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Format: 1 online resource (451 p.)

ISBN: 1-280-71827-7 , 9786610718276 , 1-55250-230-9

Content: Synthesizes results from a 7-year programme of applied research on community-based approaches to natural resource management in Asia. This book provides models of 'good practice' in participatory, community-based resource management, and demonstrates how it contributes to broader learning in the field of natural resource management and policy.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Biographies of authors -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction: poverty and environment in practice -- Global agendas and local change -- Cases of local research and action -- Origins of the cases -- Why this book? -- Producing this book -- Organization of the cases -- Synthesizing project results and exploring gaps -- 2. Community-based natural resource management: a research approach to rural poverty and environmental degradation -- Why has research failed to reach the poor? -- Defining CBNRM research -- Building blocks of CBNRM research -- A practical framework for action research -- Applying the framework: case studies from Asia -- Part II: Community-based natural resource management in action -- 3. Community-based natural resource management and decentralized governance in Ratanakiri, Cambodia -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The context -- Empowering communities to negotiate land and forest tenure -- Building the capacity to decentralize -- Networking -- Role of the research project in a changing institutional landscape -- Challenges -- Gains -- Conclusions and lessons learned -- Acknowledgements -- 4. Participatory local planning for resource governance in the Tam Giang lagoon, Vietnam -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The lagoon context and recent changes -- Participatory research and outcomes -- The middle lagoon (Tan Duong village, Thuan An) -- Government planning structure and fisheries policy reform -- Participatory planning for lagoon use in Quang Thai -- The emerging model for participatory local planning -- Innovative elements of participatory planning -- Lessons learned -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements. , 5. Towards upland sustainable development: livelihood gains and resource management in central Vietnam -- Abstract -- Introduction and background -- The project site -- Our participatory research approach -- Improving the material livelihoods of the upland poor -- Building assets -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- 6. Co-management of Pastureland in Mongolia -- Abstract -- Background -- Project objectives and study sites -- Working for co-management -- Changes and outcomes -- Challenges -- Lessons learned and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- 7. Exclusion, accommodation and community-based natural resource management: legitimizing the enclosure of a community fishery in southern Laos -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Setting the scene: the case and local realities -- Relationship between state and village -- The case -- Enclosure of the backswamp -- Nong Bua legitimization process -- People's differing perspectives -- Conclusion -- Part III: From local action to policy impact -- 8. Building networks of support for community-based coastal resource management in Cambodia -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The PMMR team and coastal villages -- International and regional partnerships -- Networking in Asia and Canada -- Understanding the national policy context -- Conclusion -- 9. Scaling up community-based natural resource management in Guizhou province, China -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Putting CBNRM into practice: insights from the first six years -- Local institutional development for sustainable resource management: building on local knowledge and practice -- Progress made so far -- Conclusions and lessons -- Acknowledgements -- 10. Walking the extra mile: from field learning to natural resource management research and policy in Bhutan -- Abstract -- Context -- Renewable natural resource administration -- Lingmutey Chu watershed. , Learning to walk: implementing participatory approaches -- Water management in Lingmutey Chu -- Community forestry in Lingmutey Chu -- Project impacts in the community and beyond: changes in doing research -- Scaling up the CBNRM approach -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- 11. Strengthening local voices to inform national policy: community forestry in Cambodia -- Abstract -- Background -- The evolution of community forestry: an alternative pathway -- Project start-up and site selection -- Strengthening local forest management practices in Chumkiri -- Multi-agency and multilevel approaches -- Creating links between field learning, institutions and policy development -- Future challenges -- Acknowledgements -- 12. Harmonizing ancestral domain with local governance in the Cordillera of the northern Philippines -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The ancestral domain of traditional communities -- Formulating the ADMP -- Other elements of the management plan -- Impact and consequences: when communities take over -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- 13. Shaping the key to fit the lock: participatory action research and community forestry in the Philippines -- Abstract -- The learning context -- Methodological concerns and early lessons -- The key does not fit the lock -- Linking people to policy -- Coming full circle -- Reflections -- Acknowledgements -- Part IV: Poverty, community and policy impact in action research -- 14. Creating options for the poor through participatory research -- Why should research be pro-poor? -- How can research be pro-poor? -- Strengthening pro-poor CBNRM research: methodological issues -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- 15. Exclusive, moi? Natural resource management, poverty, inequality and gender in Asia -- Introduction -- Trends in poverty, inequality, and governance in Asia -- Conceptual issues. , Inequality, poverty and gender: evidence from the field -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- 16. CBNRM communities in action -- Introduction -- Critical perspectives -- Constructing communities -- CBNRM communities in action -- Evaluation and new directions -- 17. Shaping policy from the field -- Introduction -- What is policy? -- Governance reform and decentralization -- What does policy look like from the field? -- Strategies for achieving policy influence -- New roles in policy reform -- Challenges -- Conclusions -- 18. Conclusions: community-based natural resource management in action -- Learning from the cases -- What happened? -- Explaining what happened -- Reflecting on challenges and implications -- Directions for practice -- Directions for research -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-85339-638-9

Language: English