Typologies of production and power: Household livelihood strategies and gender roles in an Andean frontier economy
This brief illustrates an application of production strategy analysis in the SANREM CRSP Ecuadorian site. Production strategy analysis is an interdisciplinary research approach that elucidates how […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): C. Flora
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Gender, Natural Resource Management, Policy, Productivity
Establishing an institutional infrastructure for improved ENRM: The local Environment and Natural Resources Office
Excerpt: In this issue we cover the topic on effecting a full devolution of environmental management functions to LGU’s by creating the local Environment and Natural […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): D. Catacutan; A. Tabbada; C. Duque
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Setting quality standards for environmental management policy: How effective is it?
In the face of continuing environmental degradation in the Philippines brought about by, among other causes, urbanization and industrialization, it is important to ask what has […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): D. Elazegui
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Asia
- Topic: 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
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
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
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
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
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
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
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management, Policy
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
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
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
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
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
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
