Article by Jan Velvin, Erling Krogh and Pål Olav Vedeld in 'UTMARK' on Trillemarka (Norwegian nature reserve)
WebmasterNår enden er god er vel allting godt? Vern av Trillemarka-Rollagsfjell - styringsprosesser, deltakelse og politiske nettverk.
All's well that ends well? Protection of Trillemarka-Rollagsfjell - administrative processes, participation and political networks.
English summary:
This article presents a case study of a conservation process of a biosphere reserve created from properties of mostly private owners. The main objective has been to analyze the role of competing policy networks that emerged during the conservation process, and the nature of their influence in the ongoing processes. We look in particular at the possibilities for starting sustainable businesses in the protected areas and the various trade-offs with biodiversity conservation. Our findings indicate that disparate local government initiatives and environmentalists’ initiatives fight over hegemony or control of processes and outcomes, where issues over appropriate or relevant knowledge, power, authority and participation and the trade-offs between conservation and use are dominant issues.
After the conservation process of the land initiated by the environmental network was finalized, the local networks were explicitly enabled through political interventions to form conservation and use bylaws that encompassed much of the traditional use of the past, apart from cutting timber and selling land for second homes. An important lesson learnt is that the design of political structures and processes is crucial in securing effective and legitimate processes and outcomes for future planning processes of new biospheres.
Keywords: Governance, policy structures and processes, policy networks, conservation, sustainable development, participation
Updated: 05.01.11
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