Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods
Uniting Science and Participation
- 272 pages
- English
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Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods
Uniting Science and Participation
About this book
Management of local resources has a greater chance of a sustainable outcome when there is partnership between local people and external agencies, and agendas relevant to their aspirations and circumstances. Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods analyses and extends this premise to show unequivocally that the process of research for improving natural resource management must incorporate participatory and user-focused approaches, leading to development based on the needs and knowledge of local resource users.
Drawing on extensive and highly relevant case studies, this book presents innovative approaches for establishing and sustaining participation and collective decision-making, good practice for research, and challenges for future developments. It covers a wide range of natural resources - including forests and soils, and water and management units, such as watersheds and common property areas - and provides practical lessons from analysis and meta-analysis of cases from Asia, Africa and Latin America. It offers insights on how to make research participatory while maintaining rigour and high-quality biological science, different forms of participation, and ways to scale up and extend participatory approaches and successful initiatives.
This book will be invaluable for those professionally involved in natural resource management for sustainable development and an essential resource for teachers and students of both the biophysical and social science aspects of natural resource management.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables, Figures and Boxes
- List of Contributors
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Foreword by Joachim Voss, Director General, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Uniting Science and Participation in the Process of Innovation – Research for Development: Jacqui Ashby
- 2 Navigating Complexity, Diversity and Dynamism: Reflections on Research for Natural Resource Management: Cynthia McDougall and Ann Braun
- 3 Whose Research, Whose Agenda?: Adrienne Martin and Alistair Sutherland
- 4 Scaling Up and Out: Sieglinde Snapp and K L Heong
- 5 Transforming Institutions to Achieve Innovation in Research and Development: Ann Stroud
- 6 Principles for Good Practice in Participatory Research: Reflecting on Lessons from the Field: Ronnie Vernooy and Cynthia McDougall
- 7 Participatory Research, Natural Resource Management and Rural Transformation: More Lessons from the Field: Linden Vincent
- 8 Participation in Context: What’s Past, What’s Present, and What’s Next: Dianne E Rocheleau
- Annexe 1: Summaries of Case Studies
- Index