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
Tabora Merlo, F
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Faustino, J.
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Piedra, MA
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Gómez, M.
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Prins, C
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[Desarrollo de un modelo de fondo ambiental para el manejo y conservación de los recursos de una microcuenca de Honduras]
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Desarrollo de un modelo de fondo ambiental para el manejo y conservación de los recursos de una microcuenca de Honduras
In this study, we set out to determine whether strategies used to link farmers to markets resulted in household level livelihood and NRM impacts measured by the participation in the market and the value of sales from the markets. Farmer to market linkages have improved livelihoods in developing c...
Pali, Pamela N.
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Kaaria, Susan K.
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Delve, Robert J.
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Freyer, Bernhard
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[Can markets deliver the dual objectives of income generation and sustainability of natural resources in Uganda?]
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Can markets deliver the dual objectives of income generation and sustainability of natural resources in Uganda?
It has been suggested that African rangelands would be utilized and managed on a more sustainable and profitable basis if they were governed by co-management arrangements, with state governments defining group rights and governing inter-group interactions and local organizations governing interac...
Swallow, B.M.
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Bromley, D.W.
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[Co-management or no management: The prospects for internal governance of common property regimes through dynamic contracts]
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Co-management or no management: The prospects for internal governance of common property regimes through dynamic contracts
The increasing attention paid to local soil knowledge in recent years is the result of a greater recognition that the knowledge of people who have been interacting with their soils for long time can offer many insights about the sustainable management of tropical soils. This paper describes two a...
Barrios, E.
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Trejo Tercero, M.T.
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[Implications of local soil knowledge for integrated soil management in Latin America]
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Implications of local soil knowledge for integrated soil management in Latin America
The history of internal territorialization in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, reveals the interplay between state and local concepts of territory. Both colonial and national authorities sought to divide natural resources and ethnic groups through boundary making, and local peoples have accomodated an...
Wadley, R.L.
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[Lines in the forest: internal territorialization and local accomodation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia (1865-1979)]
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Lines in the forest: internal territorialization and local accomodation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia (1865-1979)
This paper draws together evidence from a number of studies on 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 author...
Shackleton, S.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Edmunds, D.
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[Devolution and community-based natural resource management: creating space for local people to participate and benefit?]
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Devolution and community-based natural resource management: creating space for local people to participate and benefit?
Criteria and indicators (C&I) for sustainable forest management are important tools to improve the quality of forest management. In most cases they have been developed by experts, but the participation of stakeholders is essential if the C&I are to be locally relevant and practicable. We asked fo...
Pokorny, B.
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Prabhu, R.
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McDougall, C.
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Bauch, R.
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[Local stakeholders' participation in developing criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management]
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Local stakeholders' participation in developing criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management
This article argues that decentralization of natural resource management is a political process resisted by the central government due to the feared loss of power and/or economic resources to local governments. In Nicaragua, although the formal process of power transfers largely stagnated from 19...
Larson, A.M.
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[Formal decentralisation and the imperative of decentralisation 'from below': a case study of natural resource management in Nicaragua]
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Formal decentralisation and the imperative of decentralisation 'from below': a case study of natural resource management in Nicaragua
Larson, A.M.
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Ribot, J.C.
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[Democratic decentralisation through a natural resources lens: an introduction]
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Democratic decentralisation through a natural resources lens: an introduction