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标题：‘Mind the Gap’: Reconnecting Local Actions and Multi-Level Policies to Bridge the Governance Gap. An Example of Soil Erosion Action from East Africa
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作者：Claire Kelly ; Maarten Wynants ; Linus K. Munishi 等
期刊名称：Land
印刷版ISSN：2073-445X
出版年度：2020
卷号：9
期号：352
页码：352
DOI：10.3390/land9100352
语种：English
出版社：MDPI, Open Access Journal
摘要：Achieving change to address soil erosion has been a global yet elusive goal for decades. Efforts to implement effective solutions have often fallen short due to a lack of sustained, context-appropriate and multi-disciplinary engagement with the problem. Issues include prevalence of short-term funding for ‘quick-fix’ solutions; a lack of nuanced understandings of institutional, socio-economic or cultural drivers of erosion problems; little community engagement in design and testing solutions; and, critically, a lack of traction in integrating locally designed solutions into policy and institutional processes. This paper focusses on the latter issue of local action for policy integration, drawing on experiences from a Tanzanian context to highlight the practical and institutional disjuncts that exist; and the governance challenges that can hamper efforts to address and build resilience to soil erosion. By understanding context-specific governance processes, and joining them with realistic, locally designed actions, positive change has occurred, strengthening local-regional resilience to complex and seemingly intractable soil erosion challenges.
关键词：byelaws gully erosion land degradation community engagement resilience policy;agro-pastoral co-design interdisciplinary Maasai Tanzania