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1 online resource (186 pages)
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9781552503713
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KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Management, Policy, and Institutions in Nepal. Book(s) 7 of 211. KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Management, Policy, and Institutions in Nepal. Edited by Hemant R. Ojha, Netra P. Timsina, Ram B. Chhetri, and Krishna P. Paudel. Foundation Books/IDRC 2007. ISBN 978-81-7596-563-8. e-ISBN 978-1-55250-371-3. 182 pp. In recent years, knowledge systems have become a key area of concern for researchers, policy-makers, and development activists. Knowledge Systems and Natural Resources is a unique collection of case studies from Nepal. It provides rich and incisive insights into critical social processes and deliberative governance. It analyzes how knowledge is produced, disseminated, and applied in various aspects of natural resource governance in Nepal. The book challenges the dichotomy between traditional and scientific knowledge. It proposes to differentiate among systems of knowledge on the basis of the political standing of social actors engaged in natural resource governance. It further proposes that change in governance hinges on how the diverse systems of knowledge come into deliberative interface and to what extent the unequal distribution of power and knowledge resources in society constrain the process of deliberation. This book will be of great interest to development policy-makers, governance specialists, researchers, academics, development advisors, social activists and students of social and political sciences and natural resource management.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Glossary of Nepali Words -- 1 Knowledge Systems and Deliberative Interface in Natural Resource Governance: An Overiew -- Introduction -- Knowledge systems and deliberative interface: Key theoretical issues -- Conceptual frameworks for understanding knowledge systems -- Knowledge systems interface in natural resource governance -- Overview of case studies -- References -- 2 Agricultural Technology Development in Nepal: Critical Assessment from Knowledge System Perspective -- Introduction -- An overview of Nepal Agricultural Research Council -- Different perspectives on agriculture technology development -- Scientists' perspectives -- Farmers' perspectives -- Emerging issues in agriculture technology development: Whose knowledge counts? -- Improving deliberative knowledge interface in agricultural technology development: A way forward -- References -- 3 Contested Knowledge and Reconciliation in Nepal's Community Forestry: A Case of Forest Inventory Policy -- Introduction -- Introduction of inventory policy in community forestry -- Inventory in community forest: The problem story -- The issue of forest inventory in practice -- Inventory in community forestry: An issue of knowledge politics -- The scientific forest inventory and gap in deliberative interface -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 From Grassroots to Policy Deliberation: The Case of Community Forest Users' Federation in Nepal -- Introduction -- Emergence and expansion of forest users' federation -- Evolution -- What led to the emergence of FECOFUN? -- FECOFUN's contribution to deliberative forest governance -- Raising the level of civic consciousness in forest governance -- Civic resistance to non-deliberative government decisions -- Participation in policy deliberation -- Influencing service delivery system.
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ISBN 9788175965638
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Knowledge systems and natural resources Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2008 ISBN 9788175965638
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Print version Knowledge Systems and Natural Resources Management, Policy, and Institutions in Nepal
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English
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