The tyranny of localism: Indigenous participation in community-based environmental management
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2005
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Lane, Marcus B.
Corbett, T.
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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 2005; 7 (2):141-159
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Marcus Lane and Tony Corbett
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This paper examines the claim that community-based environmental management is fairer and more democratic than so-called ‘top-down' approaches. The paper examines the experience of Australian indigenous peoples with a national, community-based environmental management programme. The analysis of the programme reveals systemic marginalization of indigenous peoples. The paper suggests that ‘bottom-up' governance serves to magnify the importance of local material and symbolic contests in which indigenous groups are engaged. Community-based environmental management can fail precisely because of what many of its advocates take to be its more democratic quality: its localism.
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School of Social Sciences : Geographical and Environmental Studies
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