Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2008
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Ecology and Society
Volume
14
Issue
1
Publisher
Resilience Alliance
First Page
35
Last Page
35
Abstract
Indonesia’s 1999–2004 decentralization reforms created opportunities for land-use planning that reflected local conditions and local people’s needs. We report on seven years of work in the District of Malinau in Indonesian Borneo that attempted to reconnect government land-use plans to local people’s values, priorities, and practices. Four principles are proposed to support more interactive planning between government and local land users: Support local groups to make their local knowledge, experience, and aspirations more visible in formal land-use planning and decision making; create channels of communication, feedback, and transparency to support the adaptive capacities and accountability of district leadership and institutions; use system frameworks to understand the drivers of change and resulting scenarios and trade-offs; and link analysis and intervention across multiple levels, from the local land user to the district and national levels. We describe the application of these principles in Malinau and the resulting challenges.
Recommended Citation
Wollenberg, E., B. Campbell, E. Dounias, P. Gunarso, M. Moeliono, and D. Sheil. 2008. Interactive landuse planning in Indonesian rain-forest landscapes: reconnecting plans to practice. Ecology and Society 14 (1): 35.
Comments
Originally published by Resilience Alliance. Publisher's PDF and HTML fulltext available through Ecology and Society.