Environmental justice in Natura 2000 conservation conflicts [Elektronisk resurs] The case for resident empowerment

• Literature concerned with Natura 2000 highlights that conflicts emerged when local communities felt the implementation of the policy was unfair. In the paper, we extend those arguments and say that the contested nature of Natura 2000 conflicts is best understood through a framework of environmental justice that embraces the importance of empowering residents and communities in Natura 2000 processes. We draw from Nancy Fraser's critical approach that organizes justice issues within distribution, recognition and representation domains simultaneously. It enables us to look at the Natura 2000 conservation conflicts from a critical standpoint of local communities. With it, we conceptualize the role of resident empowerment to compliment examinations of environmental policy conflicts. To re-construct the case of Natura 2000 conservation conflicts through the lens of pluralistic environmental justice perspective, we revisit processes in which a sense of (in)justice about Natura 2000 policy nourished conservation conflicts in Poland. 

Ämnesord

Social Sciences  (hsv)

Political Science  (hsv)

Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)  (hsv)

Samhällsvetenskap  (hsv)

Statsvetenskap  (hsv)

Statsvetenskap (exklusive studier av offentlig förvaltning och globaliseringsstudier)  (hsv)

Naturresurshushållning  (lnu)

Natural Resources Management  (lnu)

Genre

government publication  (marcgt)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Justice

Empowerment

Conservation conflicts

Natura 2000