Exploring prospects of deliberation in intractable natural resource management conflicts
Deliberative processes are increasingly advocated as means to handle intractable natural resource management (NRM) conflicts. Research shows that disputing actors can deliberate and achieve higher degrees of mutual understanding and working agreements under ideal conditions, but the transferability...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-194830 2023-10-09T21:54:35+02:00 Exploring prospects of deliberation in intractable natural resource management conflicts Johansson, Andreas Lindahl, Karin Beland Zachrisson, Anna 2022 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-194830 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115205 eng eng Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen Unit of Political Science, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden Journal of Environmental Management, 0301-4797, 2022, 315, orcid:0000-0002-2372-1551 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-194830 doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115205 PMID 35533469 ISI:000832009800008 Scopus 2-s2.0-85129765758 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Conflict management Deliberation Deliberative democracy Frame analysis Mining conflicts Natural resource management Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies) Statsvetenskap (exklusive studier av offentlig förvaltning och globaliseringsstudier) Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2022 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115205 2023-09-22T14:01:14Z Deliberative processes are increasingly advocated as means to handle intractable natural resource management (NRM) conflicts. Research shows that disputing actors can deliberate and achieve higher degrees of mutual understanding and working agreements under ideal conditions, but the transferability of these findings to real-world intractable NRM conflicts can be questioned. This paper explores the possibilities of designing and realizing deliberation and its expected outcomes in real-world NRM conflicts. We used recommended design principles to set up deliberative processes in two intractable mining conflicts involving indigenous peoples in Northern Sweden and assessed the actors’ communication and outcomes using frame analysis. The results show that the recommended design principles are hard, but not impossible, to fully implement in intractable NRM conflicts. Both conflicts proved difficult to deliberate and resolve in the sense of reaching agreements. However, the findings suggest that deliberation, as well as meta-consensus, or structured disagreement, is possible to achieve in settings with favorable conditions, e.g. good and established inter-group relations prior to the conflict. In the absence of these conditions, where relations were hostile and shaped by historical and institutional injustices, deliberation was not achieved. In both cases, polarization among the participants remained, or increased, in spite of the deliberative activities. The study highlights the importance of understanding deliberation as embedded in place specific historical and institutional contexts which shape both process and outcomes in powerful ways. More efforts should focus on alternative, or complementary, ways to handle intractable NRM conflicts, including how contested experiences of history, institutions and Indigenous rights can be addressed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) Journal of Environmental Management 315 115205 |
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Deliberative processes are increasingly advocated as means to handle intractable natural resource management (NRM) conflicts. Research shows that disputing actors can deliberate and achieve higher degrees of mutual understanding and working agreements under ideal conditions, but the transferability of these findings to real-world intractable NRM conflicts can be questioned. This paper explores the possibilities of designing and realizing deliberation and its expected outcomes in real-world NRM conflicts. We used recommended design principles to set up deliberative processes in two intractable mining conflicts involving indigenous peoples in Northern Sweden and assessed the actors’ communication and outcomes using frame analysis. The results show that the recommended design principles are hard, but not impossible, to fully implement in intractable NRM conflicts. Both conflicts proved difficult to deliberate and resolve in the sense of reaching agreements. However, the findings suggest that deliberation, as well as meta-consensus, or structured disagreement, is possible to achieve in settings with favorable conditions, e.g. good and established inter-group relations prior to the conflict. In the absence of these conditions, where relations were hostile and shaped by historical and institutional injustices, deliberation was not achieved. In both cases, polarization among the participants remained, or increased, in spite of the deliberative activities. The study highlights the importance of understanding deliberation as embedded in place specific historical and institutional contexts which shape both process and outcomes in powerful ways. More efforts should focus on alternative, or complementary, ways to handle intractable NRM conflicts, including how contested experiences of history, institutions and Indigenous rights can be addressed. |
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Exploring prospects of deliberation in intractable natural resource management conflicts |
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Journal of Environmental Management, 0301-4797, 2022, 315, orcid:0000-0002-2372-1551 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-194830 doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115205 PMID 35533469 ISI:000832009800008 Scopus 2-s2.0-85129765758 |
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