Context

The implementation of landscape-management decisions is often blocked because actors disagree in their perception of the problem at hand. These conflicts can be explained with the concept of problem framing, which argues that actors’ problem perspectives are shaped by their interests. Recent literature suggests that social learning through deliberative processes among actors enables shared solutions to complex landscape-management conflicts.

Methods

To examine these assumptions, a participatory process on integrated water-resource-management in a Swiss Alpine region was systematically evaluated using a quasi-experimental intervention-research design. The involved actors’ problem perspectives were elicited before and after the participatory processes using qualitative interviews and standardized questionnaires. Furthermore, a standardized survey was sent to a sample of regional residents (N = 2000) after the participatory process to measure the diffusion of actors’ social learning to the wider public.

Results

The data analysis provided systematic evidence that a convergence of involved actors’ problem perspectives, which were found to differ considerably before the intervention, had taken place during the participatory process. Furthermore, it determined diffusion effects of actors’ social learning to the wider public in terms of its attitude towards participatory regional planning.

Conclusions

The findings confirm the expected mechanism of social learning through deliberative processes and demonstrate it as a promising approach to implementing landscape-management decisions successfully. The catalyzing role of shared interests among actors suggests that landscape-management decisions should be implemented by participatory integrated planning on the regional level, which would require a new, strategic role of regional institutions.

中文翻译：

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通过社会学习寻找景观或自然资源管理的共享解决方案：阿尔卑斯地区的准实验评估

 语境

景观管理决策的实施常常受到阻碍，因为参与者对当前问题的看法存在分歧。这些冲突可以用问题框架的概念来解释，该概念认为行动者的问题视角是由他们的利益决定的。最近的文献表明，通过参与者之间的协商过程进行社会学习可以为复杂的景观管理冲突提供共同的解决方案。

 方法

为了检验这些假设，使用准实验干预研究设计对瑞士阿尔卑斯地区水资源综合管理的参与过程进行了系统评估。通过定性访谈和标准化问卷，在参与过程之前和之后引出了相关参与者的问题观点。此外，在参与过程之后，向地区居民样本（N = 2000）发送了标准化调查，以衡量参与者的社会学习向更广泛公众的传播。

 结果

数据分析提供了系统的证据，表明参与过程中参与者的问题观点在干预前存在很大差异，但在参与过程中已经发生了融合。此外，它还根据行动者对参与性区域规划的态度来确定行动者的社会学习对更广泛公众的扩散效应。

 结论

研究结果证实了通过审议过程进行社会学习的预期机制，并证明它是成功实施景观管理决策的一种有前景的方法。参与者之间共同利益的催化作用表明，景观管理决策应通过区域层面的参与性综合规划来实施，这需要区域机构发挥新的战略作用。