Chasing our tails: Psychological, institutional and societal paradox in natural resource management, sustainability and climate change in Australia.

Alison Browne, Alison L Browne Brian J. Bishop

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Abstract

Natural Resource Management (NRM) and Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) have been guiding frameworks in Australia for a number of decades.Recently, NRM and ESD have become central to climate change mitigation. In this paper, we explore the psychological paradoxes that function within climate change settings, with particular attention devoted to the way that research and development reinforces these paradoxes by advocating for participatory forms of inquiry. Paradox emerges in NRM at psychological, institutional, and organisational levels. Paradoxes are also features of different forms of democracy such as neoliberal and participatory democracy. Although NRM, ESD and climatechange are often conceptualised as distinct issue domains, these policy areas are fundamentally interconnected in both theory and in practice. This interconnection between these policy and research settings, reflections on paradox, and theexperience of incorporating community psychology into the paradoxical settings of NRM and climate change are captured in this paper.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)354-361
JournalAmerican Journal of Community Psychology
Volume47
Issue number3-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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