Conflict and Cooperation in Participating Natural Resource Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Roger Jeffery, Bhaskar Vira

      Pages 1-15

3. Where Local Conflicts over Resource Use Make Participation Unlikely

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Conflict Management and Mobility among Pastoralists in Karamoja, Uganda

      • Maryam Niamir-Fuller

      Pages 19-38

   3. The Social Context of Environmental Education: The Case of the Amboseli Ecosystem, Kajiado, Kenya

      • Ngeta Kabiri

      Pages 39-59

4. Local-Level Projects Attempting to Overcome Unsupportive National Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Addressing Livelihood Issues in Conservation-oriented Projects: A Case Study of Pulicat Lake, Tamil Nadu, India

      • Devaki Panini

      Pages 63-74

   3. Land Husbandry for Sustainable Agricultural Development in a Subsistence Farming Area of Malawi: Farmer Adoption of Introduced Techniques

      • Max Kelly

      Pages 75-95

5. Learning from Success: Where National Policies are Supportive, but Participative Action is Novel

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Local Management of Sahelian Forests

      • Paul Kerkhof

      Pages 99-112

   3. CAMPFIRE: Tonga Cosmovision and Indigenous Knowledge

      • Backson Sibanda

      Pages 113-128

   4. Problems of Intra- and Inter-group Equity in Community Forestry: Evidence from the Terai Region of Nepal

      • Rabindra Nath Chakraborty

      Pages 129-149

   5. Benefits to Villagers in Maharashtra, India, from Conjunctive Use of Water Resources

      • Frank Simpson, Girish Sohani

      Pages 150-168

6. Learning from Success: Supportive National Policies and Local Initiatives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Creating New Knowledge for Soil and Water Conservation in Bolivia

      • Anna Lawrence

      Pages 171-188

   3. Devolution of Decision-making: Lessons from Community Forest Management at the Kilum–Ijim Forest Project, Cameroon

      • David Thomas, Anne Gardner, John DeMarco

      Pages 189-203

   4. Changing Natural Resource Research and Development Capability: Whither Social Capital?

      • Stephen Biggs, Harriet Matsaert, Adrienne Martin

      Pages 204-226

7. Back Matter

   Pages 227-246

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Over the past one hundred years in particular, there has been a steady process by which natural resources (such as ground-water, forests, fishing grounds and grazing land) have been increasingly managed by centralised institutions. Governments and other national agencies have argued that this promotes efficiency, equity, and other wide national goals. Recently this orthodoxy has been challenged by rising numbers of experiments that show how centralised management tends to fail. Global, national and local goals are more likely to be met, at lower cost and with other benefits (such as promoting better democratic institutions) by involving local populations in collaborative management agreements. This volume, based on detailed case studies from around the world, subjects some of these experiments to critical study, and suggests limits to the participative approach as well as ways it can be improved and made suitable for new contexts.

• development
• ecosystem
• environment
• environmental education
• research
• soil
• natural resources and energy economics

• University of Edinburgh, UK

  Roger Jeffery

• Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, USA

  Bhaskar Vira

STEPHEN BIGGS Senior Lecturer, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK RABINDRA NATH CHAKRABORTY German Development Institute, Berlin JOHN DE MARCO BirdLife International, Project Manager, Ijim Mountain Forest Project ANNE GARDNER BirdLife International, Ijim Mountain Forest Project NGETA KABIRI Ph.D. Student, Political Science Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill MAX KELLY Ph.D. Student, School of Geography, Kingston University PAUL KERKHOF Research and Development Worker specialised on Forest Resources ANNA LAWRENCE Senior Research Associate, Centre for Natural Resources and Development, Green College, University of Oxford HARRIET MATSAERT Social Anthropologist, Harare ADRIENNE MARTIN Social Development Group, Natural Resource Institute, University of Greenwich, Chatham, Kent MARYAM NIAMIR-FULLER Land Degradation Advisor and Task Manager, Biodiversity Conservation, GEF/UNDP DEVAKI PANINI Lawyer and Specialist in Environmental Law BACKSON SIBANDA Chief of Evaluation, United Nations Environment Programme FRANK SIMPSON GIRISH SOHANI DAVID THOMAS BirdLife International, Projects and Project Manager

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