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A strategic approach to multistakeholder negotiations

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Title A strategic approach to multistakeholder negotiations
 
Creator Edmunds, D.
Wollenberg, Eva K.
 
Subject resource management
natural resources
forest management
negotiations
theory
community action
disadvantaged
policies
 
Description Environment and development practitioners increasingly are interested in identifying methods, institutional arrangements and policy environments that promote negotiations among natural resource stakeholders leading to collective action and, it is hoped, sustainable resource management. Yet the implications of negotiations for disadvantaged groups of people are seldom critically examined. We draw attention to such implications by examining different theoretical foundations for multistakeholder negotiations and linking these to practical problems for disadvantaged groups. We argue that negotiations based on an unhealthy combination of communicate rationality and liberal pluralism, which underplays or seeks to neutralize differences among stakeholders, poses considerable risks for disadvantages groups. We suggest that negotiations influenced by radical pluralist and feminist post-structuralist thought, which emphasize strategic behaviour and selective alliance-building, promise better outcomes for disadvantaged groups in most cases, particularly on the scale and in the historical contexts in which negotiations over forest management usually take place.
 
Date 2001
2012-06-04T09:06:18Z
2012-06-04T09:06:18Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Edmunds, D., Wollenberg, E. 2001. A strategic approach to multistakeholder negotiations . Development and Change 32 (2) :231-253.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18303
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/818
 
Language en
 
Format p. 231-253
 
Source Development and Change