This presents three
analytical foci. First, who are the actors standing to intervene in the
operationalization of the policy? Second, how are conservation
goals, authenticity criteria or principles of benefit distribution
defined? Who and how collaborates in the concrete construction of
a community-based development project, which groups are
directly affected and who are intentionally excluded? By regarding
policy design as a phenomenon in the becoming (that is, subjected
to different views, interests and perspectives), the social construction
perspective may reveal how different local actors and
power constellations are perceived and stereotyped within specific