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  Openness, sustainability, and public participation in transboundary river-basin institutions

  Office of Arid Land Studies University of Arizona, 1998

  Existing analyses of water compacts fall short by ignoring place, a vital component when considering the viability of treaties. omprehensive examinations of how international river basins are managed are also markedly lacking.
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  Water Insecurity and the Poor: Issues and Research Needs

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 1998

  The problems of water insecurity can be grouped under three main headings: availability, access and usage. In the framework of a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of water problems, the paper elaborates on these three elements, defining sectoral and cross-sectoral knowledge gaps. The paper concludes with a research agenda in support of improved policy design and action. [author]
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  Company-community forestry partnerships: a growing phenomenon

  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 advantages and disadvantages in relation to trees outside forests.
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  Community participation in traditional irrigation scheme rehabilitation projects in Tanzania: report of a collaborative research project

  Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2001

  This research article looks at how participatory methods can be used in projects to rehabilitate tradtional irrigation schemes in Tanzania.
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  Managing small-scale fisheries: alternative directions and methods

  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.
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  Management Options for Biodiversity Protection and Population

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995

  This overview paper stresses what most of the authors believe: that in order to successfully manage biodiversity, local residents and resource users must be involved, and the people who are affected by conservation projects must be partners in the projects, otherwise they will not succeed.
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  Desertification and drought - extent and consequences proposal for a participatory approach to combat desertification

  FAO Hypermedia Collection on Desertification, 1995
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  Rethinking Policy Options for Watershed Management by Local Communities: Combining Equity, Efficiency and Ecological-Economic Viability

  Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999

  Argues for certain basic re-thinking in the policy options for viable watershed management by combining local knowledge with the formal science through rejuvenated or revitalized traditional institutions. Part one reviews the policy environment in the light of some of the recent reports in India which have a major bearing on watershed development programs.
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  Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when

  Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999

  Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists. Many continue to share despite knowing that by withholding this knowledge they could receive pecuniary advantage.
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  Assessing the Need to Manage Conflict in Community-Based Natural Resource Projects

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Considers the role of ‘conflict management assessment’ in community-based natural resource projects. The importance of conducting an assessment of the potential for conflict and its management in relation to a project intervention is stressed, and an assessment framework described.

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