Abstract and Contents
Communities, Natural Resources, and Environments
Special issue of
Local Environment
David A. Sonnenfeld and Stewart Lockie, eds.
Vol. 13, No. 5, July 2008, Routledge
Abstract
Community participation in natural resource and environmental management has
enjoyed decades of widespread recognition. Participatory approaches have been
seen as ways to make scarce resources go further, and to make more people more
accountable for environmental outcomes. Viability of participatory programs has
been challenged, however, by increasing social mobility as a result of
globalisation, economic development and migration, and the impact of this
mobility on the integrity of local social networks and quality of local
knowledge; marginalisation of potential participants in sustainable natural
resource management from resource access and property rights; and limited
capacity of state institutions to develop partnership-based approaches to
natural resource management within territories where their influence is tenuous.
Contributions to this symposium address such challenges through analyses of the
experience of community-based management of forest, fishery, and groundwater
resources in a variety of sub-Saharan African, and South and East Asian
locations.
Keywords: community participation, natural resource governance,
sustainability, Africa, Asia
Guest
Editorial
Communities,
Natural Resources, and Environments: African and Asian Experiences
[full text]
Stewart
Lockie, Central Queensland University, & David A.
Sonnenfeld, State University of New York
Articles
State-Community Interactions
Institutional
Configurations Around Forest Reserves in
Zimbabwe:
The Challenge of Nested Institutions for Resource Management
Frank Matose,
University of the
Western Cape,
South Africa
Prospects for
Enhancing Livelihoods, Communities, and Biodiversity in Africa through
Community-Based
Forest Management: A
Critical Analysis
Robert E.
Mazur & Oleg V. Stakhanov,
Iowa State University,
USA
Social
Mobility, New Networks, and Local Knowledge
Local Knowledge
and Fisheries Resource Management: A Study Among Riverine Fishing Communities in
Kerala,
India
Sunil D.
Santha,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
India
Hanging in
Balance: Benefit Sharing in Community-Based Fishery Resource Management in the
Lower
Mekong
Basin
Le Nguyet
Minh, Oxfam
America, East
Asia Regional
Office,
Cambodia
Groundwater
Management in Rice Terraces: A Case Study of a Lakeside Community in
Shiga Prefecture,
Japan
Sanae
Yamamoto,
Kwansei Gakuin University,
Japan
Resource
Access and Property Rights
Gender Roles and
Practices in Natural Resource Management in the
North West
Province of
Cameroon
Lotsmart
Fonjong,
University of Buea,
Cameroon
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