Natural Resource Management

The discourse of advocacy coalitions: Desired futures and natural resource issues

Using discourse analysis, this paper synthesizes, characterizes, and summarizes information gathered from in-depth interviews and focus groups with key representatives of civil society, state, and market-oriented […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): F. Campana; M. Bravo
  • Type of Document: Research Report

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Capital, community and collective action: Social foundations of sustainability in an Andean buffer zone (Ecuador)

Development approaches have traditionally emphasized material resources, ignoring the less tangible forms of capital. But sustainable development, especially in relation to land use and production systems, […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): J. Flora
  • Type of Document: Research Brief

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Why watershed-based water management makes sense

The alarming increase in the scarcity of water in various parts of the world has focused global attention on the need for a stronger and more […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): H. Francisco
  • Type of Document: Research Brief

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Landcare on the poverty-protection interface in an Asian watershed

This paper presents an integrated approach to natural resource management (INRM) that addresses both conservation of biodiversity and development to increase incomes and well-being in impoverished, […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): D. Garrity; V. Amoroso; S. Koffa; D. Catacutan; G. Buenavista; C. Fay; W. Dar
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Community participation for conservation and development of natural resources: A summary of literature and report of research findings

This paper reviews the available literature on participatory approaches to natural resource management, identifying nine specific elements that are common in literature. The authors explain how […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): S. Gasteyer; C. Flora; E. Fernandez-Baca; D. Banerji; S. Bastian; S. Aleman; M. Kroma; A. Mears
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Land Trusts and direct payments as mechanisms to secure land for conservation

Abstract: Many protected areas in Africa are too small to provide the full array of ecological requirements for key wildlife species. Consequently numerous species spend long […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): H. Gichohi
  • Type of Document: Media

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Restoring community through concensus: Restauration de l’entente communautaire a travers le concensus. Community concensus workshops: Ateliers de formation en concensus communautaire

Excerpt: This learning manual can be used as a guide for those trained as facilitators to successfully resolve conflicts and build concensus in various settings. The […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): J. Goebel
  • Type of Document: Research Report

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Development and the upland resource base: economic and policy context, and lessons from a Philippine watershed

This paper examines the complex, non-linear relationships between economic growth and environmental degradation that are apparent in the variety of experiences in the recent history of […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): I. Coxhead
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Development policies, resource constraints, and agricultural expansion on the Philippine land frontier

This paper addresses the interactions between development policies and upland agriculture expansion with a model of household-level responses to economic and technical factors, based on characteristics […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): I. Coxhead; G. Shively; X. Shuai
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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The potential for conservation contracts to contribute to biodiversity conservation in Madagascar

Abstract: The desire to conserve the exceptional biodiversity present in Madagascar’s forests has been an important stimulant of the roughly $300 million invested in the environment […]

  • Date of Publication: 2002
  • Author(s): J.C. Durbin; A. Andrianarimisa; P.J. Decosse; C.A. Keck; F.A. Hawkins
  • Type of Document: Media

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