Facing strategic narratives: In which we argue interactive effectiveness

Niels Röling and Marleen Maarleveld

Agriculture and Human Values, 1999, vol. 16, issue 3, 295-308

Abstract: The multiple commons is an important context in a world facing the eco-challenge. The platform for land use negotiation is a perspective concerning the good governance of the multiple commons. Platforms are devices or procedures for social learning and negotiation about effective collective action. They create collective decision making capacity at eco-system levels at which critical ecological services need to be managed. Taking platforms seriously as an option for designing a more sustainable society assumes a belief in the human capacity to engage in collective action. Unfortunately, human thinking about humans is dominated by perspectives that emphasize either technical solutions to given human ends, or perspectives that emphasize the selfish nature of human ends. This article focuses especially on the latter: the strategic narratives that have become dominant as society increasingly becomes designed on economic principles. The paper seeks to explain the dominance of strategic narratives and provides social science evidence for alternative perspectives. It concludes with cornerstones for an alternative narrative. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999

Keywords: Strategic narratives; Collective action narratives; Communicative rationality; Adaptive management; Soft side of land (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1007595530813

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