The "paradigm shift" in natural resource management away from state-centred control toward community-based approaches in which local people play a much more active role is situated within the theoretical framework seeking to empower local communities through decentralization policies. This study ...
Nemarundwe, N.
,
[Social charters and organisation for access to woodlands: institutional implications for devolving responsibilities for resource management to the local level in Chivi District, Zimbabwe]
,
Social charters and organisation for access to woodlands: institutional implications for devolving responsibilities for resource management to the local level in Chivi District, Zimbabwe
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.
,
Jong, W. de
,
Luckert, M.
,
Mandondo, A.
,
Matose, F.
,
Nemarundwe, N.
,
[Can common property resource system work in Zimbabwe?]
,
Can common property resource system work in Zimbabwe?
A dynamic ecological model, calibrated with field data from the communal lands of southern Zimbabwe where Shangaaan and Ndebele people live, shows the ilala palm, Hyphaene petersiana, to be resilient to a wide range of harvesting regimes. The degree of use determines the plant population structur...
Foote, A.L.
,
Krogman, N.T.
,
Grundy, I.M.
,
Nemarundwe, N.
,
Campbell, Bruce M.
,
Gambiza, J.
,
Gibbs, L.
,
[Ilala palm (Hyphaene petersiana) use in southern Zimbabwe: social and ecological factors influencing sustainability]
,
Ilala palm (Hyphaene petersiana) use in southern Zimbabwe: social and ecological factors influencing sustainability
This paper reports on action research that evaluated local perceptions and knowledge of indigenous tree planting and management in the Romwe catchment, Chivi district, southern of Zimbabwe. The species tested were the overexploited Afzelia quanzensis, important for timber and carvings of sculptur...
Gerhardt, K.
,
Nemarundwe, N.
,
[Participatory planting and management of indigenous trees: lessons from Chivi district, Zimbabwe]
,
Participatory planting and management of indigenous trees: lessons from Chivi district, Zimbabwe
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.
,
Mandondo, A.
,
Nemarundwe, N.
,
Sithole, B.
,
Jong, W. de
,
Luckert, M.
,
Matose, F.
,
[Challenges to proponents of common property resource system: despairing voices from the social forests of Zimbabwe]
,
Challenges to proponents of common property resource system: despairing voices from the social forests of Zimbabwe