A strategic approach to multistakeholder negotiations

cg.creator.identifierEva Wollenberg: 0000-0002-4335-2562
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/818en
cg.journalDevelopment and Changeen
cg.subject.ciforFOREST GOVERNANCE AND COMMUNITY FORESTRYen
dc.contributor.authorEdmunds, D.en
dc.contributor.authorWollenberg, Eva Karolineen
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-04T09:06:18Zen
dc.date.available2012-06-04T09:06:18Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/18303
dc.titleA strategic approach to multistakeholder negotiationsen
dcterms.abstractEnvironment and development practitioners increasingly are interested in identifying methods, institutional arrangements and policy environments that promote negotiations among natural resource stakeholders leading to collective action and, it is hoped, sustainable resource management. Yet the implications of negotiations for disadvantaged groups of people are seldom critically examined. We draw attention to such implications by examining different theoretical foundations for multistakeholder negotiations and linking these to practical problems for disadvantaged groups. We argue that negotiations based on an unhealthy combination of communicate rationality and liberal pluralism, which underplays or seeks to neutralize differences among stakeholders, poses considerable risks for disadvantages groups. We suggest that negotiations influenced by radical pluralist and feminist post-structuralist thought, which emphasize strategic behaviour and selective alliance-building, promise better outcomes for disadvantaged groups in most cases, particularly on the scale and in the historical contexts in which negotiations over forest management usually take place.en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationEdmunds, D., Wollenberg, E. 2001. A strategic approach to multistakeholder negotiations . Development and Change 32 (2) :231-253.en
dcterms.extentp. 231-253en
dcterms.issued2001
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.subjectresource managementen
dcterms.subjectnatural resourcesen
dcterms.subjectforest managementen
dcterms.subjectnegotiationsen
dcterms.subjecttheoryen
dcterms.subjectcommunity actionen
dcterms.subjectdisadvantageden
dcterms.subjectpoliciesen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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