Stakeholders, natural resource management and Australian rural local governments: A Q-methodological study
This paper reports on a Q methodological study of stakeholder perceptions of rural local government management of natural resources. Data analysis of the Q sorts revealed that there are five distinct stakeholder perspectives relating to rural local government and natural resource management. In term...
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Local Government Studies
2007
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| author | Pini, B. Previte, J. McKenzie, Fiona Haslam |
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| description | This paper reports on a Q methodological study of stakeholder perceptions of rural local government management of natural resources. Data analysis of the Q sorts revealed that there are five distinct stakeholder perspectives relating to rural local government and natural resource management. In terms of natural resource management at the local level rural stakeholders perceive local government as an unwilling participant, an inconsequential participant, as a problematic participant, as a potential participant, and, most positively, a participatory partner. The paper describes each of these five stakeholder perspectives in detail before examining the implications of these findings for greater natural resource management at the local level in non-metropolitan Australia. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-290602019-02-19T04:28:11Z Stakeholders, natural resource management and Australian rural local governments: A Q-methodological study Pini, B. Previte, J. McKenzie, Fiona Haslam This paper reports on a Q methodological study of stakeholder perceptions of rural local government management of natural resources. Data analysis of the Q sorts revealed that there are five distinct stakeholder perspectives relating to rural local government and natural resource management. In terms of natural resource management at the local level rural stakeholders perceive local government as an unwilling participant, an inconsequential participant, as a problematic participant, as a potential participant, and, most positively, a participatory partner. The paper describes each of these five stakeholder perspectives in detail before examining the implications of these findings for greater natural resource management at the local level in non-metropolitan Australia. 2007 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29060 10.1080/03003930701289638 Local Government Studies fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Pini, B. Previte, J. McKenzie, Fiona Haslam Stakeholders, natural resource management and Australian rural local governments: A Q-methodological study |
| title | Stakeholders, natural resource management and Australian rural local governments: A Q-methodological study |
| title_full | Stakeholders, natural resource management and Australian rural local governments: A Q-methodological study |
| title_fullStr | Stakeholders, natural resource management and Australian rural local governments: A Q-methodological study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stakeholders, natural resource management and Australian rural local governments: A Q-methodological study |
| title_short | Stakeholders, natural resource management and Australian rural local governments: A Q-methodological study |
| title_sort | stakeholders, natural resource management and australian rural local governments: a q-methodological study |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29060 |