Reconciling east-african wetland conservation with human needs: managing uncertainties in environmental policy design

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dc.contributor.authorLangensiepen, Matthias
dc.contributor.authorOpiyo, Erick Omwandho
dc.contributor.authorKaudia, Alice A
dc.contributor.authorRugege, Denis
dc.contributor.authorKyambadde, Richard
dc.contributor.authorAkotsi, Erick
dc.contributor.authorNingu, Julius K
dc.contributor.authorMunyazikwiye, Faustin
dc.contributor.authorNgaboyamahina, Theogene
dc.contributor.authorUrassa, Justin K
dc.contributor.authorUgen, Michael
dc.contributor.authorOyieke, Dieudonné Sebashongore Helida
dc.contributor.authorMisana, Salome
dc.contributor.authorKammesheidt, Ludwig
dc.contributor.authorBecker, Mathias
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-04T07:34:22Z
dc.date.available2023-08-04T07:34:22Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionJournal articleen_US
dc.description.abstractRapidly developing societies in East-Africa impose increasing pressures on wetlands due to rising food demand and degradation of upland soils. Reconciling wetland conservation with human needs for food and energy is therefore becoming an increasing contentious issue. Stakeholders and actor coalitions generate and apply a great variety of meanings, values, and interests when interacting with wetlands which are hardly predictable. Wetland policy-making is hence fraught with uncertainties which need to be managed for finding solutions to this problem. Based on experiences of a collaborative wetland research in East-Africa we developed a new wetland policy process framework which promotes social deliberation and reconciliation of plural wetland values to reduce these uncertainties. A new cognitive-driven information design (CDID) method has been developed to assist wetland policy-analysts in achieving these aims and also to overcome limitations of prescriptive decision-making. The method employs information and communication technologies to analyze, integrate and visualize complex socio-ecological wetland information for developing policy scenarios. It is applied at all stages of the wetland policy process including agenda setting, identification of plural wetland values, establishment of decision-scenarios, social deliberation during policy formulation, governmental decision-taking, policy implementation and evaluation. A three-stage implementation process is recommended.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLangensiepen, M., Opiyo, E.O., Kaudia, A.A. et al. Reconciling East-African Wetland Conservation with Human Needs: Managing Uncertainties in Environmental Policy Design. Wetlands 43, 36 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-023-01679-2en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5527
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlandsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWetlands (2023) 43:36;
dc.subjectWetland useen_US
dc.subjectConservationen_US
dc.subjectEcosystem Servicesen_US
dc.subjectPlural Valuationen_US
dc.subjectDecision-makingen_US
dc.subjectPolicy process theoryen_US
dc.titleReconciling east-african wetland conservation with human needs: managing uncertainties in environmental policy designen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-023-01679-2en_US

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