Intra-Community Conflict Resolution Mechanism and the Role of Social Capital: Lessons from a Joint Forest Planning and Management Project in Karnataka

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozmond Roshan D'Souza
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Forest Planning ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
Community Conflict ◽  
Forest Planning And Management ◽  
Management Project

Traditional land use and occupancy studies and their impact on forest planning and management in Alberta

1997 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 596-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. Robinson ◽  
M. M. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Forest Planning ◽  
Traditional Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
Forest Planning And Management ◽  
Traditional Land Use

Canada is an international leader in the methodology of traditional land use and occupancy mapping as a result of the negotiation process for settling comprehensive land claims in the North. Since the early 1980s this methodology has found increasing application in the Canadian mid-North, especially in the context of forest planning and management in the northern Alberta Forest Management Agreement (FMA) areas. The goals of traditional land use and occupancy mapping in these FMAs include collection and preservation of traditional environmental knowledge, integration of this knowledge into forest planning and management and, for the Aboriginal communities, active participation in decision-making processes in order to attain sustainable forest management. While the first goal is often met in mapping projects, goals two and three are proving harder to achieve because of conflicting government policy agendas, differing paradigms of community development in society at large, and the lack of recognition and legal protection for Treaty and Aboriginal rights. Key words: traditional land use and occupancy studies, traditional environmental knowledge, bush economy, co-management

Conserving Forest Biodiversity: Recent Approaches in UK Forest Planning and Management

2008 ◽  
pp. 373-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Watts ◽  
Christopher P. Quine ◽  
Amy E. Eycott ◽  
Darren Moseley ◽  
Jonathan W. Humphrey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Planning ◽  
Forest Biodiversity ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
Forest Planning And Management

Roles of scholars in environmental community conflict resolution

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihua Yang ◽  
G. Zhiyong Lan ◽  
Shuang He
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
External Support ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Community Conflict ◽  
The Government

Purpose – This study aims to investigate scholars’ roles in resolving environmental community conflict, as environmental community conflict is becoming an increasingly serious problem in contemporary China, and it explored the underlying factors and mechanisms that influence successful conflict resolution. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a combination of three types of sources – interviews, participant observation and existing literature, the study compared and contrasted 35 cases through a two-stage study project with 25 environmental community conflict cases in the first stage and ten non-environmental cases in the second. Findings – Results indicate that scholars serve seven roles in community conflict resolution: identification persons for potential sources of community conflict and supporters for the people who evaluate conflict problems before attempting to solve them; advisers for conflict protagonists; leaders of many knowledge-related activities; organizers of entrepreneurial activities for other community members; information brokers between community members and other stakeholders; representatives of the government, firms, community members and other stakeholders; and self-interested participants. While scholars’ participation is important for resolving community conflict, their actions are often not effective. Successful community conflict resolution involving scholars must satisfy eight underlying factors: local scholars’ sustained participation; high capacity; improvement on the organizational level of community members; emphasis on high efficiency knowledge and information transmission; effective finding and use of the community’s social capital; continual optimization on their action strategies; obtainability of some benefits; and non-local scholars’ sustained external support through social capital. The more closely these rules are followed, the more successful scholars’ participation in community conflict resolution will be. Originality/value – The findings have practical implications for improving the effectiveness of scholars’ participation in community conflict resolution in contemporary China and even in other countries.

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