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Book Synopsis Problematizing the Role of Community in Natural Resource Management by : Rafael Calderón-Contreras
Download or read book Problematizing the Role of Community in Natural Resource Management written by Rafael Calderón-Contreras and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of whether or not communities could and should manage their own resources according to their own custom, knowledge and technologies is an issue that has been analyzed from divergent perspectives. Recent academic attempts remark the positive role of 'community' in natural resources conservation; however, local and indigenous populations have been criticized by anthropological and historical research, arguing that communities are not as environmentally-friendly as it has been stated. Either constrained by socio-economic and political processes or romanticized by advocates of community-based approaches; this academic work seeks to answer if is the community's fate to disappear in the context of natural resources conservation, or under the pressures of current neo-liberal processes? Or is it possible to enhance the positive role of communities in the conservation and management of natural resources. Based on a review of different theoretical perspectives, Problematizing the Role of Community in Natural Resource Management assess the role of community in forest conservation using as a case study the top-down management systems of the Nevado de Toluca National Park (NTNP).
Book Synopsis Partnerships for Empowerment by : Carl Wilmsen
Download or read book Partnerships for Empowerment written by Carl Wilmsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participatory research has emerged as an approach to producing knowledge that is sufficiently grounded in local needs and realities to support community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), and it is often touted as crucial to the sustainable management of forests and other natural resources. This book analyses the current state of the art of participatory research in CBNRM. Its chapters and case studies examine recent experiences in collaborative forest management, harvesting impacts on forest shrubs, watershed restoration in Native American communities, civic environmentalism in an urban neighborhood and other topics. Although the main geographic focus of the book is the United States, the issues raised are synthesized and discussed in the context of recent critiques of participatory research and CBNRM worldwide. The book's purpose is to provide insights and lessons for academics and practitioners involved in CBNRM in many contexts. The issues it covers will be relevant to participatory research and CBNRM practitioners and students the world over.
Book Synopsis Environmental Communication and Community by : Tarla Rai Peterson
Download or read book Environmental Communication and Community written by Tarla Rai Peterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As society has become increasingly aware of environmental issues, the challenge of structuring public participation opportunities that strengthen democracy, while promoting more sustainable communities has become crucial for many natural resource agencies, industries, interest groups and publics. The processes of negotiating between the often disparate values held by these diverse groups, and formulating and implementing policies that enable people to fulfil goals associated with these values, can strengthen communities as well as tear them apart. This book provides a critical examination of the role communication plays in social transition, through both construction and destruction of community. The authors examine the processes and practices put in play when people who may or may not have previously seen themselves as interconnected, communicate with each other, often in situations where they are competing for the same resources. Drawing upon a diverse selection of case-studies on the American, Asian and European continents, the chapters chart a range of approaches to environmental communication, including symbolic construction, modes of organising and agonistic politics of communication. This volume will be of great interest to researchers, teachers, and practitioners of environmental communication, environmental conflict, community development and natural resource management.
Book Synopsis Community-based Research by : Dana Christine Thomsen
Download or read book Community-based Research written by Dana Christine Thomsen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Natural resource managers are facing increasing challenges as environmental degradation accelerates and the need to integrate a broad spectrum of community experiences into management decisions is increasingly recognised. To help meet these novel challenges, this study explores how professional researchers and communities can combine their skills and learn to work in partnerships to achieve shared management goals. -- Community-based research involves people as citizen scientists, whereby citizens actively participate in research on local issues. The inclusive nature of community-based research has the ability to produce auxiliary benefits uncommon in conventional research. These include the development of social capital and social learning as the practice of citizen science empowers communities with new skills, knowledge and social networks, thus building capacity within communities to take an effective role in natural resource management. Community-based research also has the potential to enrich the range of management options available by increasing the breadth of accessible knowledge. However, despite much rhetoric about democratising science, little is known about the practice, value and problems of involving citizens as collaborators in natural resource management research projects. -- This thesis presents the findings from a comparative survey of the attitudes to community-based research held by 'citizen' scientists, on the one hand, and 'expert' scientists and natural resource managers, on the other. It also draws upon a multi-site case study, set in a diverse urban-rural catchment, where an integrated research program was established for different natural resource management agencies to work with each other and community groups to develop research protocols so that community groups could participate in assessing the health of catchment areas. This involved scientists, natural resource managers and community education/extension officers working with established community groups to develop and trial modified scientific methods for the environmental monitoring of catchment and estuarine areas. This inter-agency/community project was continued as a case study site into the second and third years of research and was augmented in the second and third years by focusing on two of the initial community groups as second and third case study sites in their own right. -- Synthesis of both survey and case study analysis reveals that, despite resource and attitudinal barriers, community-based research can ensure access to local knowledge and increased relevance of research. In addition, many participants most valued the increased feeling of connection towards their local environment and community. I argue that citizen/expert collaboration is key to successful community-based research and best achieved in an atmosphere of mutual respect where all participants are seen as co-researchers. However, participatory intentions are unlikely to be acted upon without sufficient opportunity. Thus, the process of research must be re-defined from that associated with positivist science to include a greater range of participants and activities in an adaptive manner. This more inclusive and reflective approach seems most likely to ensure the quality and utility of research data, the knowledge sharing and social learning, and the enjoyable atmosphere that underpin successful citizen/expert interactions. Certainly, the ability to draw upon and create social capital is vital. -- The integration of these findings enabled the development of guidelines for effective collaboration between citizens and experts when addressing catchment management issues and undertaking participatory research.
Book Synopsis Community Participation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management by : Zenebe Fentaw
Download or read book Community Participation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management written by Zenebe Fentaw and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the role of farmers' participation in Lenche Dima Watershed management interventions as well factors that act as bottlenecks to the active participation of the community in the watershed. The study assumed that if these factors are not investigated and analyzed, they are likely to cause a continuous impediment on farmers' participation in on-going developments as well as on the viability of development efforts in the country itself. Thus the study helps to increase the concerned parties understanding and commitment towards the full course of the growth and empowerment of rural farmers' participation by eliminating plans, policies and projects that constrain participation in development practices. in a nut shell, as a passing mark this paper ultimately address the issues farmers in general and women's role in particular, the nature of conservation approaches in the watershed, the role of stakeholders including the intervened donor organizations participatory approach versus with its short comings has also included in the research. The finding finally presented suggestions that will be helpful for the ultimate credit of the proceeding.
Book Synopsis The Integration Imperative by : Michael P. Gillingham
Download or read book The Integration Imperative written by Michael P. Gillingham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this work is to develop a better understanding and thinking about the cumulative impacts of multiple natural resource development projects. Cumulative impacts are now one of the most pressing, but complex challenges facing governments, industry, communities, and conservation and natural resource professionals. There has been technical and policy research exploring how cumulative environmental impacts can be assessed and managed. These studies, however, have failed to consider the necessary integration of community, environment and health. Informed by knowledge and experience in northern British Columbia, this book seeks to expand our understanding of the cumulative impacts of natural resource development through an integrated lens. The book offers a timely response to a growing imperative – proposing integrative response to multiple natural resource developments in a way that addresses converging environment, community and health issues. Informed by the editors’ experiences across several complementary areas of expertise, we envision this book as appealing to a wide range of researchers, educators and practitioners, with relevance to a growing audience with appetite for and interest in integrative approaches.
Book Synopsis Partnerships for Empowerment by : Carl Wilmsen
Download or read book Partnerships for Empowerment written by Carl Wilmsen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participatory research has emerged as an approach to producing knowledge that is sufficiently grounded in local needs and realities to support community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), and it is often touted as crucial to the sustainable management of forests and other natural resources. This book analyses the current state of the art of participatory research in CBNRM. Its chapters and case studies examine recent experiences in collaborative forest management, harvesting impacts on forest shrubs, watershed restoration in Native American communities, civic environmentalism in an urb.
Book Synopsis Community Participation and Natural Resource Management :exploring the Attitudes, Roles and Experiences of People Living Within Biosffer Dyfi Biosphere by : Lewis Winks
Download or read book Community Participation and Natural Resource Management :exploring the Attitudes, Roles and Experiences of People Living Within Biosffer Dyfi Biosphere written by Lewis Winks and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Communities and the Environment by : Arun Agrawal
Download or read book Communities and the Environment written by Arun Agrawal and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years environmentalists thought natural resources could be best protected by national legislation. But the poor outcomes of this top-down policy have led conservation professionals today to regard local communities as the agents of conservation efforts. According to a recent survey, more than fifty countries report that they pursue partnerships with local communities in an effort to protect their forests. Despite the recent popularity of a community-based approach, the concept of community rarely receives the attention it should get from those concerned with resource management. This balanced volume redresses the situation, demonstrating both the promise and the potential dangers of community action. Although the contributors advocate community-based conservation, they examine the record with a critical eye. They pay attention to the concrete political contexts in which communities emerge and operate. Understanding the nature of community requires understanding the internal politics of local regions and their relationship to external forces and actors. Especially critical are issues related to ethnicity, gender, and the state.
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Author :Sharing best practices for the future : Regional Community-Based Natural Resource Management Conference, 4-7 March 2003, Windhoek. Namibian Association of Community-Based Natural Resource Management Organisations Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :347 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (824 download)
Book Synopsis Sharing best practices for the future by : Sharing best practices for the future : Regional Community-Based Natural Resource Management Conference, 4-7 March 2003, Windhoek. Namibian Association of Community-Based Natural Resource Management Organisations
Download or read book Sharing best practices for the future written by Sharing best practices for the future : Regional Community-Based Natural Resource Management Conference, 4-7 March 2003, Windhoek. Namibian Association of Community-Based Natural Resource Management Organisations and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Community Participation in National Forest Management by : Cecilia Marie Danks
Download or read book Community Participation in National Forest Management written by Cecilia Marie Danks and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of International Cultural Heritage Law by : Francesco Francioni
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of International Cultural Heritage Law written by Francesco Francioni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides a cutting edge study of the fast developing field of international law on the protection of cultural heritage by taking stock of the recent developments and of the core concepts and current challenges. The legal protection of cultural heritage has come under renewed focus from the international community and states since the 1990s. This is evidenced by the adoption of a range of international instruments. Countries are also enacting cultural heritage legislation or overhauling existing laws within their own national territory. Contributions address the protection of immovable and movable, tangible and intangible cultural heritage in peacetime and in the event of armed conflict as well as the interaction between specific regimes of cultural heritage protection with other fields of international law, including international criminal law, human rights and humanitarian law, environmental law, international trade, investments, and intellectual property. The last part of the Handbook covers diverse regional systems of heritage protection.
Book Synopsis Governance in the Extractive Industries by : Lori Leonard
Download or read book Governance in the Extractive Industries written by Lori Leonard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the global south, are poverty reduction projects. This book explores emergent forms of governance in mining and extractive industry projects around the world. Chapters examine efforts to govern extractive activities across multiple political scales, through intermediaries, instruments, technologies, discourses, and infrastructures. The contributions analyse how multiple micro-processes of rule reverberate through societies to shape the material conditions of everyday life but also politics, social relations, and subjectivities in extractive economies. Detailed case studies are included from Africa (Chad, Nigeria, Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe), Latin America (Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru), and the UN Climate Conference.
Book Synopsis Gender and Development: Natural resource use, microfinance, labour and migration by : Janet Henshall Momsen
Download or read book Gender and Development: Natural resource use, microfinance, labour and migration written by Janet Henshall Momsen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land by : Fred Nelson
Download or read book Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land written by Fred Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Environment and Natural Resource Conservation and Management in Mozambique by : Munyaradzi Mawere
Download or read book Environment and Natural Resource Conservation and Management in Mozambique written by Munyaradzi Mawere and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an eloquent, engaged and extremely well informed narrative of the environmental and natural resource conservation and management issues in Mozambique. While the topics in this volume are diverse, they are all explicitly designed to move beyond the routinized blame of natural resource mismanagement and environmental degradation on local communities, and to rethink ecosystem destruction, land degradation and natural resource over-exploitation in Africa and beyond. Never losing sight of the major causes of environment and resource mismanagement in Mozambique, the book advances the thesis that environment and resource problems are a result of compound factors such as poor governance, poverty, corruption, low education levels, and disregard of endogenous conservation epistemologies. A combination of all these factors makes the whole terrain of conservation even more complicated than ever; hence the need for urgent action by all social actors. This is a valuable book for environmental conservationists, land resource managers, social ecologists, environmental anthropologists, environmental field workers and technicians, practitioners and students of conservation sciences.
