Using Q-methodology to bridge different understandings on community forest management: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon

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dc.creatorSarmiento Barletti, J.P.
dc.creatorCronkleton, P.
dc.creatorHeise Vigil, N.
dc.date2022-11-15
dc.date2023-01-24T08:14:33Z
dc.date2023-01-24T08:14:33Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T13:59:17Z
dc.descriptionCommunity forest management (CFM) is promoted as a strategy to reach multiple development outcomes including the sustainable use of forest resources, forest conservation, poverty alleviation, and social equity through the devolution of rights to forest-dependent communities. Developing effective and equitable strategies to promote CFM requires consensus on its goals and the approaches for reaching those goals. Finding common ground among diverse actors involved in the promotion of CFM can be a challenge when their multifaceted expectations and beliefs are not explicitly enunciated or consciously expressed, obscuring contradictions, conflicting objectives, or even shared agendas. An initial step to reaching consensus would be to clarify the range of perspectives that exist to identify common ground and areas of divergent opinion. We report on an initiative applying Q-methodology as a means of identifying differing perspectives on CFM through interviews with 34 informants representing 6 stakeholder groups involved in the promotion of CFM in the Peruvian Amazon: Indigenous leaders, government policymakers, technicians from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), university professors, forestry students, and representatives of donor agencies. We found four different perspectives on what CFM should do: balance conservation with community rights, encourage capacity and enterprise development, technical oversight to protect forests on behalf of Indigenous communities, and support for grassroots Indigenous autonomy. These perspectives revealed differences in how conservation should be achieved and where balance between technical requirements, Indigenous environmental management, and stewardship practices should be favored. Despite different viewpoints, the perspectives also revealed shared understanding of CFM as a mechanism that could emphasize both supporting community rights and conservation goals. This example illustrates how Q-methodology can generate information on the range of perceptions underlying broad strategies such as the promotion of CFM that can facilitate dialogue around shared pathways and agendas.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/127974
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/70345
dc.languageen
dc.publisherResilience Alliance, Inc.
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceSarmiento Barletti, J., P. Cronkleton, and N. M. Heise Vigil. 2022. Using Q-methodology to bridge different understandings on community forest management: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon. Ecology and Society 27(4):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13524-270412
dc.subjectcommunity forestry
dc.subjectforest management
dc.subjectconservation
dc.subjectindigenous people
dc.subjectecology
dc.subjectdevelopment
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjectresource conservation
dc.subjectpoverty alleviation
dc.subjectequity
dc.subjectland rights
dc.subjectcommunities
dc.subjectstakeholders
dc.subjectindigenous peoples
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectnon-governmental organizations
dc.subjectforests
dc.subjectmethodology
dc.subjectamazon river
dc.titleUsing Q-methodology to bridge different understandings on community forest management: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon
dc.typeJournal Article

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