1209 | 130 | Latent, collaborative, or escalated conflict? Determining causal pathways that lead to different conflict dynamics in land use conflicts through crisp-set QCA | Meike Fienitz, Rosemarie Siebert
Land use conflicts can present a tedious burden to land management processes, but they also fulfill important social functions. Instead of trying to avoid all conflicts, we thus need to learn how to handle conflicts in ways that diminish their negative impacts and enhance their positive functions. However, a comprehensive understanding of the causes of different dynamics in land use conflicts is presently missing. Thus, the aim of this paper is to explore the configurations of conditions that explain latent, collaborative, and escalated dynamics in land use conflicts. To achieve this, we apply crisp-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA) to 37 land use conflicts in the city of Cottbus and the surrounding Spree-Neiße administrative district in the East of Germany. We detect six causal pathways: two each that explain latent, collaborative, and escalated outcomes. Moreover, willingness to cooperate is identified as a necessary condition for collaborative conflicts and sufficient resources as necessary for escalation. These results provide a first step in developing a theoretical explanation of land use conflicts’ dynamics, but they are also of practical relevance, informing policy-makers, planners, and land-users how to foster collaborative dynamics in land use conflicts.
Meike Fienitz, Rosemarie Siebert
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany
ID Abstract: 130