Understanding environmental policy processes : cases from Africa / James Keeley and Ian Scoones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keeley, James.

Contributor:

Scoones, Ian.

Standardized Title:

Understanding Environmental Policy Processes (Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soil fertility--Ethiopia--Management.

Soil fertility.

Soil fertility--Mali--Management.

Soil fertility--Zimbabwe--Management.

Environmental policy--Ethiopia.

Environmental policy.

Environmental policy--Mali.

Environmental policy--Zimbabwe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation A critical analysis of the post-Rio consensus on environment and development which questions the role of particular forms of internationalized elite scientific expertise. It asks why certain understandings of environmental change stick with such tenacity. In exploring this, the authors unravel the politics of knowledge surrounding policymaking, looking particularly at Ethiopia, Mali and Zimbabwe and their land and soils management. The book also looks at prospects for more inclusive, participatory forms of policymaking.

Contents:

Cover; Dedication; Understanding Environmental Policy Processes; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Knowledge, Power and Politics: Environmental Policy Processes in Africa; Introduction; Science, policy and development; African contexts; Agriculture, natural resources and livelihoods; Science and policy processes; People-state relations; Citizen engagement and the policy process; A comparative and multi-sited approach; Brief overview of the book; 2 Understanding Environmental Policy Processes: a Conceptual Map; Introduction; What is policy?

Politics and policy processesScience, technocracy and expertise; Political interests and policy change; Actor-oriented and practice-based approaches; Policy as discourse; Conclusion; 3 Global Science, Global Policy: International Policy Processes in Africa; Introduction; Creating a story line: the emergence of a soil fertility narrative for Africa; Constructing facts: the emergence of a scientific case; Dealing with complexity and uncertainty: the anatomy of a scientific dispute; Extending the ideas: the creation of actor networks

Creating a global network: the origins of the Soil Fertility InitiativeLinking the global and the local; Bureaucratic politics: inter- and intra-organizational dynamics; Institutional mandates, bureaucratic politics and the Soil Fertility Initiative; Conclusion; 4 Knowledge, Power and Politics: the Environmental Policy-making Process in Ethiopia; Introduction; A short history of the agriculture and natural-resources policy debate in Ethiopia; A Green Revolution in Ethiopia?; Environmental crisis, environmental rehabilitation

The establishment of policy debates in Ethiopia: actor networks and policy spaceUnderstanding policy change: the case of the emerging participation agenda; Regionalization and policy-making: the contrasting cases of Tigray and the SNNPR; Conclusion; 5 Environmental Policy-making in Mali: Science, Bureaucracy and Soil Fertility Narratives; Introduction; Contexts for policy processes in Mali; A productionist narrative; Research styles: the legacy of French colonial science; The influence of Dutch research; Constructing the narrative; A land management narrative

Compromise or conflict? The case of the Soil Fertility Initiative in MaliNew spaces, new directions?; 6 Environmental Policy-making in Zimbabwe: Challenging the Technocracy?; Introduction; Framing policy; Continuities in policy-making; Science and the policy process; Changing contexts; Participation: extending or challenging the dominant discourse?; Conclusion; 7 Spaces for Engagement: Science, Experts and Citizens; Introduction; Contexts for policy processes in Africa; Ethiopia; Mali; Zimbabwe; Spaces for engagement; Knowledge, expertise and policy-making; Prospects for participation; Notes

References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-216) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-136-54971-4

1-84977-362-9

1-280-47595-1

9786610475957

1-136-54972-2

600-00-0308-0

1-4175-4272-1

9781849773621

OCLC:

56675975

Publisher Number:

9781853839801