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| Lebel, Louis; USER, Chiang Mai University; louis@sea-user.org; Garden, Po; USER, Chiang Mai University; po@sea-user.org; Imamura, Masao; USER, Chiang Mai University; masao@sea-user.org. |
| The appropriate scales for science, management, and decision making cannot be unambiguously derived from physical characteristics of water resources. Scales are a joint product of social and biophysical processes. The politics-of-scale metaphor has been helpful in drawing attention to the ways in which scale choices are constrained overtly by politics, and more subtly by choices of technologies, institutional designs, and measurements. In doing so, however, the scale metaphor has been stretched to cover a lot of different spatial relationships. In this paper, we argue that there are benefits to understanding—and actions to distinguish—issues of scale from those of place and position. We illustrate our arguments with examples from the... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Governance; Institutions; Knowledge; Mekong; Politics; Scale; Science; Water resources. |
| Ano: 2005 |
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| Smajgl, Alex; MERFI Mekong Region Futures Institute; CSIRO Land and Water Flagship; alex.smajgl@mekongfutures.com; Ward, John R.; MERFI Mekong Region Futures Institute; CSIRO Land and Water Flagship; john.ward@mekongfutures.com; Foran, Tira; CSIRO Land and Water Flagship; tira.foran@csiro.au; Dore, John; DFAT Australian Aid, Australian Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand; John.Dore@ausaid.gov.au; Larson, Silva; CSIRO Land and Water Flagship; College of Business, Law and Governance, Division of Tropical Environments and Societies, James Cook University; silva.larson@jcu.edu.au. |
| Policy and investment decisions in highly connected, developing regions can have implications that extend beyond their initial objectives of national development and poverty reduction. Local level decisions that aim to promote trajectories toward desirable futures are often transformative, unexpectedly altering factors that are determined at higher regional levels. The converse also applies. The ability to realize desirable local futures diminishes if decision-making processes are not coordinated with other influential governance and decision levels. Providing effective support across multiple levels of decision making in a connected, transformative environment requires (a) identification and articulation of desired outcomes at the relevant levels of... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Complexity; Development; Mekong; Participatory research. |
| Ano: 2015 |
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