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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.Campbell, Bruce M.[Devolution in natural resource management: institutional arrangements and power shifts: a synthesis of case studies from southern Africa]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.Jeffrey, S.Kozanayi, W.Luckert, M.Mutamba, M.Zindi, C.[Household livelihoods in semi-arid regions: options and constraints]Household livelihoods in semi-arid regions: options and constraints

This document is about rural development in Africa. It is a preliminary statement of lessons learned from more than 20 years of natural resource-based development in rural Africa. Twenty years ago, natural resource management programs took a predominantly technical approach and followed by econom...


United States Agency for International Development[Nature, wealth, and power: emerging best practice for revitalizing rural Africa]Nature, wealth, and power: emerging best practice for revitalizing rural Africa

The last decade has seen profound overhauls of governance in many tropical countries. Countries have adopted new economic policies, very much influenced by free-market thinking, and a reduced regulatory role of the state and its subsidiaries. This coincided with widespread decentralization of gov...


Jong, W. deBecker, M.Ruiz, S.Gottwald, C.[The impact of decentralised forest governance: a case study from Bolivia]The impact of decentralised forest governance: a case study from Bolivia

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.Campbell, Bruce M.Shackleton, S.Edmunds, D.Shanley, P.[Central control of local resource management: the impacts of devolution]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. duWalker, B.H.Campbell, Bruce M.[Conserving tropical nature: current challenges for ecologists]Conserving tropical nature: current challenges for ecologists

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
Cahyat, A.Iranon, B.Edna, B.Dalip, D.Tiaka, D.HaripuddinTugiono, K.Himang, M.G.D.Muksin, S.SupiansyahGoenner, C.[Profil kampung-kampung di Kabupaten Kutai Barat: kondisi sosial ekonomi kampung-kampung]Profil kampung-kampung di Kabupaten Kutai Barat: kondisi sosial ekonomi kampung-kampung

Forest exploitation has been the main economic driver in the northern Bolivian Amazon. The country enacted changes in legislation and policies affecting natural resource governance. These changes increase the control of the forestry sector by rural communities. Conflicts characterize these change...


Jong, W. deRuiz, S.Becker, M.[Conflicts and communal forest management in northern Bolivia]Conflicts and communal forest management in northern Bolivia
Yasmi, Y.Schanz, H.Salim, A.[Manifestation of conflict escalation in natural resource management]Manifestation of conflict escalation in natural resource management

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