ORCID
- Kelly, Claire: 0000-0002-3809-225X
- Gilvear, David: 0000-0003-3859-8290
- Blake, Will: 0000-0001-9447-1361
Abstract
Achieving change to address soil erosion has been a global yet elusive goal for decades. Efforts to implement effective solutions have often fallen short due to a lack of sustained, context-appropriate and multi-disciplinary engagement with the problem. Issues include prevalence of short-term funding for ‘quick-fix’ solutions; a lack of nuanced understandings of institutional, socio-economic or cultural drivers of erosion problems; little community engagement in design and testing solutions; and, critically, a lack of traction in integrating locally designed solutions into policy and institutional processes. This paper focusses on the latter issue of local action for policy integration, drawing on experiences from a Tanzanian context to highlight the practical and institutional disjuncts that exist; and the governance challenges that can hamper efforts to address and build resilience to soil erosion. By understanding context-specific governance processes, and joining them with realistic, locally designed actions, positive change has occurred, strengthening local-regional resilience to complex and seemingly intractable soil erosion challenges.
DOI
10.3390/land9100352
Publication Date
2020-09-25
Publication Title
Land
Volume
9
Issue
10
First Page
352
Last Page
352
Embargo Period
2020-10-03
Organisational Unit
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Recommended Citation
Kelly, C., Wynants, M., Munishi, L., Nasseri, M., Patrick, A., Mtei, K., Mkilema, F., Rabinovich, A., Gilvear, D., Wilson, G., Blake, W., & Ndakidemi, P. (2020) '‘Mind the Gap’: Reconnecting Local Actions and Multi-Level Policies to Bridge the Governance Gap. An Example of Soil Erosion Action from East Africa', Land, 9(10), pp. 352-352. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/land9100352
