Attempts to advance environmental governance often encounter wicked problems such as contested images of nature, the issue of who qualifies as a stakeholder, and inherent difficulties in consensus building. Legitimacy in conservation is neither a simple nor a static concept. However, local communities often succeed in managing the establishment and recognition of legitimacy in adaptive ways. This chapter illustrates how legitimacy can be constructed and sustained in local collective management of natural resources, through a case study of the preservation of reeds (Phragmites australis) at a state-owned river mouth area in Kitakami, northern Japan. Reed beds appeared in this area in the 1930s following a government river improvement project, leading to discussion of local communities’ collective rights to the reeds. The case study shows that the historical accumulation of local values such as collective memory, historical collectiveness, subsistence rights, profitability, and conservation values constructs the legitimacy of collectiveness and the status of diverse stakeholders.
Reeds and Rights: Dynamism of Legitimacy Construction in the Collective Management of Natural Resources
Adaptive Participatory Environmental Governance in Japan ; Kapitel : 2 ; 15-31
2022-06-17
17 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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