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Integrating local knowledge about environmental and socioeconomic circumstances is necessary in order for development efforts to be responsive to local realities and needs. However, knowledge-integration in development planning is not a straightforward process. Drawing on philosophical theory, in this paper, I identify and discuss four challenges to knowledge integration and how they can be overcome. First, practical challenges refer to the many feasibility constraints that limit inclusion of local communities, including lack of time and financial resources as well as the uncertainty and availability of reliable data. Second, normative challenges refer to the differences in normative status between different stakeholders as a result of existing power structures, socioeconomic inequalities, and marginalization of minority groups and which affect the ability of these groups to express their knowledge. Third, epistemic challenges refer to differences in levels and kinds of knowledge that different stakeholders possess and which complicate the successful communication of knowledge between stakeholders. Lastly, ontological challenges refer to the extent to which the knowledge of differe

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Author

Morten Fibieger Byskov

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences