Language en
 
Format p. 199-222
 
Source International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology