Actor-center framing on measuring land use conflict visibility

Area of Science:

• Environmental Science
• Sociology
• Political Science

Background:

• Current land use conflict assessments lack depth and quantitative measures for conflict visibility.
• Existing literature struggles to quantify the degree of conflict visibility between different actors.

Purpose of the Study:

• To establish a novel technique for measuring the degree of latent and manifest land use conflicts.
• To provide a framework for deeper exploration of tensions between local communities and land use government institutions.
• To enhance practitioners' understanding of conflict visibility for better intervention strategies.

Main Methods:

• Utilizing an actor-centered framing approach to analyze conflict dynamics.
• Juxtaposing state and local community actors based on their interests and defense mechanisms.
• Measuring the deployment of policy instruments, resource mobilization, and advocacy efforts by different actors.

Main Results:

• Developed a heuristic approach to measure the gradation of interaction between conflicted actors.
• Identified key indicators for assessing latent and manifest conflict visibility.
• Proposed a framework for analyzing power dynamics between state and community actors in land use disputes.

Conclusions:

• The proposed framework offers a novel way to understand and quantify land use conflict visibility.
• Practitioners can use this method to develop more effective conflict management and intervention strategies.
• Generated hypotheses for future research on actor strategies in land use conflict management.