Over the past one hundred years in particular, there has been a steady process by which natural resources (such as ground-water, forests, fishing grounds and grazing land) have been increasingly managed by centralised institutions. Governments and other national agencies have argued that this promot
Conflict and Cooperation in Participatory Natural Resource Management
β Scribed by Roger Jeffery, Bhaskar Vira (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 255
- Series
- Global Issues Series
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Conflict Management and Mobility among Pastoralists in Karamoja, Uganda....Pages 19-38
The Social Context of Environmental Education: The Case of the Amboseli Ecosystem, Kajiado, Kenya....Pages 39-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Addressing Livelihood Issues in Conservation-oriented Projects: A Case Study of Pulicat Lake, Tamil Nadu, India....Pages 63-74
Land Husbandry for Sustainable Agricultural Development in a Subsistence Farming Area of Malawi: Farmer Adoption of Introduced Techniques....Pages 75-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Local Management of Sahelian Forests....Pages 99-112
CAMPFIRE: Tonga Cosmovision and Indigenous Knowledge....Pages 113-128
Problems of Intra- and Inter-group Equity in Community Forestry: Evidence from the Terai Region of Nepal....Pages 129-149
Benefits to Villagers in Maharashtra, India, from Conjunctive Use of Water Resources....Pages 150-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Creating New Knowledge for Soil and Water Conservation in Bolivia....Pages 171-188
Devolution of Decision-making: Lessons from Community Forest Management at the KilumβIjim Forest Project, Cameroon....Pages 189-203
Changing Natural Resource Research and Development Capability: Whither Social Capital?....Pages 204-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-246
β¦ Subjects
Environmental Management; Natural Resources; Environmental Sociology
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