GEOG30019 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ecotourism, Neoliberalism
6 Jun 2018
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LECTURE 12: TAKING BACK SD
Taking back SD: Cambodia Case Study
• Trying to incorporate green agriculture into rural livelihood
• Yet need to see what they want - understand decision making in context shaping the
evolution of the agricultural sector
o Need to see the framings of people involved
• Listening to what's needed, and providing methods to see if creates change
• Production-ased fraig does’t explai farers deisios
o Necessary to include a wider range of socio-economic considerations - cultural,
familial and wider economic considerations at household scale
• Need to reframe the prevailing understanding of the adoption of technologies
Overview of Subject
• Problems with SD implementation - complex rather than complicated, better thought
of as a controversy and a political fight
• About an unpleasant negotiation
• SD prole does’t hae asers - framings: marginalisation, freedoms
o Recognise the prevailing understanding of SD is dominated by economics, global
North, scientific, quantitative, neoliberal framing - that’s ho e see the orld,
supply SD as a solution
o Triple-bottom-line distracts us from ethical debates between economics, gross
profit and environmental/social sustainability
• Framings: politics/economy, NRM, science, global North/South
• Paradoxes of assumptions: disasters and marginalisation's - essential components of
current political economic system which maintains production, consumption and SD
o SD needs these to continue
• Current practices limit how we see SD proposals - how do we know what's not there
• Change in the system - participation and power
• Weakness of SD are the entry points for change
What can we do?
• Any time SD is criticised by scientific or economic uncertainty, this is not the issue
• Redistribution of wealth, a debate, will be the way forward in SD
• Debates are well trodden and need some unsettling
Taking back SD: CEDDR
• Disasters are an integral part of development, important for SD
• Development through risk management
• Challenge the prevailing way that risk management is done - change the relationship
of the emergency services and the public
• Interpersonal engagement leading to change
Neth (2008)
• Participation of local, marginalised people allows for them to improve their economic
and social lives and intervene in resource redistribution and consumption for he
betterment of their quality of life
• Environmental injustice and economic inequality in rural development occurs when
developers and planners do not pay much attention to local social structures/systems
and immediate needs of communities
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