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dc.contributor.advisorBuckley, Ralf
dc.contributor.authorGurung, Hum Bahadur
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-23T02:29:09Z
dc.date.available2018-01-23T02:29:09Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.doi10.25904/1912/1469
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/366354
dc.description.abstractThe grounded theory of Fusioning was developed during a study of participatory governance in community-based protected area management in Nepal. This study reveals that local communities have successfully conserved biodiversity in the Annapurna Conservation Area in Nepal by embedding and fusing traditional, indigenous and contemporary governance principles and values to achieve internationally recognised conservation goals. This embedding and fusioning was supported by government, national and international non-governmental organisations. Local communities were empowered with regard to livelihood needs, biodiversity conservation and sustainable community development practices and processes. The significant innovation in the theory of fusioning was the indigenising of a number of conservation and development processes to generate community trust and ownership. This achieved what has been called fusion governance. Traditional and indigenous informal institutions and their resource management practices were driving forces in governing the contemporary conservation practices. This research was designed within the interpretive social science paradigm. Consistent with this paradigm, a qualitative research methodology was employed, drawing on the traditions of interpretivism and phenomenology. The study reflected a strong axiological positioning with regard to developing a Nepali methodology. Findings presented in this study are based on five sets of empirical material which are: oral history interviews, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, documentary materials and chalphal, discussion forums which were embedded within indigenous epistemological perspectives and interpreted using grounded theory. Grounded theory was used to interpret the empirical materials and to generate the theory of fusioning. Fusioning explains the social process of local community engagement in conservation and development in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal. Community-based protected area management is significant to local communities, as well as national and international conservation agencies. This research has also applied eastern, specifically Nepali methodological perspectives which serve to complement western-based methodologies and methods. Further, the practice of fusioning has contributed to local sustainability through effective protected area management in a way which could be applied elsewhere in Nepal and worldwide.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherGriffith University
dc.publisher.placeBrisbane
dc.rights.copyrightThe author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
dc.subject.keywordsNepal
dc.subject.keywordsAnnapurna Conservation Area
dc.subject.keywordsfusioning
dc.subject.keywordsparticipatory government
dc.subject.keywordstheory of participatory government
dc.subject.keywordsparticipatory governance
dc.subject.keywordstheory of participatory governance
dc.subject.keywordstraditional governance
dc.subject.keywordsindigenous governance
dc.subject.keywordscontemporary governance
dc.subject.keywordsgrounded theorycommunity-based protected area management
dc.titleFusioning: A Grounded Theory of Participatory Governance in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal
dc.typeGriffith thesis
gro.facultyScience, Environment, Engineering and Technology
gro.rights.copyrightThe author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
dc.contributor.otheradvisorCastley, Guy
dc.contributor.otheradvisorJennings, Gayle
dc.rights.accessRightsPublic
gro.identifier.gurtIDgu1315785815243
gro.identifier.ADTnumberadt-QGU20100623.084140
gro.source.ADTshelfnoADT0748
gro.source.GURTshelfnoGURT
gro.thesis.degreelevelThesis (PhD Doctorate)
gro.thesis.degreeprogramDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
gro.departmentSchool of Environment
gro.griffith.authorGurung, Hum B.


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