This paper evaluates the impacts of natural resource devolution policies in several Asian and southern African countries from the perspective of local people. Devolution outcomes are assessed in terms of who has greater benefits and decision-making authority. We also examine the factors that have...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Shackleton, S.
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Edmunds, D.
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Shanley, P.
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[Central control of local resource management: the impacts of devolution]
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Central control of local resource management: the impacts of devolution
Tropical biodiversity continues to erode unabated, which calls for ecologists to address the problem directly, placing less reliance on indirect interventions, such as community-based development schemes. Ecologists must become more assertive in providing scientifically formulated and adaptively ...
Toit, J.T. du
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Walker, B.H.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Conserving tropical nature: current challenges for ecologists]
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Conserving tropical nature: current challenges for ecologists
Assessing the performance of management is central to natural resource management, in terms of improving the efficiency of interventions in an adaptive-learning cycle. This is not simple, given that such systems generally have multiple scales of interaction and response; high frequency of non-lin...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Frost, P.
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Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Cunningham, A.B.
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Prabhu, R.
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[Assessing the performance of natural resource systems]
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Assessing the performance of natural resource systems
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
This paper places forestry in the larger context of rural development and therefore in the current debates on poverty and inequality. While Africa has high levels of natural and human capital it is the poorest and most unequal region in the world. In order for natural assets to contribute to envi...
Anderson, J.
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Benjamin, C.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Tiveau, D.
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[Forests, poverty and equity in Africa: new perspectives on policy and practice]
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Forests, poverty and equity in Africa: new perspectives on policy and practice
Conservation organizations are increasingly turning to landscape approaches to achieve a balance between conservation and development goals. We use six case studies in Africa and Asia to explore the role of participatory modeling with stakeholders as one of the steps towards implementing a landsc...
Sandker, M.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Ruiz Perez, M.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Cowling, R.M.
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Kassa, H.
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Knight, A.
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[The role of participatory modeling in landscape approaches to reconcile conservation and development]
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The role of participatory modeling in landscape approaches to reconcile conservation and development
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Hagmann, J.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Stroud, Ann
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Thomas, R.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[What kind of research and development is needed for natural resource management?]
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What kind of research and development is needed for natural resource management?
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
Integrated natural resource management (INRM) helps resource users, managers, and others to manage resources sustainably by considering, reconciling, and synergizing their various interests and activities. Although many social and environmental problems have to be tackled at a range of scales to ...
Frost, P.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Medina, G.
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Usongo, L.
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[Landscape-scale approaches for integrated natural resource management in tropical forest landscapes]
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Landscape-scale approaches for integrated natural resource management in tropical forest landscapes