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Information - HS1.2 Linking Participation and knowledge sharing with Integrated Land Use Management
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Many areas in Europe and worldwide are undergoing rapid changes in land use, both in response to global climate change and to adapt to changing socio-economic conditions. A number of European and national projects are struggling with methodologies to manage these processes of change, mainly for marginal lands, in ways that will be physically, economically and socially sustainable. Many of these projects are attempting to integrate bio-physical and socio-economic models that will improve our understanding of complex process interactions. The bio-physical models are generally based on accepted principles, and the challenge is to incorporate these processes at appropriate coarse scales to be of policy relevance. A much wider range of theoretical frameworks is available for the socio-economic analysis, including models based on the social interactions between stakeholders, variants of economic optimisation, and questionnaire analysis. There are also arguments in favour of both top-down and bottom-up approaches. Experiences show that successful land management practices are rarely evaluated and used in other areas. There are few attempts to systematically document, evaluate, share and disseminate knowledge about successes and failures. So-called ‘best practices’ include land user’s own practices, as well as research-based or extension- and project- promoted technologies and approaches.
In this session we invite contributions that focus on the use of participatory approaches in managing land use change. This is thought to ensure the acceptability and feasibility of proposed physical conservation techniques, as well as a sound scientific basis for judging effectiveness at various scales, and is one way of implementing the bottom up approach advocated by UNCCD. Such approaches need to be documented and analysed in order to use them in comparable areas. We recognise that there are substantial difficulties, from initially engaging stakeholders through to final dissemination of the knowledge gained, and papers on both theoretical and practical aspects are welcome.
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