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Property Lines and Forested Landscapes: Collective Action for Watershed Management Planning

EPA Grant Number: U915190
Title: Property Lines and Forested Landscapes: Collective Action for Watershed Management Planning
Investigators: Waage, Sissel A.
Institution: University of California - Berkeley
EPA Project Officer: Thompson, Delores
Project Period: July 1, 1997 through August 1, 2000
Project Amount: $102,000
RFA: STAR Graduate Fellowships (1997)
Research Category: Fellowship - Sociology , Economics and Decision Sciences , Academic Fellowships

Description:

Objective:

The objective of this research project is to examine two questions:

1. Why, and under what conditions, do private land owners and public land users initiate collective action for watershed management planning?

2. How does collective action for watershed management challenge decisionmaking processes and affect resource use?

Approach:

Using a political ecology analytical approach, I am conducting sociological, economic, and ecological research to examine how individual and collective resource management decisions are shaped by local, regional, and global socioeconomic relations over time. This approach intertwines analyses of individual resource users' decisionmaking processes with assessments of historical resource use, local ecological conditions, and the regional political economy. Focusing on resource users and local politics is essential to understanding the basis of group dynamics and community differentiation. Analyses of ecological conditions and regional economic trends contextualizes the decisions of individuals. Finally, historical research provides a framework to understand the origins of contemporary conflicts.

Supplemental Keywords:

fellowship, watershed management planning, collaborative planning, collective action, decision making. , Economic, Social, & Behavioral Science Research Program, Water, Scientific Discipline, RFA, POLLUTION PREVENTION, Water & Watershed, Social Science, decision-making, sustainable development, Economics & Decision Making, Watersheds, Ecology and Ecosystems, collective choice process, alternative urbanization scenarios, socioeconomics, watershed, forested wetlands, forested watershed, landowner behavior, community-based research, decision making, advocacy coalition framework, land use, policy making, community based environmental planning, coalition formation, watershed sustainablility, political ecology, collaborative resolution, forest reources

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