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TY - JOUR
T1 - Committing to place
T2 - the potential of open collaborations for trusted environmental governance
AU - Waterton, Claire Frances Jane
AU - Maberly, Stephen
AU - Tsouvalis, Judith
AU - Watson, Nigel Mark
AU - Winfield, Ian
AU - Norton, Lisa
N1 - Copyright: © 2015 Waterton et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2015/3/5
Y1 - 2015/3/5
N2 - Conventional modes of environmental governance, which typically exclude those stakeholders that are most directly linked to the specific place, frequently fail to have the desired impact. Using the example of lake water management in Loweswater, a small hamlet within the English Lake District, we consider the ways in which new “collectives” for local, bottom-up governance of water bodies can reframe problems in ways which both bind lay and professional people to place, and also recast the meaning of “solutions” in thought-provoking ways.
AB - Conventional modes of environmental governance, which typically exclude those stakeholders that are most directly linked to the specific place, frequently fail to have the desired impact. Using the example of lake water management in Loweswater, a small hamlet within the English Lake District, we consider the ways in which new “collectives” for local, bottom-up governance of water bodies can reframe problems in ways which both bind lay and professional people to place, and also recast the meaning of “solutions” in thought-provoking ways.
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002081
DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002081
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
JO - Plos Biology
JF - Plos Biology
SN - 1545-7885
IS - 3
M1 - e1002081
ER -