To meet the challenges of poverty and environmental sustainability, a more integrated approach to research is required. Such an approach must embrace the complexity of systems and redirect research towards the greater inclusion of issues such as participatory approaches, multi-scale analysis and ...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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[Integrated natural resource management: linking productivity, the environment and development]
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Integrated natural resource management: linking productivity, the environment and development
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
The overall aim of this study was to explore what the development community can do, or facilitate, to significantly improve livelihoods in semi-arid systems.The authors based their analysis on two case-study sites in the communal lands of southern Zimbabwe. The main tool was a detailed livelihood...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Jeffrey, S.
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Kozanayi, W.
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Luckert, M.
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Mutamba, M.
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Zindi, C.
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[Household livelihoods in semi-arid regions: options and constraints]
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Household livelihoods in semi-arid regions: options and constraints
This report consists of a series of individual country papers prepared for a study on devolution, community empowerment and power relations in community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in the SADC region. Case studies were undertaken during 1999 in eight southeastern/eastern African cou...
Shackleton, S.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Empowering communities to manage natural resources: case studies from Southern Africa]
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Empowering communities to manage natural resources: case studies from Southern Africa
This book attempts to redefine roles of government agencies, development assistance programmes and science in achieving a more sustainable future of rural landscapes in tropical developing countries. Science faces major challenges in tackling the inter-linked problems of poverty and environmental...
Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[The science of sustainable development: local livelihoods and the global environment]
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The science of sustainable development: local livelihoods and the global environment
This booklet is directed towards those who are implementing natural resource management (NRM) projects, undertaking research on NRM, or setting policies for NRM. It is focused on the best ways to improve the effectiveness of research and development (R&D) in NRM, so that livelihood and environmen...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Hagmann, J.
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Stroud, Ann
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Thomas, R.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Navigating amidst complexity: guide to implementing effective research and development to improve livelihoods and the environment]
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Navigating amidst complexity: guide to implementing effective research and development to improve livelihoods and the environment