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Conflict and Cooperation in Participatory Natural Resource Management (Global Issues (Palgrave MacMillan))
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Description for Conflict and Cooperation in Participatory Natural Resource Management (Global Issues (Palgrave MacMillan))
Hardcover. This volume, based on detailed case studies from around the world, subjects some experiments testing centralized and local management of natural resources to critical study, and suggests limits to the participative approach as well as ways it can be improved and made suitable for new contexts. Editor(s): Jeffery, Roger; Vira, Bhaskar. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Over the past one hundred years in particular, there has been a steady process by which natural resources (such as ground-water, forests, fishing grounds and grazing land) have been increasingly managed by centralised institutions. Governments and other national agencies have argued that this promotes efficiency, equity, and other wide national goals. Recently this orthodoxy has been challenged by rising numbers of experiments that show how centralised management tends to fail. Global, national and local goals are more likely to be met, at lower cost and with other benefits (such as promoting better democratic institutions) by involving local populations in collaborative ... Read more
Over the past one hundred years in particular, there has been a steady process by which natural resources (such as ground-water, forests, fishing grounds and grazing land) have been increasingly managed by centralised institutions. Governments and other national agencies have argued that this promotes efficiency, equity, and other wide national goals. Recently this orthodoxy has been challenged by rising numbers of experiments that show how centralised management tends to fail. Global, national and local goals are more likely to be met, at lower cost and with other benefits (such as promoting better democratic institutions) by involving local populations in collaborative ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Global Issues
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333792773
SKU
V9780333792773
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STEPHEN BIGGS Senior Lecturer, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK RABINDRA NATH CHAKRABORTY German Development Institute, Berlin JOHN DE MARCO BirdLife International, Project Manager, Ijim Mountain Forest Project ANNE GARDNER BirdLife International, Ijim Mountain Forest Project NGETA KABIRI Ph.D. Student, Political Science Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill MAX KELLY Ph.D. Student, School of Geography, ... Read more
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