From learning to fragile governance: Regional economic development in rural Peru

Abstract

This article analyzes the potential of learning processes to promote governance and economic development in rural areas. It examines how three types of learning in the Lurín River Basin in Peru d-technical expertise, storytelling, and experiential knowledge e combine to empower rural communities to act collectively. Based on an analysis of three community-led economic development processesd-irrigation improvements, tourism and food processingd-we show that learning can result in new, albeit fragile, forms of governance and social capital. Fragile governance can turn into regional economic development when learning results in the development of a regional narrative and coordination occurs across both vertical and horizontal network dimensions.

Enacting resilience for adaptive water governance: a case study of irrigation modernization in an Australian catchment

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“…This reflects the immediate concerns of participants, which related to how to better coordinate and influence the governance challenge of the Project for improved support to dairy farmers. We suggest that the workbook intervention enabled, what Chapple and Montero (2016) describe as, fragile governance, based on an enhanced capacity to learn and act together, which required further support and action in the form of leadership, financial resourcing, focus on environmental (along with social) impacts and dynamics, and ongoing institutional commitment to improved governance. A remaining research challenge is therefore to understand how the quality of the collective action for adaptive governance, including its sustainability, can be assured?…”

Study on the Effect of Foreign Language Education on the Development of Regional Economy

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Percepciones del cambio climático en la Isla de Chiloé: Desafíos para la gobernanza local

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