Openness in the Face of Systemic Constraints

Openness in the Face of Systemic Constraints

On Science, Public Participation and the Western Australian Regional Forest Agreement

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ( 2009-06-15 )

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This book explores the role of science and public participation in an environmental policy-making process in Western Australia. The focus is on the Regional Forest Agreement (RFA), a Federal Government initiative designed to resolve a long-running dispute over native forest use and management. The analysis reveals a systemic failure in the management of the RFA, pointing towards a process and governing structures which constrained opportunities for stakeholder input and science-based decision-making. A range of cultural, socio-political and personality-based issues are shown to have given rise to the precess constraints compounded by a dominant economic rationality subtly driving the systemic closure of both political structures and processes. Based on the research findings, this book outlines the lessons to be learned from the Western Australian experience as they relate to the design of participatory and science-informed policy processes for the future management of natural assets.

Book Details:

ISBN-13:

978-3-8383-0305-5

ISBN-10:

3838303059

EAN:

9783838303055

Book language:

English

By (author) :

Martin Brueckner

Number of pages:

312

Published on:

2009-06-15

Category:

Management