Shaping Public Understandings of Environmental Degradation: Measuring Public Participation in Environmental Narratives About Thailand's Forests, 1968-2000

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/957
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Forsyth, Tim
Conference:	Politics of the Commons: Articulating Development and Strengthening Local Practices
Location:	Chiang Mai, Thailand
Conf. Date:	July 11-14, 2003
Date:	2003
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/957
Sector:	Forestry History
Region:	East Asia
Subject(s):	IASC forest management community forestry narratives environment--history environmental policy journalism citizen participatory management
Abstract:	"This paper advances a new methodology for understanding the evolution of environmental narratives in developing countries based on the historic analysis of newspaper reporting. The method employed presents a quantitative measurement of different participation in newspaper reports about forest conflicts in Thailand between 1968 and 2000, and an indication of how forest conflicts were framed as either conservationist, livelihood-oriented, or pro-industrialization. The method allows new steps to be taken in understanding the impact of participation upon redefining environmental narratives, and of means of understanding environmental history critically as a powerful, yet politically-shaped contributor to environmental narratives."

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