Seven design principles for promoting scholars' participation in combating desertification
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19500017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lihua Yang (0000-0003-1037-9344), Jianguo Wu (0000-0002-1182-3024, Arizona State University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 109-119 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-4509 • E-ISSN: 1745-2627 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13504500903478744 |
| OpenAlex | W2098184668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 38 |
Desertification has been widely recognized as a major environmental and ecological problem facing humanity today. Combating desertification is a global challenge for sustainable development and requires collective action involving government, local communities, businesses, NGOs, and international organizations. Scholars' role in this important endeavor and their mechanisms of participation, however, has received little attention in the mainstream discourse concerning global desertification control. Comparing and contrasting 30 case studies around the world, our study suggests that successful scholar-participated governance needs to satisfy seven design principles: (i) sustained participation of field-based scholars; (ii) federal organizational structure and concrete and stratified roles; (iii) democratic and collaborative management with strictly implemented mechanisms of awards and sanctions; (iv) consistent local scholar entrepreneurship; (v) realization of expected benefits; (vi) experiment–extension methods; and (vii) reliable external support. The better satisfied these principles are, the more successful is the effort to combat desertification. These findings provide evidence that stronger proactive participation of scientists and practitioners is urgently needed to tackle pressing environmental problems such as desertification
Desertification · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Mainstream · Political science · Public relations · Sanctions · Sustainable development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Ecology
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| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |