Managing natural resources for sustainable livelihoods : uniting science and participation / edited by Barry Pound ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pound, Barry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural resources--Management.

Natural resources.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

xix, 252 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan ; Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2003.

Summary:

Management of local resources has a greater chance of a sustainable outcome when there is partnership between local people and external agencies, and agendas relevant to their aspirations and circumstances. Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods analyses and extends this premise to show unequivocally that the process of research for improving natural resource management must incorporate participatory and user-focused approaches, leading to development based on the needs and knowledge of local resource users. Drawing on extensive and highly relevant case studies, this book presents innovative approaches for establishing and sustaining participation and collective decision-making, good practice for research, and challenges for future developments. It covers a wide range of natural resources -- including forests and soils, and water and management units such as watersheds and common property areas -- and provides practical lessons from analysis and meta-analysis of cases from Asia, Africa and Latin America. It offers insights on how to make research participatory while maintaining rigour and high-quality biological science, different forms of participation, and ways to scale up and extend participatory approaches and successful initiatives. This book will be invaluable for those professionally involved in natural resource management for sustainable development, and an essential text for teachers and students of both the biophysical and social science aspects of natural resource management.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Uniting Science and Participation in the Process of Innovation - Research for Development / Jacqui Ashby 1

The challenge for research 4

Adding value to resource management with participatory research 14

Common principles of participatory research 15

2 Navigating Complexity, Diversity and Dynamism: Reflections on Research for Natural Resource Management / Cynthia McDougall, Ann Braun 20

The challenge: complexity, diversity and dynamism in human and natural landscapes 21

Traditional and participatory research: key dimensions of difference 23

Diversity analysis in NRM research 28

Putting it together: reflections on navigating the research spectrum 33

3 Whose Research, Whose Agenda? / Adrienne Martin, Alistair Sutherland 48

Ownership at the macro level 49

Building ownership at the meso level: ownership and governance of communal resources 50

Ownership over the research process at the community level 52

Sustaining ownership throughout the research process 55

Ownership and sharing knowledge 56

Gender and stakeholder involvement 56

Motivation and ownership of technical innovation 58

Managing a complex process 58

4 Scaling Up and Out / Sieglinde Snapp, K L Heong 67

Situating natural resource management 69

The challenge of synthesizing NRM knowledge 71

Steps to scaling up: enhancing relevance and accountability 73

Is participation possible on a large scale? 74

Steps to scaling up: building quality partnerships 75

Scaling up participatory NRM to the watershed level 77

Beyond the watershed: the continuum of scaling up and out 78

Ways forward 81

5 Transforming Institutions to Achieve Innovation in Research and Development / Ann Stroud 88

Key elements and conditions to consider when fostering institutional change 93

Progress and future challenges 107

6 Principles for Good Practice in Participatory Research: Reflecting on Lessons from the Field / Ronnie Vernooy, Cynthia McDougall 113

Reflecting on practice 113

Understanding the research context 114

Towards good practice: shared learning from experience 117

Good practice in action: five case studies 119

Conclusions: a framework for reflection and change 135

Appendix 1 Principles and indicators of good practice in PR on NRM 136

Appendix 2 List of indicators of good practice generated at the Chatham meeting 137

7 Participatory Research, Natural Resource Management and Rural Transformation: More Lessons from the Field / Linden Vincent 142

Introduction: why learn lessons on participatory research? 142

Changing contexts of participatory research 145

PNRMR: why put agriculture into a resource perspective? 153

Building new interfaces for NRM 158

8 Participation in Context: What's Past, What's Present, and What's Next / Dianne E Rocheleau 169

Ethics, standards and professional peers 170

From participatory technology transfer to collaborative science 173

Context: sedentary science in place or a science situated in time and space 177

Beyond scaling up: crossing scales and envisioning futures 179

1 Participatory agroecosystem management

an approach used by benchmark location research teams in the African Highlands Initiative Eco-regional Programme / Ann Stroud 186

2 Participatory action research on adaptive collaborative management of community forests: A multi-country model / Cynthia McDougall, Ravi Prabhu, Yanti Kusumanto 189

3 The farmer-driven Landcare Movement: An institutional innovation with implications for extension and research / Dennis Garrity 192

4 The Farmer Research Group (CIAL) as a community-based natural resource management organization / Ann Braun 194

5 Long-term natural resource management research in intensive production systems: ICARDA's experience in Egypt / Richard Tutwiler 197

6 Management of Plant Genetic Resources in agroecosystems: in situ conservation on-farm / Devra Jarvis, Heather Klemick 199

7 Eastern Himalayan initiative on gender, ethnicity and agrobiodiversity management / Barun Gurung 202

8 Participatory selection and strategic use of multipurpose forages in hillsides of Central America / Michael Peters 205

9 Focus on integrating methods and approaches to increase gender/stakeholder involvement, collaborative management of natural resource management, and decision-making support / Peter Brinn 208

10 Farmer participatory experiments in pest management / K L Heong, M M Escalada 210

11 Farmers' ability to manage a devastating plant disease

potato late blight / Rebecca Nelson 212

12 Developing and implementing an innovative community approach to the control of bacterial wilt (Pseudomonas solanacearum) of potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) / Barry Pound 215

13 Participatory management of Kapuwai's wetland (Pallisa District, Uganda): A clear need and some steps towards fulfilling it / Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend 217

14 Participatory research at the landscape level: The Kumbhan water trough case / Czech Conroy, D V Rangnekar 221

15 Participatory research at landscape level: Flood-prone ecosystems in Bangladesh and Vietnam / Madan M Dey, Mark Prein 223

16 Water management, agricultural development and poverty eradication in the former Homelands of South Africa / Barbara van Koppen 226

17 Innovation in irrigation

working in a 'participation complex' / Linden Vincent, Puspa Khanal 228

18 Methods used to address resource issues in integrated watershed management in Nepalese watersheds / Hans Schreier, Sandra Brown, P B Shah 231

19 A comparison of farmer participatory research methods / Sieglinde Snapp 234

20 Soil and water conservation

historical and geographical perspectives on participation / Alistair Sutherland 237

21 Improving farmers' risk management strategies for resource-poor and drought-prone farming systems in southern Africa / Kit Vaughan, Zondai Shamudzarira 240

22 Participatory mapping, analysis and monitoring of the natural resource base in small watersheds: Insights from Nicaragua / Ronnie Vernooy, Noemi Espinoza 243

23 Observations on the use of information tools in participatory contexts: Access to information and empowerment / Jim Williams 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1844070263

1844070255

OCLC:

52160041