Storytelling for sustainable development in rural communities: An alternative approach
Abstract Mainstream conceptualizations of sustainable development (SD) tend to focus on urban areas or the national or global scale—most recently through the Sustainable Development Goals. This focus often overlooks rural and natural resource‐based communities, particularly those dependent on renewa...
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crwiley:10.1002/sd.2124 2024-10-13T14:09:08+00:00 Storytelling for sustainable development in rural communities: An alternative approach Lowery, Brennan Dagevos, John Chuenpagdee, Ratana Vodden, Kelly Chettinad Academy of Research and Education Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sd.2124 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/sd.2124 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/sd.2124 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Sustainable Development volume 28, issue 6, page 1813-1826 ISSN 0968-0802 1099-1719 journal-article 2020 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2124 2024-09-17T04:47:29Z Abstract Mainstream conceptualizations of sustainable development (SD) tend to focus on urban areas or the national or global scale—most recently through the Sustainable Development Goals. This focus often overlooks rural and natural resource‐based communities, particularly those dependent on renewable resources like fisheries or forestry. Drawing from a comprehensive review, we propose an alternative approach for interpreting and measuring SD in these contexts. We integrate two seemingly contradictory approaches: sustainability indicators (SIs), whose evolution reflects competing views of the nature of knowledge and action in pursuit of SD, and the use of storytelling in policy and planning, highlighting how actors tell stories to garner support for proposed developments, influence public understanding, and mobilize stakeholders. Examining the opposing epistemologies often underlying these two approaches, we posit that they can be brought together through a transdisciplinary lens for sustainable rural development. We illustrate these potentials in Newfoundland and Labrador, a highly resource‐based region in which rural communities are often characterized by deficiencies based narratives. In such contexts, storytelling can allow rural stakeholders to interpret SD while potentially enlisting SIs in telling their own sustainability stories. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Wiley Online Library Newfoundland Sustainable Development 28 6 1813 1826 |
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Abstract Mainstream conceptualizations of sustainable development (SD) tend to focus on urban areas or the national or global scale—most recently through the Sustainable Development Goals. This focus often overlooks rural and natural resource‐based communities, particularly those dependent on renewable resources like fisheries or forestry. Drawing from a comprehensive review, we propose an alternative approach for interpreting and measuring SD in these contexts. We integrate two seemingly contradictory approaches: sustainability indicators (SIs), whose evolution reflects competing views of the nature of knowledge and action in pursuit of SD, and the use of storytelling in policy and planning, highlighting how actors tell stories to garner support for proposed developments, influence public understanding, and mobilize stakeholders. Examining the opposing epistemologies often underlying these two approaches, we posit that they can be brought together through a transdisciplinary lens for sustainable rural development. We illustrate these potentials in Newfoundland and Labrador, a highly resource‐based region in which rural communities are often characterized by deficiencies based narratives. In such contexts, storytelling can allow rural stakeholders to interpret SD while potentially enlisting SIs in telling their own sustainability stories. |
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