One frequently discussed implication of neoliberalism is a movement towards collaborative community processes as an alternative to traditional top down resource management and regulatory actions by the state. Some suggest that in certain contexts, devolved government processes, such as collaborative or community management, allow powerful capital interests to co-opt democratic processes for further accumulation while circumventing traditional regulatory enforcement (Purcell 2009). These devolved collaborative approaches have been applied in a number of contexts and have been prevalent in the Western United States because of the large proportion of publicly managed lands and resources. In the Klamath River Basin, collaborative governance has
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The primary focus for geographer’s studying water governance in the Klamath Basin has applied the the Resilience Theory approach pioneered by Holling and Gunderson (2001), and the Adaptive Governance approach, and suggests that the Klamath Settlement negotiations are a more nuanced form of environmental management that allows plans to be tailored to dynamic ecologies and social systems Chaffin, B., R. Craig, and H. Gosnell. 2014.). I am interested in exploring for whom has management in the Klamath River Basin been made adaptive? And perhaps more poignantly, for whom has it not been made adaptive and …show more content…
One aspect of neoliberalization in environmental governance that is of particular relevant to this project is trends in devolved governance, such as collaborative management. I am specifically interested in common debates about scale and constructivism that arise from localized systems of governance in a number of resource regimes, including, fisheries, development planning, and forestry and grazing. The power geometries that affect the use of scale determine many of the components of management, including legitimization of a group’s interest in participating in management. A number of scholars have asked similar questions in different management realms, but few have been applied in the context of water basin
The primary focus for geographer’s studying water governance in the Klamath Basin has applied the the Resilience Theory approach pioneered by Holling and Gunderson (2001), and the Adaptive Governance approach, and suggests that the Klamath Settlement negotiations are a more nuanced form of environmental management that allows plans to be tailored to dynamic ecologies and social systems Chaffin, B., R. Craig, and H. Gosnell. 2014.). I am interested in exploring for whom has management in the Klamath River Basin been made adaptive? And perhaps more poignantly, for whom has it not been made adaptive and …show more content…
One aspect of neoliberalization in environmental governance that is of particular relevant to this project is trends in devolved governance, such as collaborative management. I am specifically interested in common debates about scale and constructivism that arise from localized systems of governance in a number of resource regimes, including, fisheries, development planning, and forestry and grazing. The power geometries that affect the use of scale determine many of the components of management, including legitimization of a group’s interest in participating in management. A number of scholars have asked similar questions in different management realms, but few have been applied in the context of water basin