This article discusses ways in which the South African Government and grassroots organizations envisage and implement democracy achieved since 1994 in the eld of water resources management. The focus is on the democratic, political and economic freedom and equality in resource rights for poor bl...
Schreiner, B.
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Mohapi, N.
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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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[Washing away poverty: water, democracy and gendered poverty eradication in South Africa]
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Washing away poverty: water, democracy and gendered poverty eradication in South Africa
Ribot, J.C.
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Agrawal, A.
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Larson, A.M.
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[Recentralizing while decentralizing: How national governments reappropriate forest resources]
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Recentralizing while decentralizing: How national governments reappropriate forest resources
This chapter reviews the literature on natural resource decentralization with an emphasis on forests in developing countries. This literature can be located at the intersection between discussions of good governance and democracy, development, and poverty alleviation, on the one hand, and common ...
Larson, A.M.
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[Desentralisasi demokratis dalam sektor kehutanan: Pelajaran dari Afrika, Asia, dan Amerika Latin]
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Desentralisasi demokratis dalam sektor kehutanan: Pelajaran dari Afrika, Asia, dan Amerika Latin
Capistrano, D.
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[Forest governance and decentralization in Africa: issues and emergimg trends]
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Forest governance and decentralization in Africa: issues and emergimg trends
Diaw, M.C.
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[Elusive meanings: decentralization, conservation and local democracy]
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Elusive meanings: decentralization, conservation and local democracy
Can democratic processes favour conservation outcomes in the tropics? This study focuses on local viewpoints within a forested landscape of high conservation significance in East Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Stakeholders received posters displaying results from a previous study; these posters ...
Padmanaba, M.
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Sheil, Douglas
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[Finding and promoting a local conservation consensus in a globally important tropical forest landscape]
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Finding and promoting a local conservation consensus in a globally important tropical forest landscape
Forestry decision-making is still largely centralised in Guatemala. Nevertheless, elected municipal governments can now play a key role in local forest management. These local governments, with some exceptions, are the principal local institutions empowered to participate in natural resource auth...
Larson, A.M.
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[Indigenous Peoples, Representation and Citizenship in Guatemalan Forestry]
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Indigenous Peoples, Representation and Citizenship in Guatemalan Forestry
This work presents, for first time, an opportunity of knowing the process of the formulation of the new Forestry Law in Bolivia, approved in July 1996. The formulation of this law was a long and difficult social process, full of conflicts between the different actors involved and delays. The book...
Lizarraga, I. P.
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Helbingen, A. B.
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[El proceso social de formulacion de la ley forestal de Bolivia de 1996]
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El proceso social de formulacion de la ley forestal de Bolivia de 1996
For hundreds of millions of people, biodiversity is about eating, staying healthy, and finding shelter. Meeting these people’s basic needs should receive greater priority in the conservation agenda.Wild and semi-wild plants and animals contribute significantly to nutrition, health care, income, a...
Kaimowitz, D.
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Sheil, Douglas
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[Conserving what and for whom? why conservation should help meet basic human needs in the tropics]
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Conserving what and for whom? why conservation should help meet basic human needs in the tropics