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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Robson, Mark; Kant, Sashi |
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Conference:
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The Commons in an Age of Global Transition: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities, the Tenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property |
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Location:
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Oaxaca, Mexico |
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Conf. Date:
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August 9-13 |
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Date:
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2004 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2288
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Sector:
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Forestry |
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Region:
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North America |
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Subject(s):
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IASC
forestry
community forestry--case studies
state and local governance
networks
decision making
cognition
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Abstract:
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"The paper is based on a comparative case study of two Local Citizens Committees (LCCs) which advise the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) on the development of public forest management plans in their respective jurisdictions in the province of Ontario, Canada. It uses network, content and structural analyses to identify key context criteria, both social and physical, and analyse their content and structure of causation. Cognitive mapping and network analysis techniques are used to map context criteria and their linkages to identify key context criteria. Mapping was based on the decision maker choice perspective which considers context linkages to consensus-building to be through the beliefs of decision makers (Ford & Hegarty, 1984). Etiographic representations of the relative number of incoming links (indegree) as well as the relative number of outgoing links (outdegree) of key context criteria are then used to analyse the structure of causation among and between key context criteria and the consensus-building process for each case. This uncovers the perceived influence of MNR support staff over key context criteria and the performance and relative influence of key context criteria within a case. Key context criteria as well as their structure of causation are compared across cases and used to generate a cross-case explanation of how context influences consensus-building and the development of cooperation among and between local stakeholders and local government agencies."
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