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
Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Managing multiple and common-property resources, case 8: governance of common-property resources]
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Managing multiple and common-property resources, case 8: governance of common-property resources
The study provides a comparative analysis of the devolution and empowerment process in 14 case studies drawn from eight countries in southern Africa. Each case study examined the extent to which policy and legislation devolves significant control over decision making and benefit flows to communit...
Shackleton, S.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Devolution in natural resource management: institutional arrangements and power shifts: a synthesis of case studies from southern Africa]
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Devolution in natural resource management: institutional arrangements and power shifts: a synthesis of case studies from southern Africa
This chapter provides short description of the plant, its variety of products from its bark, the wood and seed. Further it provides a brief information on the ecology and the impact of bark harvesing by the local people and other stresses. One of the studies reported that harvesting was more prev...
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?
Mukamuri, B.B.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Kowero, G.S.
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[Local organisations and natural resource management in the face of economic hardship: a case study from Zimbabwe]
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Local organisations and natural resource management in the face of economic hardship: a case study from Zimbabwe