Local bureaucrats as bricoleurs. The everyday implementation practices of county environment officers in rural Kenya

摘要: Bricolage in natural resource governance takes place through the interplay of a variety actors. This article explores practices group whose agency as bricoleurs has received little attention, namely government officers who represent state everyday management water, land, forests and other resources across rural Africa. Specifically we examine how local Environment Officers Taita Taveta County Kenya go about implementing national environmental law on ground, they interact with communities this process. As representatives “the state”, occupy an ambiguous position which are expected to implement lofty laws policies limited means complex reality. In response employ three key practices, (i) working personal networks, (ii) tailoring informal agreements, (iii) delegating public functions authority civil society. result, is large extent implemented blend formal rules arrangements, produced Officers,