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Nexus narratives and resource insecurities in the Mekong Region
Environmental Science & Policy ( IF 6 ) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2017.08.015
Louis Lebel , Boripat Lebel

Abstract Several global narratives around resource insecurities have reached the Mekong Region. In the latest reincarnation, experts, bureaucrats and businesses have called for greater attention to a water-energy-food nexus. It is not clear however, if they are talking about the same thing, with the same purpose or that decision-makers are listening. The purpose of this study was to identify the key features of nexus narratives globally, and then analyze how they are being used in the Mekong Region. We used the Narrative Policy Framework to explore narrative content and strategies, and Cultural Theory to help identify policy beliefs of competing coalitions in a mixed-methods analysis. Increasing resource scarcity, which undermines security, was a shared setting in all nexus narratives. Individualist and Hierarchist narratives tend to de-politicize the nexus by promising solutions from innovative businesses and free markets, or through technocratic and managerial control of resources and the environment by bureaucrats. Egalitarian narratives identify victims and villains to re-politicize the nexus around themes of justice and human security. Nexus narratives were used to support and oppose hydropower, irrigation and biofuel development, with Individualist narratives consistently being the most pro-development. Nexus narratives have been widely adopted by international organizations and foreign experts working in the Mekong Region; however, with a few exceptions, they have as of yet had little direct influence on national policy or plans. Several possible reasons are discussed, including limitations of the concept itself.

中文翻译:

湄公河地区的 Nexus 叙事和资源不安全感

摘要 一些关于资源不安全的全球性叙事已经传到湄公河地区。在最近的轮回中,专家、官僚和企业呼吁更加关注水-能源-食品的关系。然而,尚不清楚他们是否在谈论同一件事,是否出于相同的目的,或者决策者是否在倾听。本研究的目的是确定全球联系叙事的关键特征,然后分析它们在湄公河地区的使用情况。我们使用叙事政策框架来探索叙事内容和策略,并使用文化理论来帮助确定混合方法分析中竞争联盟的政策信念。资源日益稀缺会破坏安全,这是所有关系叙述中的共同背景。个人主义和等级主义的叙述倾向于通过来自创新企业和自由市场的有希望的解决方案,或通过官僚对资源和环境的技术官僚和管理控制来使这种联系去政治化。平等主义叙事识别受害者和恶棍,以将围绕正义和人类安全主题的联系重新政治化。Nexus 的叙述被用来支持和反对水电、灌溉和生物燃料的开发,个人主义的叙述一直是最有利于发展的。Nexus 叙事被国际组织和在湄公河地区工作的外国专家广泛采用;然而,除了少数例外,它们迄今对国家政策或计划几乎没有直接影响。讨论了几个可能的原因,包括概念本身的局限性。
更新日期:2018-12-01
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