Minnesota River Restoration (Part 2) Richard Currie Smith
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The document discusses different cultural maps or frameworks held by stakeholders in the Minnesota River Basin (MRB). It identifies four main cultural maps: non-government utilitarian, non-government ecological, government pragmatic, and government environmental. It argues that ecological restoration requires re-framing stakeholders' perspectives to recognize humans as embedded within the environment. Reframing occurs through communication between stakeholders in an ecological restoration network. Governor Carlson's 1992 challenge created a bifurcation point that led to new forms of stakeholder cooperation.
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- Gathered data in a variety of ways, ethnographic style of informal and formal interviews was predominant method. Anthropological notion that “there are just choices and outcomes, not good and bad people or ways of doing things” served my efforts well.