Environment and Planning C Government and Policy, 2002
Policy analysis is driven by a dominant normative stance that conflates the notion of social welf... more Policy analysis is driven by a dominant normative stance that conflates the notion of social welfare with some notion of collective good or, even more restrictively, strictly utilitarian notions of aggregate benefit. In this paper, we suggest how this perspective leads to a strongly aggregative analysis that masks concerns of actors in their unique contexts. We examine the policies of
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2012
... b & Rolando Tallod b Available online: 25 Nov 2011. ... Parolek, D., Parolek, K. and ... more ... b & Rolando Tallod b Available online: 25 Nov 2011. ... Parolek, D., Parolek, K. and Crawford, P. 2008. Form based codes: a guide for planners, urban designers, municipalities, and developers , Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. View all references). ...
There is a slow but gradual increase in attention toward partnership within the ICT4D research do... more There is a slow but gradual increase in attention toward partnership within the ICT4D research domain. The problem is that current ICT4D researchers tend to pursue partnership-related research with little structure or effort on clarifying or specifying their own conceptual positions or understandings toward partnership. This tendency has limited opportunities to synthesize insights from different studies within the research field. Aiming to overcome this shortcoming, this paper recognizes studies of ICT4D partnership as a subset of the larger ICT4D research field and develops its conceptual framework to help guide study designs and integrate findings in the subfield of ICT4D partnership research. This is accomplished through a thorough literature review on ICT4D partnership. Based on the works of Geldof et al. (2011) as a reference point, a total of 112 papers published between 2000 and 2012 were identified and reviewed. This paper set out taxonomies of themes −types of ICT4D initia...
... Department of Environmental Health, Science, and Policy, School of Social Ecology, University... more ... Department of Environmental Health, Science, and Policy, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA DANIEL TORRES Pawikan Conservation Project, Department of the Environment and Natural Resources, Quezon City, Philippines ...
ABSTRACT This research examines conditions under which environmental regulatory disclosure is mor... more ABSTRACT This research examines conditions under which environmental regulatory disclosure is more versus less likely to work, with focus on the case of the Philippines. Two major findings arise out of a case study. First, we observe a mismatch between the nature of information and the main addressees of the disclosed information, which led the operation of the subject disclosure program to deviate from its targets. Second, this institutional deficiency has to do with the organizational culture and routine practice of the implementing agency. The second finding challenges a major justification of information-based environmental regulation (IBER) administered in weak states and underscores the role that administrative capacity plays in making novel regulations come into effect. Contrary to the popular belief that IBER creates non-governmental forces that offset a limited statehood, it may be less likely to work where state administrative capacity is weak.
For as long has humans have lived in communities, storytelling has bound people to each other and... more For as long has humans have lived in communities, storytelling has bound people to each other and to their environments. In recent times, scholars have noted how social networks arise around issues of resource and ecological management. In this book, Raul Lejano, Mrill Ingram, and Helen Ingram argue that stories, or narratives, play a key role in these networks—that environmental communities “narrate themselves into existence.” The authors propose the notion of the narrative-network, and introduce innovative tools to analyze the plots, characters, and events that inform environmental action. Their analysis sheds light on how environmental networks can emerge in unlikely contexts and sustain themselves against great odds. The authors present three case studies that demonstrate the power of narrative and narratology in the analysis of environmental networks: a conservation network in the Sonoran Desert, which achieved some success despite U.S.-Mexico border issues; a narrative that bridged differences between community and scientists in the Turtle Islands; and networks of researchers and farmers who collaborated to develop and sustain alternative agriculture practice in the face of government inaction. These cases demonstrate that by paying attention to language and storytelling, we can improve our understanding of environmental behavior and even change it in positive ways. About the Authors Raul Lejano is Associate Professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University and the author of Frameworks for Policy Analysis: Merging Text and Context. Mrill Ingram, a PhD in Geography, is an independent scholar in Madison, Wisconsin. She is Associate Director of the Gaining Ground Project, with the Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability. Helen Ingram is Research Fellow at the Southwest Center, University of Arizona, and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author or editor of many books, including Reflections on Water: New Approaches to Transboundary Conflicts and Cooperation (MIT Press, 2001).
Water resource projects are often jointly carried out by a number of communities and agencies. Pa... more Water resource projects are often jointly carried out by a number of communities and agencies. Participation in a joint project depends on how costs are allocated among the participants and how cost shares compare with the cost of independent projects. ...
How can communities enhance social-ecological resilience within complex urban systems? Drawing on... more How can communities enhance social-ecological resilience within complex urban systems? Drawing on a new urbanist proposal in Orange County, California, it is suggested that planning that ignores diverse ways of knowing undermines the experience and shared meaning of those living in a city. The paper then describes how narratives lay at the core of efforts to reintegrate the Los Angeles River into the life of the city and the US Fire Learning Network’s efforts to address the nation’s wildfire crisis. In both cases, participants develop partially shared stories about alternative futures that foster critical learning and facilitate co-ordination without imposing one set of interests on everyone. It is suggested that narratives are a way to express the subjective and symbolic meaning of resilience, enhancing our ability to engage multiple voices and enable self-organising processes to decide what should be made resilient and for whose benefit.
Environment and Planning C Government and Policy, 2002
Policy analysis is driven by a dominant normative stance that conflates the notion of social welf... more Policy analysis is driven by a dominant normative stance that conflates the notion of social welfare with some notion of collective good or, even more restrictively, strictly utilitarian notions of aggregate benefit. In this paper, we suggest how this perspective leads to a strongly aggregative analysis that masks concerns of actors in their unique contexts. We examine the policies of
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2012
... b & Rolando Tallod b Available online: 25 Nov 2011. ... Parolek, D., Parolek, K. and ... more ... b & Rolando Tallod b Available online: 25 Nov 2011. ... Parolek, D., Parolek, K. and Crawford, P. 2008. Form based codes: a guide for planners, urban designers, municipalities, and developers , Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. View all references). ...
There is a slow but gradual increase in attention toward partnership within the ICT4D research do... more There is a slow but gradual increase in attention toward partnership within the ICT4D research domain. The problem is that current ICT4D researchers tend to pursue partnership-related research with little structure or effort on clarifying or specifying their own conceptual positions or understandings toward partnership. This tendency has limited opportunities to synthesize insights from different studies within the research field. Aiming to overcome this shortcoming, this paper recognizes studies of ICT4D partnership as a subset of the larger ICT4D research field and develops its conceptual framework to help guide study designs and integrate findings in the subfield of ICT4D partnership research. This is accomplished through a thorough literature review on ICT4D partnership. Based on the works of Geldof et al. (2011) as a reference point, a total of 112 papers published between 2000 and 2012 were identified and reviewed. This paper set out taxonomies of themes −types of ICT4D initia...
... Department of Environmental Health, Science, and Policy, School of Social Ecology, University... more ... Department of Environmental Health, Science, and Policy, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA DANIEL TORRES Pawikan Conservation Project, Department of the Environment and Natural Resources, Quezon City, Philippines ...
ABSTRACT This research examines conditions under which environmental regulatory disclosure is mor... more ABSTRACT This research examines conditions under which environmental regulatory disclosure is more versus less likely to work, with focus on the case of the Philippines. Two major findings arise out of a case study. First, we observe a mismatch between the nature of information and the main addressees of the disclosed information, which led the operation of the subject disclosure program to deviate from its targets. Second, this institutional deficiency has to do with the organizational culture and routine practice of the implementing agency. The second finding challenges a major justification of information-based environmental regulation (IBER) administered in weak states and underscores the role that administrative capacity plays in making novel regulations come into effect. Contrary to the popular belief that IBER creates non-governmental forces that offset a limited statehood, it may be less likely to work where state administrative capacity is weak.
For as long has humans have lived in communities, storytelling has bound people to each other and... more For as long has humans have lived in communities, storytelling has bound people to each other and to their environments. In recent times, scholars have noted how social networks arise around issues of resource and ecological management. In this book, Raul Lejano, Mrill Ingram, and Helen Ingram argue that stories, or narratives, play a key role in these networks—that environmental communities “narrate themselves into existence.” The authors propose the notion of the narrative-network, and introduce innovative tools to analyze the plots, characters, and events that inform environmental action. Their analysis sheds light on how environmental networks can emerge in unlikely contexts and sustain themselves against great odds. The authors present three case studies that demonstrate the power of narrative and narratology in the analysis of environmental networks: a conservation network in the Sonoran Desert, which achieved some success despite U.S.-Mexico border issues; a narrative that bridged differences between community and scientists in the Turtle Islands; and networks of researchers and farmers who collaborated to develop and sustain alternative agriculture practice in the face of government inaction. These cases demonstrate that by paying attention to language and storytelling, we can improve our understanding of environmental behavior and even change it in positive ways. About the Authors Raul Lejano is Associate Professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University and the author of Frameworks for Policy Analysis: Merging Text and Context. Mrill Ingram, a PhD in Geography, is an independent scholar in Madison, Wisconsin. She is Associate Director of the Gaining Ground Project, with the Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability. Helen Ingram is Research Fellow at the Southwest Center, University of Arizona, and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author or editor of many books, including Reflections on Water: New Approaches to Transboundary Conflicts and Cooperation (MIT Press, 2001).
Water resource projects are often jointly carried out by a number of communities and agencies. Pa... more Water resource projects are often jointly carried out by a number of communities and agencies. Participation in a joint project depends on how costs are allocated among the participants and how cost shares compare with the cost of independent projects. ...
How can communities enhance social-ecological resilience within complex urban systems? Drawing on... more How can communities enhance social-ecological resilience within complex urban systems? Drawing on a new urbanist proposal in Orange County, California, it is suggested that planning that ignores diverse ways of knowing undermines the experience and shared meaning of those living in a city. The paper then describes how narratives lay at the core of efforts to reintegrate the Los Angeles River into the life of the city and the US Fire Learning Network’s efforts to address the nation’s wildfire crisis. In both cases, participants develop partially shared stories about alternative futures that foster critical learning and facilitate co-ordination without imposing one set of interests on everyone. It is suggested that narratives are a way to express the subjective and symbolic meaning of resilience, enhancing our ability to engage multiple voices and enable self-organising processes to decide what should be made resilient and for whose benefit.
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