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标题：Power and Conflict in Adaptive Management: Analyzing the Discourse of Riparian Management on Public Lands
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作者：Jennifer S Arnold ; Mirka Koro-Ljungberg ; Wendy-Lin Bartels 等
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2012
卷号：17
期号：1
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：Adaptive collaborative management emphasizes stakeholder engagement as a crucial component of resilientsocial-ecological systems. Collaboration among diverse stakeholders is expected to enhance learning, build social legitimacyfor decision making, and establish relationships that support learning and adaptation in the long term. However, simply bringingtogether diverse stakeholders does not guarantee productive engagement. Using critical discourse analysis, we examined howdiverse stakeholders negotiated knowledge and power in a workshop designed to inform adaptive management of riparianlivestock grazing on a National Forest in the southwestern USA. Publicly recognized as a successful component of a largercollaborative effort, we found that the workshop effectively brought together diverse participants, yet still restricted dialoguein important ways. Notably, workshop facilitators took on the additional roles of riparian experts and instructors. As they guidedworkshop participants toward a consensus view of riparian conditions and management recommendations, they used their statusas riparian experts to emphasize commonalities with stakeholders supportive of riparian grazing and accentuate differences withstakeholders skeptical of riparian grazing, including some Forest Service staff with power to influence management decisions.Ultimately, the management plan published one year later did not fully adopt the consensus view from the workshop, but ratherincluded and acknowledged a broader diversity of stakeholder perspectives. Our findings suggest that leaders and facilitatorsof adaptive collaborative management can more effectively manage for productive stakeholder engagement and, thus, social-ecological resilience if they are more tentative in their convictions, more critical of the role of expert knowledge, and moreattentive to the knowledge, interests, and power of diverse stakeholders
关键词：collaboration; conflict; critical discourse analysis; dialogue; facilitation; livestock grazing; public participation;riparian management; social learning; stakeholder engagement