Using Q-methodology to bridge different understandings on community forest management: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon
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Community forest management (CFM) is promoted as a strategy to reach multiple development outcomes including the sustainable use of resources, conservation, poverty alleviation, and social equity through devolution rights forest-dependent communities. Developing effective equitable strategies promote CFM requires consensus on its goals approaches for reaching those goals. Finding common ground among diverse actors involved in promotion can be challenge when their multifaceted expectations beliefs are not explicitly enunciated or consciously expressed, obscuring contradictions, conflicting objectives, even shared agendas. An initial step would clarify range perspectives that exist identify areas divergent opinion. We report an initiative applying Q-methodology means identifying differing interviews with 34 informants representing 6 stakeholder groups Peruvian Amazon: Indigenous leaders, government policymakers, technicians from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), university professors, forestry students, representatives donor agencies. found four different what should do: balance conservation community rights, encourage capacity enterprise development, technical oversight protect forests behalf communities, support grassroots autonomy. These revealed differences how achieved where between requirements, environmental management, stewardship practices favored. Despite viewpoints, also understanding mechanism could emphasize both supporting This example illustrates generate information perceptions underlying broad such facilitate dialogue around pathways
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Society
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1708-3087']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5751/es-13524-270412