In many situations commercialization of forest products is based on common pool resources; often this leads to resource depletion. This paper investigates the potential of using fiscal instruments for institutional change to improve resource management where natural products are being marketed fr...
Standa-Gunda, W.
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Bond, I.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Petheram, L.
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[Exploring woodcarving markets to determine the potential of fiscal instruments for improving woodland management: the case of woodcarving in Southern Zimbabwe]
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Exploring woodcarving markets to determine the potential of fiscal instruments for improving woodland management: the case of woodcarving in Southern Zimbabwe
South Africa, influenced by global trends towards good governance and sustainable natural resource management, has begun to adopt a participatory management approach to state-owned indigenous forests. This study, in a remote communal area and State Forest in the Eastern Cape, sought to understand...
Grundy, I.M.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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White, R.M.
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Prabhu, R.
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Jensen, S.
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Ngamile, T.N.
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[Participatory forest management in conservation areas: the case of Cwebe, South Africa]
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Participatory forest management in conservation areas: the case of Cwebe, South Africa
Reasons for the decline of people’s income from any given non-timber forest product are: over-harvesting of the resource base; capturing of the business by local elite; domestication of the product; decreased demand; or manufacturing of substitutes. In all of these scenarios, income for local col...
Jong, W. de
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Schroder, J.M.
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[Sustaining incomes from non timber forest products: introduction and synthesis]
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Sustaining incomes from non timber forest products: introduction and synthesis
This paper use a conceptual box-and-arrow model for understanding woodland use in Zimbabwe in the context of the complex ecological-social-economic system of which it is part. Central themes within the model are: the policy framework; local institutions; land pressures; rural-urban relationships;...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Frost, P.
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Goebel, A.
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Standa-Gunda, W.
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Mukamuri, B.
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Veenan, M.
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[A conceptual model of woodland use and change in Zimbabwe]
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A conceptual model of woodland use and change in Zimbabwe
There has been a move to decentralize natural resource management (NRM) throughout southern Africa but this has taken many forms, resulting in different organizational structures. Fourteen case studies from eight countries can be classed into four types: district-level organizations, village orga...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Shackleton, S.
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[Organizing for community-based natural resources management]
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Organizing for community-based natural resources management
Common property resource (CPR) management approaches are now thought to provide a viable alternative to natural resource management. This article contains result of the investigations on common property issues for woodlands in communal areas in Zimbabwe. It reveals numerous cases showing a breakd...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Jong, W. de
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Luckert, M.
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Mandondo, A.
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Matose, F.
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Nemarundwe, N.
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[Can common property resource system work in Zimbabwe?]
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Can common property resource system work in Zimbabwe?
Although tree planting initiatives by the state began by the end of the nineteenth century, on-farm tree planting has not been widespread, particularly on plots outside homesteads. Farmers particularly in central and northern Ethiopia are limited to growing trees mainly at homesteads indicating t...
Kassa, H.
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Bekele, M.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Reading the landscape past -update: explaining the lack of on-farm tree planting in Ethiopia]
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Reading the landscape past -update: explaining the lack of on-farm tree planting in Ethiopia
There is a fair degree of misplaced optimism about common property resource (CPR) management. In investigating common property issues for woodlands in communal areas in Zimbabwe, there are numerous case studies showing a breakdown of local institutions for CPR management, and the lack of any emer...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Mandondo, A.
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Nemarundwe, N.
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Sithole, B.
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Jong, W. de
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Luckert, M.
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Matose, F.
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[Challenges to proponents of common property resource system: despairing voices from the social forests of Zimbabwe]
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Challenges to proponents of common property resource system: despairing voices from the social forests of Zimbabwe
Throughout Southern Africa there has been a move to decentralize natural resource management (NRM). Decentralization has taken many forms, resulting in different organizational structures for NRM. Fourteen case studies from eight countries can be classed into four types, depending on the key orga...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Shackleton, S.
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[The organizational structures for community-based natural resources management in Southern Africa]
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The organizational structures for community-based natural resources management in Southern Africa
The sustainability of regional development can be usefully explored through several different lenses. In situations in which uncertainties and change are key features of the ecological landscape and social organization, critical factors for sustainability are resilience, the capacity to cope and ...
Lebel, L.
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Anderies, J.M.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Folke, C.
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Hatfield-Dodds, S.
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Hughes, T.P.
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Wilson, J.
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[Governance and the capacity to manage resilience in regional social-ecological systems]
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Governance and the capacity to manage resilience in regional social-ecological systems