WFRF:(von Essen Erica)
Search: WFRF:(von Essen Erica) > How Stakeholder Co-...
- 37 of 81
- Previous record
- Next record
- To hitlist
How Stakeholder Co-management Reproduces Conservation Conflicts: Revealing Rationality Problems in Swedish Wolf Conservation
-
- Von Essen, Erica (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för stad och land,Department of Urban and Rural Development
-
- Hansen, Hans Peter (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för stad och land,Department of Urban and Rural Development
- (creator_code:org_t)
- Medknow, 2015
- 2015
- English.
- In: Conservation and Society. - : Medknow. - 0972-4923 .- 0975-3133. ; 13, s. 332-344
- Journal article (peer-reviewed)
Abstract
Subject headings
Close
- 'Stakeholder' has become the primary category of political actor in decision-making, not least within nature conservation. Drawing from Habermas' theory on communicative action, this article argues that there are democratic deficits to the stakeholder model that promote citizens to remain locked in predetermined, polarized positions. It contends that the stakeholder model must, hence, be scrutinized with respect to its potential role in perpetuating conservation conflicts in modernity. Using the case study of stakeholder-based game management delegations (GMDs) in Sweden, our research identifies four barriers, which tie to the instrumental basis and liberal democratic legacy of the stakeholder approach: 1) strong sense of accountability; 2) overly purposive atmosphere; 3) overemphasis on decision as final outcome; and 4) perceived inability on the part of the delegates to influence science-led decision-making. The article suggests that these democratic deficits preclude the deliberation and contestation necessary to legitimate conservation policy. Indeed, stakeholder rationality causes citizens to become inert, instrumental agents who approach discussion with strategic rather than communicative rationality. We conclude that the deficits of the stakeholder model currently: 1) restrict democratic freedom for citizens; 2) engender a crisis of legitimacy of management; and 3) reproduce the conflict, which in Sweden relates to the conservation of wolves.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Statsvetenskap -- Studier av offentlig förvaltning (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Political Science -- Public Administration Studies (hsv//eng)
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
Find in a library
- Conservation and Society (Search for host publication in LIBRIS)
To the university's database
- 37 of 81
- Previous record
- Next record
- To hitlist
Find more in SwePub
- By the author/editor
- Von Essen, Erica
- Hansen, Hans Pet ...
- About the subject
-
- SOCIAL SCIENCES
- SOCIAL SCIENCES
- and Political Scienc ...
- and Public Administr ...
- Articles in the publication
- Conservation and ...
- By the university
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Search outside SwePub
- Extend your search to:
- Google Book Search
- Google Scholar
Kungliga biblioteket hanterar dina personuppgifter i enlighet med EU:s dataskyddsförordning (2018), GDPR. Läs mer om hur det funkar här.
Så här hanterar KB dina uppgifter vid användning av denna tjänst.
- Copyright © LIBRIS - National Library Systems
- LIBRIS.kb.se
