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Roger Jeffery
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University of Edinburgh, UK
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Bhaskar Vira
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Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, USA
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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 management agreements. This volume, based on detailed case studies from around the world, subjects some of these experiments to critical study, and suggests limits to the participative approach as well as ways it can be improved and made suitable for new contexts.
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11 September 2015
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
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- Roger Jeffery, Bhaskar Vira
Pages 1-15
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Where Local Conflicts over Resource Use Make Participation Unlikely
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Local-Level Projects Attempting to Overcome Unsupportive National Contexts
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Learning from Success: Where National Policies are Supportive, but Participative Action is Novel
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- Rabindra Nath Chakraborty
Pages 129-149
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- Frank Simpson, Girish Sohani
Pages 150-168
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Learning from Success: Supportive National Policies and Local Initiatives
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Front Matter
Pages 169-169
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- David Thomas, Anne Gardner, John DeMarco
Pages 189-203
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- Stephen Biggs, Harriet Matsaert, Adrienne Martin
Pages 204-226
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Back Matter
Pages 227-246
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Edinburgh, UK
Roger Jeffery
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Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, USA
Bhaskar Vira
About the editors
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, Kingston University
PAUL KERKHOF Research and Development Worker specialised on Forest Resources
ANNA LAWRENCE Senior Research Associate, Centre for Natural Resources and Development, Green College, University of Oxford
HARRIET MATSAERT Social Anthropologist, Harare
ADRIENNE MARTIN Social Development Group, Natural Resource Institute, University of Greenwich, Chatham, Kent
MARYAM NIAMIR-FULLER Land Degradation Advisor and Task Manager, Biodiversity Conservation, GEF/UNDP
DEVAKI PANINI Lawyer and Specialist in Environmental Law
BACKSON SIBANDA Chief of Evaluation, United Nations Environment Programme
FRANK SIMPSON
GIRISH SOHANI
DAVID THOMAS BirdLife International, Projects and Project Manager