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    Resource mapping: from participatory methods in community-based coastal resource management

    International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, 1998
    A practical manual outlining the concept of this methodology and giving clear, step by step instructions on how to carry out the activity in a coastal community.The aims of resource mapping are:
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    Environment, livelihoods and local institutions: Decentralization in Mainland Southeast Asia

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002
    This report provides an overview of the decentralisation of natural resources decision-making and management in mainland Southeast Asia during the past 20 years. It is based upon seven in-depth case studies from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Yunnan, China and comparative material from ongoing collaborative work with partners in Northern Thailand.
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    Moving Towards Good Forest Governance in Asia and the Pacific

    Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2002
    A draft position paper prepared as part of Indonesian People’s Forum during PREPCOM IV of WSSD to stimulate dialogue and interest in good forest governance.
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    From supervising 'subjects' to supporting 'citizens': recent developments in community forestry in Asia and Africa

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002
    Overview of the development of community forestry management techniques which examines their positive impact on local livlihoods and makes an assessment of future challenges.The report examines the rationale behind community forestry and stresses the case by case approach as central to its success.
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    Devolution and community-based natural resource management: creating space for local people to participate and benefit?

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002
    This paper draws together evidence from a number of studies on the impacts of natural resource devolution policies in several Asian and southern African countries from the perspective of local people. Devolution outcomes are assessed in terms of who has greater benefits and decision-making authority.
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    Biodiversity management and local livelihoods: Rio plus 10

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002
    ODI briefing paper looking at biological resources and their management, for both conservation and people's livlihoods with a view to outlining a framework for best practice.
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    Enchantment and disenchantment: the role of community in natural resource conservation

    Mekonginfo, 1999
    The concept of community is rarely defined or carefully examined by those concerned with community based approaches to resource use and management. This paper seeks to redress this omission by investigating "community" in work concerning resource conservation and management.
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    Distributional impact of community forestry: who is benefiting from Nepal's community forests?

    NepalNet, 2001
    Examines the distributional impact of community forest management on three economic groups (rich, medium and poor) in two selected forest user groups in the Koshi Hills of Nepal with the objective of assessing the costs and benefits of community forest management processes.
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    Managing forests as common property

    Forestry Department, FAO, 1998
    This comprehensive study brings together available information about the role of common property as a system of governance and its current relevance to forest management and use.A review of indigenous common property systems that have disappeared or survived, together with an examination of the experiences of selected contemporary collective management programmes in different countries, reveals
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    Community-based animal health care in Somali areas of Africa: a review

    Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1999
    This review is based on the question "are community-based animal health systems a realistic option for improving primary veterinary services in Somalia?"The article finds that:experience in Southern Sudan suggests that well-coordinated, large-scale community animal health worker (CAHW) systems can form the basis for improved service delivery in conflict zonesreviews of CAHW projects

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