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The aim of this chapter is to show how the first question of this research enables an exploration of the tensions that exist at the nexus between environmental governance and environmental management. This chapter (and the next) asks, how do knowledges of best practice environmental management move across and between international, national and local scales of environmental governance and community-based environmental management? The literature reviewed for this research, the applied peoples’ geography and the edge politics practised in this research suggest that knowledges of best practice environmental management move through local spaces of environmental governance and environmental management. This analysis uses the conceptual framework for cultural hybridity to demonstrate that a sophisticated awareness of how these individuals perceive environmental governance is integral to equitable and sustained environmental governance and management. This is because as the conceptual framework for cultural hybridity illuminates, environmental governance consists of place-based, relational, networked and entangled local spaces of environmental management. Environmental governance is connected to place.
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Her work considers the responsibility of predators including cats, foxes and dingoes, for the decline of medium-sized mammals in the region (see Paltridge 2002).
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There are also criticisms of the community consultation process for the Regional Catchment Strategy. For example, the project officer explains that the original draft did not include the people in the picture.
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Ironically because of the innovative focus upon creating networks between disciplines for better and more sustainable desert livelihoods and because the DKCRC is outside the box of the typical Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) industry mould, it may be a one-off experiment, with the Federal Government reverting to more traditional science research structures. As an active Desert Fire project member states, [in] the next round of CRCs that have just gone through… similar socially oriented CRCs didn’t get up.
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Maclean, K. (2015). Spaces of Environmental Governance. In: Cultural Hybridity and the Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-323-1_6
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