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Reforming Natural Resources Governance: Failings of Scientific Rationalism and Alternatives for Building Common Ground

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States11.959
Free, no sign-up neededJanuary IAP 2007English
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For the last century, precepts of scientific management and administrative rationality have concentrated power in the hands of technical specialists, which in recent decades has contributed to widespread disenfranchisement and discontent among stakeholders in natural resources cases. In this seminar we examine the limitations of scientific management as a model both for governance and for gathering and using information, and describe alternative methods for informing and organizing…

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