Power Equalizing

Dyann Ross

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_187-1

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Power Equalizing

Dyann Ross

Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_187-1

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Human Geography

accountability to impacted stakeholders

collaboration

critical social responsibility

dialogue

equality

nonexploitative power

social justice

Power is a complex and contested concept that is notoriously difficult to define. It relates to the ability to influence people or a situation. This ability to influence can involve a continuum of varying degrees of pressure to obtain compliance or agreement, from persuasion through force - either threatened, physical, or legal (Lukes 1974). Power can be exercised directly in interpersonal interactions and indirectly through extra local relations of ruling of the power elites. In the context of sustainable development, power dynamics are at the center of struggles over the rights and interests of businesses, governments, groups, communities, and ecosystems. There is no straightforward fit between these stakeholder's often incompatible rights and interests.

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Title: Power Equalizing
Authors: Dyann Ross (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - School of Social Sciences
Contributors: Samuel Idowu (Editor)
Rene Schmidpeter (Editor)
Nicholas Capaldi (Editor)
Liangrong Zu (Editor)
Mara Del Baldo (Editor)
Rute Abreu (Editor)
Publication details: Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Date published: 2020
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_187-1; 10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450977502621
Output Type: Encyclopedia entry

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