dc.contributor.author |
Jeffrey, Paul |
- |
dc.contributor.author |
McIntosh, Brian S. |
- |
dc.date.accessioned |
2011-04-14T23:36:04Z |
|
dc.date.available |
2011-04-14T23:36:04Z |
|
dc.date.issued |
2006-12-01T00:00:00Z |
- |
dc.identifier.citation |
Paul Jeffrey and Brian S. McIntosh, Description, diagnosis, prescription: a critique of the application of co-evolutionary models to natural resource management. Environmental Conservation, Volume 33, Issue 4, December 2006, pp 281-293 |
en_UK |
dc.identifier.issn |
0376-8929 |
- |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0376892906003444 |
- |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/2513 |
|
dc.description.abstract |
To support moves towards more sustainable modes of natural resource management,
the research community has been engaged in an evaluation of paradigms, theories
and methods which might provide useful and usable insights into such a complex
problem set. A particularly influential family of theoretical models concerned
with the processes and dynamics of species evolution has been adopted from the
fields of biology and ecology. This paper scrutinizes the relevance of
biological evolutionary theory to sustainable natural resource management beyond
identification of the core analogy, namely that both natural resource management
and ecological systems are characterized by multiple interacting elements
requiring systemic interpretation. A review of the workings of co-evolutionary
theory within its intellectual homeland of biology and ecology leads to a
critical evaluation of its use as a descriptive model outside of these domains.
Findings from this assessment identify a number of fractures in meaning as the
co-evolutionary model is transferred between disciplinary fields, suggesting
that the transposition has been conducted without sufficient rigour or
consistency. A measured reinterpretation of the applicability of the co-
evolutionary model to natural resources management is thereby undertaken. Using
water management as a context, the paper posits a series of phenomena which
might provide a focus for the application of the co-evolutionary model outside
of biology and ecology. In conclusion, the paper argues that the research
community needs to move beyond a consideration of the complex implications of
co-evolutionary processes to the establishment of a firm, process-based
definition of co-evolution as a type of change. |
en_UK |
dc.language.iso |
en_UK |
en_UK |
dc.publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
en_UK |
dc.subject |
co-evolution |
en_UK |
dc.subject |
natural resource management |
en_UK |
dc.subject |
socio-natural science |
en_UK |
dc.subject |
sustainability |
en_UK |
dc.subject |
water management |
en_UK |
dc.title |
Description, diagnosis, prescription: a critique of the application of co-
evolutionary models to natural resource management. |
en_UK |
dc.type |
Article |
en_UK |