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16.05.2024

Elephants in the Room — Analyzing Local Discourses for Sustainable Management of Bannerghatta National Park, South India

verfasst von: Lingaraj G. Jayaprakash, Gordon M. Hickey

Erschienen in: Environmental Management

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Abstract

Landscape governance challenges, particularly in peri-urban contexts like the Bannerghatta National Park (BNP) region in South India, exemplify ‘wicked’ problems due to their inherent complexities. These challenges arise from a mix of conflicting interests, policy ambiguities, and sociocultural dynamics, which often blur the definition of problems and hinder effective solutions. Despite apparent options for resolution, stakeholder disagreements and deep uncertainties about implementation strategies complicate governance. This study, therefore, has two broad objectives. The first objective is to analyze the local discourses surrounding planned policy interventions around the BNP region in South India. Based on the findings, the second objective is to draw insights for sustainable natural resource governance research and practice. We applied Q-methodology to understand the discourses that underpin various conflicts in the rapidly urbanizing elephant corridor at BNP. We elicited information on how various local actors frame solutions to current collective action challenges in the BNP landscape and their perspectives on the proposed eco-sensitive zone notification, as well as the functioning of current policy interventions concerning conservation and development. The study uncovers the micropolitics and power regimes underpinning various natural resource governance challenges and demonstrates the utility of the Q-methodology in bringing diverse perspectives together in response to ‘wicked’ governance challenges.

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1
The national park, highly irregular in shape and approximately 500 meters at its narrowest point, is surrounded by a rapidly urbanizing area. This exposes it to edge effects, pollution, and significant resource pressures.
 
2
The proposed eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) around Bannerghatta National Park was initially set at 268 square kilometers in a 2016 draft notification (S.O. 2116[E]), as per the 2002 Wildlife Conservation Strategy which mandates ESZs within 10 kilometers of parks under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. Following a 2017 expert committee review, this area was reduced to 181 square kilometers.
 
4
Eucalyptus plantations are outlawed in the region as they are known to overdraw the ground water.
 
5
Local self-governing institutions at the village level.
 
6
All the quotes that follow originate from this workshop, conducted in Bannerghatta in April 2017.
 
7
Elephant camps are forest department facilities where captured ‘rogue’ wild elephants, rescued elephants are housed, cared for, and sometimes trained.
 
8
The citizen assembly of village local self governing institutions.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Elephants in the Room — Analyzing Local Discourses for Sustainable Management of Bannerghatta National Park, South India
verfasst von
Lingaraj G. Jayaprakash
Gordon M. Hickey
Publikationsdatum
16.05.2024
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Environmental Management
Print ISSN: 0364-152X
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1009
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-024-01980-8