Natural resource management
- Governing natural resources in Mozambique: the consequences of community management for the poor
- I. Nhantumbo; S. Norfolk; J. Pereira / IUCN, Mozambique, 2003
- What does community based natural resource management (CBNRM) mean for Mozambique's poor? Through the case study of Derre Forest Reserve in Zambezia province, this paper explores the theory and practice of CBNRM, an approach wh...
- Eco-tourism in South Africa
- Z. Ntshona; E. Lahiff / Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003
- This paper investigates the origins and current operation of the Amadiba Horse and Hiking Trail, a community-based initiative located on South Africa's Wild Coast. The trail project presents itself as a people-centred, designed to inv...
- How knowledge is used by fisheries management institutions
- D.C. Wilson / Institute for Fisheries Management and Coastal Community Development, 2001
- This paper aims to find out what we know about how knowledge is used by fisheries management institutions, in order to help design co-management institutions to meet these goals. It examines two critical questions about the ins...
- Do we expect too much from participatory approaches to conservation?
- P. Vedeld / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of L, 2002
- This paper examines theoretical approaches and practical experiences on local participation and the use of local institutions to improve biodiversity management. It summarises the development of various approaches to management over t...
- Does closing areas to fishing increase fisheries beyond the reserves? : an analysis of the evidence
- F. Gell; C. Roberts / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2002
- Marine reserves, areas permanently closed to all fishing, are frequently proposed as a tool for managing fisheries. Fishery benefits claimed for reserves include increases in spawning stock size, animal body size, and reproductive out...
- More marine reserves are the way forward in saving US marine ecosystems
- S. Palumbi / Pew Oceans Commission, 2002
- This paper considers the variety of threats and competition for use faced by the ocean ecosystems of the U.S. The author argues that seemingly separate threats such as pollution and fishing are linked in that both affect entire marine...
- Analysis of best practice examples of CBNRM projects in Tanzania
- J. Alcorn; A. Kajuni; B. Winterbottom / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
- This paper reports on an assessment made of best practice CBNRM projects in Tanzania. Research and reverie of literature and data identified projects to visit that reportedly met the following criteria: reported to have...
- Devolution of natural resource management
- B. Katon; A. Knox; R. Meinzen-Dick / CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2001
- Policy briefing on experience of programmes aiming to improve the management of natural resources by supporting the participation of local resource users
- Participatory monitoring and evaluation of biodiversity
- European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2002
- Information on this ETFRN workshop, which took place in January 2002, have been made available and include a range of useful resources including a summary report, research inventory and background papers. This ETFRN workshop so...
- Research on decentralization of natural resources management
- J. Ribot / World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002
- Series of case studies exploring the how natural resource decentralizations have taken place and their measurable social and environmental outcomes. Most of the cases focus on forestry, while a few explore wildlife and water managemen...
- Review of integrated approaches to river basin planning, development, and management
- Donna J. Lee; Ariel Dinar / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- A review of models for river basin development, operations, management, water quantity and quality, recreational demand, countrywide planning, and multiple objective planning. Piecemeal approaches to river basin development and...
- Exploring understandings of institutions and uncertainty: new directions in natural resource management
- L. Mehta; M. Leach; P. Newell; I. Scoones; K. Sivaramakrishnan; S-A. Way / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
- The paper examines the nexus between institutions and uncertainty in natural resources management contexts. It argues that conventional understandings of institutions fail to focus on how they deal with the ever-increasing form...
- Lessons learned from a long-running integrated rural development project in the Niger
- R. Carucci / Unasylva, FAO, 2000
- This article focuses on lessons about desertification and the potential of trees as part of the solution, drawn from a specific rural situation in the Sahel, that of Keita, Tahoua Department, the Niger. Author provides observations an...
- Out-grower schemes, joint ventures and other formal and informal partnership arrangements in relation to trees outside forests
- J. Mayers / Unasylva, FAO, 2000
- This article examines the relatively new, but growing, range of company-community relationships for the production of forest goods- out-grower schemes, joint ventures, other contracts and informal arrangements - and discusses their ad...
- How institutional arrangements affect which natural resource management technologies are adopted
- A. Knox; R. Meinzen-Dick; P. Hazell / CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 1998
- Explores how the institutions of property rights and collective action play a particularly important role in the application of technologies for agricultural and natural resource management. Technologies with long time frames t...
- Community-based natural resource management should focus on the politics of resource access and control
- R. Mearns; M. Leach; I. Scoones / Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2000
- This article begins by criticising neo-malthusian approaches to community-based resource management (CBNRM), which frames problems in terms of imbalances between social needs and aggregate resource availability. The article urges the ...
- Asks if the CAMPFIRE community-based natural resource management strategies can be applied more widely
- B. Campbell; N. Byron; P. Hobane; E. Madzudzo; F. Matose; L. Wily / Institute of Environmental Studies, Zimbabwe, 1999
- Policy brief looking at whether the CAMPFIRE initiatives that involve empowering local communities to manage and benefit from their natural resources can be applied to a broader spectrum of woodland resources. It identifies the...
- The affects of sustainable livelihoods approaches on Natural Resource Management
- C. Ashley / Overseas Development Institute, 1999
- Reviews different uses of livelihoods analysis in four projects/programmes, and identifies lessons learnt on the application of a livelihoods approach. All four examples explored how rural livelihoods affect and are affected by natura...
- Small-scale fisheries and fishers in crisis
- F. Berkes; R. Mahon; P. McConney; R. Pollnac; R. Pomeroy / International Development Research Centre, 2001
- Paper looks beyond the scope of conventional fishery management to alternative concepts, tools, methods, and conservation strategies. There is, for example, broader emphasis on ecosystem management and participatory decision-making. T...
- Extensive pastoral livestock systems: issues and options for the future
- Japan-FAO Association, 1999
- This article explores extensive pastoral livestock systems. The article indicates that: extensive pastoral production used some 25% of the world’s land and produces some 10% of the meat used for human consum...
- Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning (CAEP)
- Founded in 2001, the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning (CAEP) of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) is a public institution with independent legal status. CAEP provides technical support and services such as environmental planning, environmental policy and consultation on environmental project selection management for the Chinese government and corporations.
- Global Land Project (GLP)
- The Global Land Project is a joint research project for land systems for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP).
- Asia-Pacific Water Forum
- The Asia-Pacific Water Forum is an independent network which supports the integration of water resources management into socio-economic development processes.
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD)
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organisations, coalitions, NGOs and networks.
- Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF)
- The Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF) helps to develop the capacity of the people and institutions of the Congo Basin to preserve and manage their forests.
- International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
- The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) is an intergovernmental organisation promoting the conservation and sustainable management, use and trade of tropical forest resources. Its members represent about 80 per cent of the world's tropical forests and 90 per cent of the global tropical timber trade.
- Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA)
- AIDA is a non-profit environmental law organisation that works across international borders to defend threatened ecosystems and the human communities that depend on them.
- Oslo Climate and Forest Conference (OSFC)
- International conference on climate and forests held in Oslo, Norway, May 2010
- The Centre for People and Forests (RECOFTC)
- The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) is an international organisation with a vision of local communities actively managing forests in Asia and the Pacific to ensure optimal social, economic and environmental benefits.
