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dc.contributor.authorKelly, Claire
dc.contributor.authorWynants, Maarten
dc.contributor.authorMunishi, Linus
dc.contributor.authorNasseri, Mona
dc.contributor.authorPatrick, Aloyce
dc.contributor.authorMtei, Kelvin
dc.contributor.authorMkilema, Francis
dc.contributor.authorRabinovich, Anna
dc.contributor.authorGilvear, David
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Geoff
dc.contributor.authorBlake, William
dc.contributor.authorNdakidemi, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-08T11:34:06Z
dc.date.available2020-10-08T11:34:06Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-25
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/land9100352
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.nm-aist.ac.tz/handle/20.500.12479/965
dc.descriptionThis research article published by MDPI, 2020en_US
dc.description.abstractAchieving change to address soil erosion has been a global yet elusive goal for decades. Efforts to implement effective solutions have often fallen short due to a lack of sustained, context-appropriate and multi-disciplinary engagement with the problem. Issues include prevalence of short-term funding for ‘quick-fix’ solutions; a lack of nuanced understandings of institutional, socio-economic or cultural drivers of erosion problems; little community engagement in design and testing solutions; and, critically, a lack of traction in integrating locally designed solutions into policy and institutional processes. This paper focusses on the latter issue of local action for policy integration, drawing on experiences from a Tanzanian context to highlight the practical and institutional disjuncts that exist; and the governance challenges that can hamper efforts to address and build resilience to soil erosion. By understanding context-specific governance processes, and joining them with realistic, locally designed actions, positive change has occurred, strengthening local-regional resilience to complex and seemingly intractable soil erosion challenges.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.subjectGully erosionen_US
dc.subjectLand degradationen_US
dc.subjectCommunity engagementen_US
dc.title‘Mind the Gap’: Reconnecting Local Actions and Multi-Level Policies to Bridge the Governance Gap. An Example of Soil Erosion Action from East Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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