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  Communication and natural resource management: experience/theory

  Communication Initiative, 2003

  This book is a tool for people involved or interested in communication and natural resource management who seek a better understanding of how different theories and strategic change principles relate to actual practice.The book relates a variety of theories and change principles in simplified, almost schematic form, to a series of real initiatives in the field through interactive ‘experiences’.
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  Rhetoric or reality? Joint management of natural resources in India

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Policies promoting joint management (between the state and the users) of natural resources such as forests or water are increasing in India and elsewhere: decentralised administration has advantages that are tempting. However, joint management, implying as it does a redistribution of power, is profoundly political.
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  Reaching a watershed? Local government reform and water management in India

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Recent guidelines issued by central government for watershed development in India fit awkwardly with local government or Panchayati Raj. While decentralisation of development planning and implementation are key objectives at both levels, the roles of the proposed Watershed Committees overlap - and potentially compete - with those of the local government.
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  Shedding light on watersheds. How to develop water resources and their use in drought-prone areas

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Availability of water - and right of access to it - are key factors for survival in Drought Prone Uplands (DPUs). Competition for water is increasing. Which are the right technologies to pursue? What institutional change is needed to make them effective? Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute examined these issues in several developing countries.
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  Ownership, control and access: land tenure and land degradation in Northern Togo

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Traditional land tenure systems in Togo have been undermined but not destroyed by the introduction of private property and ‘modern’ tenure reform. However, confusion over land tenure issues has proved to be an obstacle to efforts to promote efficient resource management and to combat desertification.
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  Adaptive learning: lessons from Southern Lao PDR

  Marine Resources Assessment Group, 2002

  These guidelines share the experiences of applying an ‘adaptive learning’ approach to the management of small waterbodies in Southern Lao PDR.Adaptive learning is a management approach that explicitly recognises that uncertainties exist and, instead of glossing over them, seeks to reduce them at the same time as managing the resource.
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  Parks beyond Parks: Genuine community-based wildlife eco-tourism or just another loss of land for Maasai pastoralists in Kenya?

  Drylands Programme, IIED, 2002

  This paper provides an analysis of the Kenyan ‘Parks beyond parks’ programme which attempts to introduce a community based social component to their parks management policies by allowing locals to establish eco-tourism projects adjacent to parks.
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  Transforming or tinkering?: new forms of engagement between communities and the private sector in tourism and forestry in Southern Africa

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  In South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique there are a plethora of policy statements, approaches and initiatives that are seeking to commercialise tourism and forestry assets, while simultaneously incorporating some element of community involvement.
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  Tourism, local livelihoods, and the private sector in South Africa: case studies on the growing role of the private sector in Natural Resources Management

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  Looks at how changing institutional arrangements and policies affect poor people's livelihoods and access to natural resources.It addresses tourism in South Africa, and the growing role of the private sector in natural resource management.
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  Community based natural resources management in Mozambique: a theoretical or practical strategy for local sustainable development?: the case study of Derre Forest Reserve

  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 which has been widely promoted in southern Africa, and is central to elements of the Mozambican forestry and wildlife policy of 1999.The paper examines the history of com

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