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Competitive Versus Cooperative Approaches to River Repair

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Contemporary approaches to river repair are economically driven. A competitive (Medean) worldview separates humans from nature, managing rivers as resource and service providers using top-down, command and control practices. In contrast, a cooperative, collaborative, more-than-human (Gaian) approach to living with rivers sees humans as part of nature, conceptualizing the Earth System as a living and emergent superorganism. Bottom-up inclusionary approaches to engagement, participation and governance are framed as holistic and ongoing commitments to place-based, catchment-specific endeavours. Contrasting approaches to conservation planning, restoration activities and co-governance and co-management arrangements are engendered through these alternative framings. Recent river rights legislation offers an intriguing prospect to reframe societal relations to rivers.

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Brierley, G.J. (2020). Competitive Versus Cooperative Approaches to River Repair. In: Finding the Voice of the River . Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27068-1_3

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