‘Mind the Gap’: Reconnecting Local Actions and Multi-Level Policies to Bridge the Governance Gap. An Example of Soil Erosion Action from East Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Kelly, Claire | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wynants, Maarten | |
| dc.contributor.author | Munishi, Linus | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nasseri, Mona | |
| dc.contributor.author | Patrick, Aloyce | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mtei, Kelvin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mkilema, Francis | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rabinovich, Anna | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gilvear, David | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Geoff | |
| dc.contributor.author | Blake, William | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ndakidemi, Patrick | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-08T11:34:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-10-08T11:34:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-09-25 | |
| dc.description | This research article published by MDPI, 2020 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Achieving 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.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.3390/land9100352 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.nm-aist.ac.tz/handle/20.500.12479/965 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | MDPI | en_US |
| dc.subject | Gully erosion | en_US |
| dc.subject | Land degradation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Community engagement | en_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 Africa | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |