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MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS
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MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS Uniting Science and Participation Edited by Barry Pound, Sieglinde Snapp, Cynthia McDougall, and Ann Braun Earthscan/IDRC 2003 ISBN 1-84407-026-3 e-ISBN 1-55250-071-3 260 pp.   
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.
THE EDITORS
Barry Pound is a farming systems and livelihoods specialist at the Natural Resources Institute, UK. Sieglinde Snapp is Assistant Professor of Integrated Crop Management at Michigan State University, USA, and works with farmers in applying biological principles to the design of resilient systems. Cynthia McDougall is a social scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia, focused on enhancing equity and livelihoods in community forestry. Ann Braun is an agricultural ecologist focused on mentoring participatory and user-sensitive approaches to research, supporting learning processes and promoting ecological literacy.
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List of Contributors 2003 Acronyms and Abbreviations 2003 Foreword Joachim Voss, Director General, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) 2003 Preface 2003 Acknowledgements 2003 Chapter 1. Introduction: Uniting Science and Participation in the Process of Innovation – Research for Development Jacqui Ashby 2003 Chapter 2. Navigating Complexity, Diversity and Dynamism: Reflections on Research for Natural Resource Management Cynthia McDougall and Ann Braun 2003 Chapter 3. Whose Research, Whose Agenda? Adrienne Martin and Alistair Sutherland 2003 Chapter 4. Scaling Up and Out Sieglinde Snapp and K L Heong 2003 Chapter 5. Transforming Institutions to Achieve Innovation in Research and Development Ann Stroud 2003 Chapter 6. Principles for Good Practice in Participatory Research: Reflecting on Lessons from the Field Ronnie Vernooy and Cynthia McDougall 2003 Chapter 7. Participatory Research, Natural Resource Management and Rural Transformation: More Lessons from the Field Linden Vincent 2003 Chapter 8. Participation in Context: What’s Past, What’s Present, and What’s Next Dianne E Rocheleau 2003 Appendix 1: Summaries of Case Studies 2003 Index 2003 |
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