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Managing for justice in community-based water planning: a conceptual framework

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2010

JONATHON LEIGH HOWARD
JONATHON LEIGH HOWARD*
Affiliation:
Institute of Land Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, PO Box 789, Albury NSW 2640, Australia
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*Correspondence: Dr J. L. Howard. e-mail: [email protected]
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Summary

This paper provides a systematic way to consider justice in community-based environmental planning and management. A conceptual framework connects the literature on management functions to the empirical and theoretical research on justice. Two contrasting case studies of the water reform process in Australia are used to illustrate how to apply this framework. These case studies show that certain perspectives of justice are particularly pertinent during different phases of a planning process, and that community-based environmental planning and management can be more difficult when the stakeholders involved have different values and views about a resource, and when perceived injustices occur early in a planning process.

Keywords

community-based natural resource managementfairnessjusticewater
Type
THEMATIC SECTION: Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM): designing the next generation (Part 2)
Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 37 , Issue 3: Thematic section. Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM): Designing the next generation (Part 2) , September 2010 , pp. 356 - 363
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2010

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