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Community-based eco-tourism on the Wild Coast, South Africa: the case of the Amadiba Trail
Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003This 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 involve the Amadiba people in all aspects of running a project including planning, implementation, management and decision making.DocumentSocial literature review for the knowledge in fisheries management project
Institute for Fisheries Management and Coastal Community Development, 2001This 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 institutional aspects of the knowledge base of fisheries management: What difference does it make how and by whom the knowledge is produced that management uses to make and jDocumentThe process of institution building to facilitate local biodiversity management
Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002This paper examines theoretical approaches and practical experiences on local participation and the use of local institutions to improve biodiversity management.DocumentThe fishery effects of marine reserves and fishery closures
WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2002Marine 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 output of exploited species.DocumentMarine reserves: a tool for ecosystem management and conservation
Pew Oceans Commission, 2002This 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 ecosystems.DocumentAssessment of CBNRM best practices in Tanzania
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002This paper reports on an assessment made of best practice CBNRM projects in Tanzania.DocumentCollective action, property rights, and devolution of natural resource management
CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2001Policy briefing on experience of programmes aiming to improve the management of natural resources by supporting the participation of local resource usersDocumentParticipatory monitoring and evaluation of biodiversity: results of the ETFRN e-workshop
European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2002Information 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 sought to examine a number of aspects of Participatory monitoring and evaluation of biodiversity including the ways in which values affect the assessment processDocumentDemocratic decentralization of natural resources: institutionalizing popular participation
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002Series of case studies exploring the how natural resource decentralizations have taken place and their measurable social and environmental outcomes.DocumentCBNRM and AIDS in Bushbuckridge, Northern Province, South Africa: an exploratory geographic analysis
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002This paper documents an attempt to study the intersection of HIV/AIDS and community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) carried out in early 2002 in the Bushbuckridge area, South Africa.Pages