Committing to place: the potential of open collaborations for trusted environmental governance.
Conventional modes of environmental governance, which typically exclude those stakeholders that are most directly linked to the specific place, frequently fail to have the desired impact. Using the example of lake water management in Loweswater, a small hamlet within the English Lake District, we consider the ways in which new "collectives" for local, bottom-up governance of water bodies can reframe problems in ways which both bind lay and professional people to place, and also recast the meaning of "solutions" in thought-provoking ways.
Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Claire
C
Waterton
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Stephen C
SC
Maberly
School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Judith
J
Tsouvalis
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Nigel
N
Watson
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Ian J
IJ
Winfield
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Lisa R
LR
Norton
D003256:Community Participation / Q000523:psychology*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004777:Environment; D005068:Eutrophication; D005618:Fresh Water / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D011340:Problem Solving / Q000941:ethics*; D006113:United Kingdom