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Using ICTs to influence policy

CBNRM Net: from managing natural resources to managing ecosystems, knowledge and people

Environmental online communication for CBNRM

Authors: L.T. Soeftestad; P. Kashwan
Publisher: Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network , 2004

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This paper looks at how environmental online communication (EOC) could move beyond an emphasis on information to focus on knowledge (and to management of such knowledge) that can be instrumental in achieving the goals of more equitable and sustainable natural resource management.

Using the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net) as a case study, it offers an assessment of the present and future role and scope of EOC in development cooperation, and in CBNRM in particular. [author]