Hanne Svarstad
Biographic Data
| ID | 196897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanne Svarstad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Svarstad |
| SIGNATURE | SVARSTAD H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian Institute for Nature Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9316-0238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 419 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Recognising Recognition in Climate Justice
This article argues that in order to achieve climate justice, recognition needs to be given more attention in climate research, discourse, and policies. Through the analysis of three examples, we identify formal and discursive recognition as central types of recognition in climate issues, and we show how powerful actors exercise their power in ways that cause climate injustice through formal and discursive misrecognition of poor and vulnerable gr…
Political Ecology: A Critical Engagement with Global Environmental Issues
Critical climate education: Studying climate justice in time and space
What education should children and youth be offered about climate mitigation choices? Drawing on critical pedagogy, political ecology, and environmental justice, I here suggest the elaboration of a critical climate education that would provide citizens with knowledge and skills to respond to the climate crisis with responsible action. I argue that students need to learn to critically examine options in their own countries for reducing greenhouse …
Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups
Environmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. In response, scholars are paying more attention to conventional politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and difference in the interactions between human groups and their biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged at the inter…
Reading radical environmental justice through a political ecology lens
Environmental justice (EJ) and political ecology (PE) have grown during recent decades to become leading critical approaches to socio-environmental analyses. The two fields share a history of pluralism and an openness to integrating new theoretical insights. Based on work by political philosophers in the radical justice tradition – such as Fraser, Young and Honneth – a 'radical environmental justice framework' has been established within EJ, focu…
Redd og norsk klimakolonialisme i Tanzania
Finansiering av internasjonalt skogvern som klimatiltak (REDD) har det siste tiåret spilt en viktig rolle i Norges internasjonale profilering. Dette er et tiltak det i Norge har vært tverrpolitisk enighet om, og som frivillige organisasjoner, media og forskere har støttet, i kontrast til en betydelig internasjonal kritikk. REDD passer godt til idéen om «internasjonal kostnadseffektivitet», som har utgjort det klimapolitiske hovedprinsippet for no…
Power theories in political ecology
Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to provide detailed presentations of various uses of power, involving corporate and conservation interventions influencing access to land and natural resources. The results include struggle and conflict. Yet, there is a lack of theoretical elaboration showing how power may be understood in political ecology. In this article, we start to …
Nothing succeeds like success narratives: A case of conservation and development in the time of Redd
This article provides a case study of a project in Kondoa, Tanzania under the programme Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). It demonstrates how a success narrative came to dominate presentations about the project as a multi-win involving not only climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation, but also benefits for local people and poverty reduction. Based on repeated fieldwork using qualitative methods, …
Elephants over the Cliff: Explaining Wildlife Killings in Tanzania
Many incidents of elephant killings have recently taken place in Tanzania as well as in other African countries. Such events are usually presented as results of the rising global demand for ivory. As we show in this case study, however, not all violence against elephants is driven by the ivory trade. This article presents an event that occurred in West Kilimanjaro in 2009 when numerous villagers chased a herd of elephants over a cliff, killing si…
Environnement, discours et pouvoir
A Local Counter-Narrative on the Conservation of Mountain Gorillas
Using social science narrative analysis, we studied how people who live next to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Bwindi INP) in Uganda narrate about their situation. We found a dominant ambivalence narrative, which deviates substantially from win–win and traditionalist narratives, both of which have been produced by external actors about the same case. Each of the two latter narratives is associated with a broader discourse on protected areas i…
The Death of an Elephant: Conservation Discourses Versus Practices in Africa
Environmental conservation in Africa is predominantly presented by key actors in terms of a win–win discourse involving community participation and benefits. By using two case studies from Tanzania and South Africa, we demonstrate how the conservation practices observed do not fit the win–win discourse, but are more in line with the ‘fortress conservation’ that previously dominated both discourse and practice. The Tanzanian case shows how conserv…
Why Hiking? Rationality and Reflexivity Within Three Categories of Meaning Construction
Hiking is a popular leisure activity among people in many industrialised countries. In the case of Norway, a large part of the population goes hiking through forests, mountains and cultural landscapes. What meaning do these hikers attach to their activity? An analysis has been made of letters received from 84 hikers who write about how and why they enjoy their hiking trips. Employing a grounded theory approach, three categories of meaning constru…
"Qu'est-ce que la "political ecology
La political ecology est une approche qui se trouve au cœur des études sur l'environnement et le développement et qui a connu une expansion extraordinaire depuis 10 à 15 ans. L'objet ce cet article est de fournir un bref aperçu en français de ce champ de réflexion. Cette approche analyse essentiellement le pouvoir et les luttes pour le pouvoir en matière de gestion de l'environnement. Ceci rend nécessaire de se concentrer sur les divers acteurs e…
Understanding traditionalist opposition to modernization: Narrative production in a norwegian mountain conflict
In Gausdal, a mountainous community in southern Norway, a conflict involving dogsledding has dominated local politics during the past two decades. In order to understand local protests against this activity, in this article we apply discourse analysis within the evolving approach of political ecology. In this way, we also aim at contributing to the emerging trend of bringing political ecology “home”. To many people, dogsledding appears as an envi…
Discursive biases of the environmental research framework DPSIR
New Protected Areas in Norway: Local Participation without Gender Equality
In Norway, as in many other countries, new protected areas are currently being established and managed with strong policy references to “local participation.” Is this policy implemented in a way that incorporates the concern for gender equality? The present article provides data from a study of 2 cases in which new protected areas have recently been established. The first is the Dovre Mountains Conservation Plan ( Verneplan for Dovrefjell), which…
Community-based Nature Protection: Lessons from Norway
A scholarly article by authors Karoline Daugstad, Hanne Svarstad, and Odd Inge Vistad published in The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review
A case of conflicts in conservation: Two trenches or a three-dimensional complexity
Conflicts over conservation are often regarded as dichotomies of diametrical opposites. When national parks are established in Norway, two stereotypes can be sketched: (1) the ecocentric position valuing ‘pure, authentic nature’, relying on the national government as the only acceptable decision and management level; and (2) a more anthropocentric position valuing cultural landscape elements and certain traditional and future uses of the area, fa…
Analysing Conservation—Development Discourses: The Story of a Biopiracy Narrative
The results of a Norwegian case study on bioprospecting became re-constructed into a narrative which deviated substantially from the conclusions of the research itself. Why did this happen? Rather than seeing it simply as a case of accidental misinterpretation, this incident is examined within the context of one of the two leading discourses to emerge on the global arena in the past decade. Both these discourses encapsulate meta-narratives that p…
Bioprospecting: Effects on Environment and Development
Bioprospecting: Effects on Environment and Development
Advancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses
In the past decade international and national environmental policy and action have been dominated by issues generally defined as global environmental problems. In this article, we identify the major discourses associated with four global environmental issues: deforestation, desertification, biodiversity use and climate change. These discourses are analysed in terms of their messages, narrative structures and policy prescriptions. We find striking…
Except-Africa’
Advancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses
In the past decade international and national environmental policy and action have been dominated by issues generally defined as global environmental problems. In this article, we identify the major discourses associated with four global environmental issues: deforestation, desertification, biodiversity use and climate change. These discourses are analysed in terms of their messages, narrative structures and policy prescriptions. We find striking…
Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups
Environmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. In response, scholars are paying more attention to conventional politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and difference in the interactions between human groups and their biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged at the inter…
Reading radical environmental justice through a political ecology lens
Environmental justice (EJ) and political ecology (PE) have grown during recent decades to become leading critical approaches to socio-environmental analyses. The two fields share a history of pluralism and an openness to integrating new theoretical insights. Based on work by political philosophers in the radical justice tradition – such as Fraser, Young and Honneth – a 'radical environmental justice framework' has been established within EJ, focu…
Nothing succeeds like success narratives: A case of conservation and development in the time of Redd
This article provides a case study of a project in Kondoa, Tanzania under the programme Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). It demonstrates how a success narrative came to dominate presentations about the project as a multi-win involving not only climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation, but also benefits for local people and poverty reduction. Based on repeated fieldwork using qualitative methods, …
The Death of an Elephant: Conservation Discourses Versus Practices in Africa
Environmental conservation in Africa is predominantly presented by key actors in terms of a win–win discourse involving community participation and benefits. By using two case studies from Tanzania and South Africa, we demonstrate how the conservation practices observed do not fit the win–win discourse, but are more in line with the ‘fortress conservation’ that previously dominated both discourse and practice. The Tanzanian case shows how conserv…
Power theories in political ecology
Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to provide detailed presentations of various uses of power, involving corporate and conservation interventions influencing access to land and natural resources. The results include struggle and conflict. Yet, there is a lack of theoretical elaboration showing how power may be understood in political ecology. In this article, we start to …
Discursive biases of the environmental research framework DPSIR
Why Hiking? Rationality and Reflexivity Within Three Categories of Meaning Construction
Hiking is a popular leisure activity among people in many industrialised countries. In the case of Norway, a large part of the population goes hiking through forests, mountains and cultural landscapes. What meaning do these hikers attach to their activity? An analysis has been made of letters received from 84 hikers who write about how and why they enjoy their hiking trips. Employing a grounded theory approach, three categories of meaning constru…
Elephants over the Cliff: Explaining Wildlife Killings in Tanzania
Many incidents of elephant killings have recently taken place in Tanzania as well as in other African countries. Such events are usually presented as results of the rising global demand for ivory. As we show in this case study, however, not all violence against elephants is driven by the ivory trade. This article presents an event that occurred in West Kilimanjaro in 2009 when numerous villagers chased a herd of elephants over a cliff, killing si…
Critical climate education: Studying climate justice in time and space
What education should children and youth be offered about climate mitigation choices? Drawing on critical pedagogy, political ecology, and environmental justice, I here suggest the elaboration of a critical climate education that would provide citizens with knowledge and skills to respond to the climate crisis with responsible action. I argue that students need to learn to critically examine options in their own countries for reducing greenhouse …
A Local Counter-Narrative on the Conservation of Mountain Gorillas
Using social science narrative analysis, we studied how people who live next to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Bwindi INP) in Uganda narrate about their situation. We found a dominant ambivalence narrative, which deviates substantially from win–win and traditionalist narratives, both of which have been produced by external actors about the same case. Each of the two latter narratives is associated with a broader discourse on protected areas i…
Analysing Conservation—Development Discourses: The Story of a Biopiracy Narrative
The results of a Norwegian case study on bioprospecting became re-constructed into a narrative which deviated substantially from the conclusions of the research itself. Why did this happen? Rather than seeing it simply as a case of accidental misinterpretation, this incident is examined within the context of one of the two leading discourses to emerge on the global arena in the past decade. Both these discourses encapsulate meta-narratives that p…
Understanding traditionalist opposition to modernization: Narrative production in a norwegian mountain conflict
In Gausdal, a mountainous community in southern Norway, a conflict involving dogsledding has dominated local politics during the past two decades. In order to understand local protests against this activity, in this article we apply discourse analysis within the evolving approach of political ecology. In this way, we also aim at contributing to the emerging trend of bringing political ecology “home”. To many people, dogsledding appears as an envi…
A case of conflicts in conservation: Two trenches or a three-dimensional complexity
Conflicts over conservation are often regarded as dichotomies of diametrical opposites. When national parks are established in Norway, two stereotypes can be sketched: (1) the ecocentric position valuing ‘pure, authentic nature’, relying on the national government as the only acceptable decision and management level; and (2) a more anthropocentric position valuing cultural landscape elements and certain traditional and future uses of the area, fa…
Bioprospecting: Effects on Environment and Development
Except-Africa’
Advancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses
In the past decade international and national environmental policy and action have been dominated by issues generally defined as global environmental problems. In this article, we identify the major discourses associated with four global environmental issues: deforestation, desertification, biodiversity use and climate change. These discourses are analysed in terms of their messages, narrative structures and policy prescriptions. We find striking…
Analysing Conservation—Development Discourses: The Story of a Biopiracy Narrative
The results of a Norwegian case study on bioprospecting became re-constructed into a narrative which deviated substantially from the conclusions of the research itself. Why did this happen? Rather than seeing it simply as a case of accidental misinterpretation, this incident is examined within the context of one of the two leading discourses to emerge on the global arena in the past decade. Both these discourses encapsulate meta-narratives that p…
Bioprospecting: Effects on Environment and Development
Bioprospecting: Effects on Environment and Development
New Protected Areas in Norway: Local Participation without Gender Equality
In Norway, as in many other countries, new protected areas are currently being established and managed with strong policy references to “local participation.” Is this policy implemented in a way that incorporates the concern for gender equality? The present article provides data from a study of 2 cases in which new protected areas have recently been established. The first is the Dovre Mountains Conservation Plan ( Verneplan for Dovrefjell), which…
Community-based Nature Protection: Lessons from Norway
A scholarly article by authors Karoline Daugstad, Hanne Svarstad, and Odd Inge Vistad published in The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review
A case of conflicts in conservation: Two trenches or a three-dimensional complexity
Conflicts over conservation are often regarded as dichotomies of diametrical opposites. When national parks are established in Norway, two stereotypes can be sketched: (1) the ecocentric position valuing ‘pure, authentic nature’, relying on the national government as the only acceptable decision and management level; and (2) a more anthropocentric position valuing cultural landscape elements and certain traditional and future uses of the area, fa…
Understanding traditionalist opposition to modernization: Narrative production in a norwegian mountain conflict
In Gausdal, a mountainous community in southern Norway, a conflict involving dogsledding has dominated local politics during the past two decades. In order to understand local protests against this activity, in this article we apply discourse analysis within the evolving approach of political ecology. In this way, we also aim at contributing to the emerging trend of bringing political ecology “home”. To many people, dogsledding appears as an envi…
Discursive biases of the environmental research framework DPSIR
"Qu'est-ce que la "political ecology
La political ecology est une approche qui se trouve au cœur des études sur l'environnement et le développement et qui a connu une expansion extraordinaire depuis 10 à 15 ans. L'objet ce cet article est de fournir un bref aperçu en français de ce champ de réflexion. Cette approche analyse essentiellement le pouvoir et les luttes pour le pouvoir en matière de gestion de l'environnement. Ceci rend nécessaire de se concentrer sur les divers acteurs e…
The Death of an Elephant: Conservation Discourses Versus Practices in Africa
Environmental conservation in Africa is predominantly presented by key actors in terms of a win–win discourse involving community participation and benefits. By using two case studies from Tanzania and South Africa, we demonstrate how the conservation practices observed do not fit the win–win discourse, but are more in line with the ‘fortress conservation’ that previously dominated both discourse and practice. The Tanzanian case shows how conserv…
Why Hiking? Rationality and Reflexivity Within Three Categories of Meaning Construction
Hiking is a popular leisure activity among people in many industrialised countries. In the case of Norway, a large part of the population goes hiking through forests, mountains and cultural landscapes. What meaning do these hikers attach to their activity? An analysis has been made of letters received from 84 hikers who write about how and why they enjoy their hiking trips. Employing a grounded theory approach, three categories of meaning constru…
A Local Counter-Narrative on the Conservation of Mountain Gorillas
Using social science narrative analysis, we studied how people who live next to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Bwindi INP) in Uganda narrate about their situation. We found a dominant ambivalence narrative, which deviates substantially from win–win and traditionalist narratives, both of which have been produced by external actors about the same case. Each of the two latter narratives is associated with a broader discourse on protected areas i…
Environnement, discours et pouvoir
Elephants over the Cliff: Explaining Wildlife Killings in Tanzania
Many incidents of elephant killings have recently taken place in Tanzania as well as in other African countries. Such events are usually presented as results of the rising global demand for ivory. As we show in this case study, however, not all violence against elephants is driven by the ivory trade. This article presents an event that occurred in West Kilimanjaro in 2009 when numerous villagers chased a herd of elephants over a cliff, killing si…
Nothing succeeds like success narratives: A case of conservation and development in the time of Redd
This article provides a case study of a project in Kondoa, Tanzania under the programme Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). It demonstrates how a success narrative came to dominate presentations about the project as a multi-win involving not only climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation, but also benefits for local people and poverty reduction. Based on repeated fieldwork using qualitative methods, …
Redd og norsk klimakolonialisme i Tanzania
Finansiering av internasjonalt skogvern som klimatiltak (REDD) har det siste tiåret spilt en viktig rolle i Norges internasjonale profilering. Dette er et tiltak det i Norge har vært tverrpolitisk enighet om, og som frivillige organisasjoner, media og forskere har støttet, i kontrast til en betydelig internasjonal kritikk. REDD passer godt til idéen om «internasjonal kostnadseffektivitet», som har utgjort det klimapolitiske hovedprinsippet for no…
Power theories in political ecology
Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to provide detailed presentations of various uses of power, involving corporate and conservation interventions influencing access to land and natural resources. The results include struggle and conflict. Yet, there is a lack of theoretical elaboration showing how power may be understood in political ecology. In this article, we start to …
Reading radical environmental justice through a political ecology lens
Environmental justice (EJ) and political ecology (PE) have grown during recent decades to become leading critical approaches to socio-environmental analyses. The two fields share a history of pluralism and an openness to integrating new theoretical insights. Based on work by political philosophers in the radical justice tradition – such as Fraser, Young and Honneth – a 'radical environmental justice framework' has been established within EJ, focu…
Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups
Environmental issues have become increasingly prominent in local struggles, national debates, and international policies. In response, scholars are paying more attention to conventional politics and to more broadly defined relations of power and difference in the interactions between human groups and their biophysical environments. Such issues are at the heart of the relatively new interdisciplinary field of political ecology, forged at the inter…
Political Ecology: A Critical Engagement with Global Environmental Issues
Critical climate education: Studying climate justice in time and space
What education should children and youth be offered about climate mitigation choices? Drawing on critical pedagogy, political ecology, and environmental justice, I here suggest the elaboration of a critical climate education that would provide citizens with knowledge and skills to respond to the climate crisis with responsible action. I argue that students need to learn to critically examine options in their own countries for reducing greenhouse …
Recognising Recognition in Climate Justice
This article argues that in order to achieve climate justice, recognition needs to be given more attention in climate research, discourse, and policies. Through the analysis of three examples, we identify formal and discursive recognition as central types of recognition in climate issues, and we show how powerful actors exercise their power in ways that cause climate injustice through formal and discursive misrecognition of poor and vulnerable gr…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Biology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Narrative (7 works)