Wiesmann Urs

Negotiating sustainable regional development - the relevance of meaningful spaces in times of change

Project Number: CH-3770

Project Type:	Dissertation
Project Duration:	06/01/2005 - 05/30/2009 project completed
Funding Source:	DEZA ,
Project Leader:	Prof. Urs Wiesmann Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) Universität Bern Mittelstrasse 43 3012 Bern Phone: +41 (0) 31 631 88 69 ; +41 (0) 31 631 88 22 e-Mail: urs.wiesmann(at)cde.unibe.ch http://www.cde.unibe.ch

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Research Areas:

Living Space

Disciplines:

Legal and Social sciences, Economics
Social geography and Ecology

Keywords:
actors, negotiating processes, social constructivism, UNESO Wolrd Heritage Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Sukuluk-Region (Kyrgyz Republic)

Abstract:
The thesis has the overall objective of contributing to an improved understanding of how the ecological dimension becomes manifest in the negotiation of sustainable regional development, how meanings about an issue under negotiation are constructed, and whose ascribed meanings are decisive in concretising a way forward.
The research adopts an actor oriented perspective that places the actors, their actions, and their way of making the world meaningful in the centre of scientific interest. Related to this, it refers to social constructivism and thus advances the view that meaning is not inherent to objects but ascribed to them. The research approach is iterative, which means that the results obtained in one step are used as a basis for devising the research questions of the next step. As a consequence of this, the aim of gaining a deepened understanding of ongoing negotiation processes led to the selection of two case studies, the Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn World Heritage Site region in Switzerland and the Sokuluk region in the Kyrgyz Republic. Since the research questions focus on social realities, processes, and meanings, the empirical work is to a large extent based on qualitative data.



URL: http://www.north-south.unibe.ch/content.php/page/id/56

Publications:
Liechti, Karina. 2008. Negotiating sustainable regional development – the relevance of meaningful spaces in times of change. PhD Thesis, Geographisches Institut, Universität Bern.



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