Particular and wider interests in natural resource management: Organizing together but separately

Arora Jonsson, SeemaSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för stad och land,Department of Urban and Rural Development (author)

The focus that scholars have put on mainstream institutions for resource management, i.e. those recognized by the community and development agents as the primary organizations for resource management, has tended to mask alternative, less visible, but equally robust, organizational forms in which resources are managed and development is carried out at the local level. Mainstream institutions are often inadequate as arenas for negotiating contested interests. By directing attention to women's organizing in contexts in the south (India) and the north (Sweden), it is argued in this paper that although inclusive and heterogeneous structures are essential for the sustainable and equitable management of natural resources such as forests, in order to be able to be so, mainstream institutions need to be able to relate to other structures and forms that are exclusive and represent particular interests. This study of institutional contexts in such different places informs thinking on resource management, development and gender equality, and has practical implications for sustainable and equitable resource management. Importantly, it draws attention to the need to redefine how we study institutions for natural resource management.

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitetInstitutionen för stad och land (creator_code:org_t)
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

In:Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research: Informa UK Limited25, s. 33-440282-75811651-1891

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