Spaces of Environmental Governance

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to show how the first question of this research enables an exploration of the tensions that exist at the nexus between environmental governance and environmental management. This chapter (and the next) asks, how do knowledges of best practice environmental management move across and between international, national and local scales of environmental governance and community-based environmental management? The literature reviewed for this research, the applied peoples’ geography and the edge politics practised in this research suggest that knowledges of best practice environmental management move through local spaces of environmental governance and environmental management. This analysis uses the conceptual framework for cultural hybridity to demonstrate that a sophisticated awareness of how these individuals perceive environmental governance is integral to equitable and sustained environmental governance and management. This is because as the conceptual framework for cultural hybridity illuminates, environmental governance consists of place-based, relational, networked and entangled local spaces of environmental management. Environmental governance is connected to place.