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
Environment and development practitioners increasingly are interested in identifying methods, institutional arrangements and policy environments that promote negotiations among natural resource stakeholders leading to collective action and, it is hoped, sustainable resource management. Yet the im...
The desire for research to be policy relevant has caused many social science studies to have “engineering” dimensions. With respect to the engineering of property rights, economic approaches indicate that we require knowledge regarding the makeup of current property rights structures, how changes...
Luckert, M.A.
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[Can we be engineers of property rights to natural resources? some evidence of difficulties from the rural areas of Zimbabwe]
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Can we be engineers of property rights to natural resources? some evidence of difficulties from the rural areas of Zimbabwe
Recent studies have shown that although swidden agriculture contributes to tropical deforestation in Latin America, swidden farmers also regenerate significant areas of secondary forests on their farms as part of the following process. This paper discusses the opportunities and constraints to far...
Smith, J.
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Finegan, B.
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Sabogal, C.
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Gonçalves-Ferreira, M.D.S.
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Siles Gonzales, G.
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Kop, P. van de
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Díaz Barba, A.
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[Management of secondary forests in colonist swidden agriculture in Peru, Brazil and Nicaragua]
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Management of secondary forests in colonist swidden agriculture in Peru, Brazil and Nicaragua
The economic importance of Gaharu is assessed in three villages on the Bahau River in north-central Borneo to gain insights about the incentives for harvesting and management of valuable non-timber forest product. Three indicators of economic value-level and proportion of income, returns to labor...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Incentives for collecting gaharu (fungal-infected wood of Aquilaria SPP, Thymelaeaceae) in East Kalimantan]
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Incentives for collecting gaharu (fungal-infected wood of Aquilaria SPP, Thymelaeaceae) in East Kalimantan
This practice of community based conservation is discussed, specially social issues which are firmly embedded in the management of forest resources by communities, but too often overlooked. Good management requires not only technical expertise, but include wide social acceptance. Useful analytica...
Accommodating multiple interests involves integrating across-highly stratified societies. Integral local development is a means of integrating across these interests through locally accountable representative authorities entrusted with public powers. It is integral to the local community because ...
Ribot, J.C.
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[Integral local development: 'accommodating multiple interests' through entrustment and accountable representation]
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Integral local development: 'accommodating multiple interests' through entrustment and accountable representation
This CD is a data archive for an integrated natural resource management research programme in Southern Zimbabwe. It has been produced as an initiative to explore knowledge management in the Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM). It has a wide range of data types available to stakeholders ...
Sampurna, Y.
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Heist, M. van
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Chandra, R.
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Agustian, I.
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Hendrik
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Yuzar, Y.
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[Water, woodlands, livelihoods and institutions Romwe and Mutangi in Southern Zimbabwe: data archive 2002]
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Water, woodlands, livelihoods and institutions Romwe and Mutangi in Southern Zimbabwe: data archive 2002
Both decentralization and natural resource management literature suggest that natural resources could benefit from the redistribution of centralized management authority. Yet, neither has sufficiently examined the processes already underway in numerous developing countries to decentralize resourc...
Larson, A.M.
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[Natural resources and decentralization in Nicaragua: are local government up to the job?]
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Natural resources and decentralization in Nicaragua: are local government up to the job?
Participatory modelling can be a useful process to encourage critical examination of livelihood options and foster sustainable natural resource use through enhanced social learning, collective action and mobilization. The broom-grass group in the Mafungautsi forest reserve serves as a case study ...
Standa-Gunda, W.
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Mutimukuru, T.
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Nyirenda, R.
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Prabhu, R.
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Haggith, M.
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Vanclay, J.K.
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[Participatory modelling to enhance social learning, collective action and mobilization among users of the Mafungautsi forest, Zimbabwe]
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Participatory modelling to enhance social learning, collective action and mobilization among users of the Mafungautsi forest, Zimbabwe