Communities, livelihoods and natural resources action research and policy change in Asia / edited by Stephen Tyler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tyler, Stephen.

Contributor:

International Development Research Centre (Canada)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Asia.

Environmental policy.

Natural resources--Asia.

Natural resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (451 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

4. Participatory local planning for resource governance in the Tam Giang lagoon, Vietnam

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

Introduction and background

The project site

Our participatory research approach

Improving the material livelihoods of the upland poor

Building assets

6. Co-management of Pastureland in Mongolia

Background

Project objectives and study sites

Working for co-management

Changes and outcomes

Lessons learned and conclusions

7. Exclusion, accommodation and community-based natural resource management: legitimizing the enclosure of a community fishery in southern Laos

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

The PMMR team and coastal villages

International and regional partnerships

Networking in Asia and Canada

Understanding the national policy context

9. Scaling up community-based natural resource management in Guizhou province, China

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

10. Walking the extra mile: from field learning to natural resource management research and policy in Bhutan

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

11. Strengthening local voices to inform national policy: community forestry in Cambodia

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

12. Harmonizing ancestral domain with local governance in the Cordillera of the northern Philippines

The ancestral domain of traditional communities

Formulating the ADMP

Other elements of the management plan

Impact and consequences: when communities take over

13. Shaping the key to fit the lock: participatory action research and community forestry in the Philippines

The learning context

Methodological concerns and early lessons

The key does not fit the lock

Linking people to policy

Coming full circle

Reflections

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

15. Exclusive, moi? Natural resource management, poverty, inequality and gender in Asia

Trends in poverty, inequality, and governance in Asia

Conceptual issues.

Inequality, poverty and gender: evidence from the field

16. CBNRM communities in action

Critical perspectives

Constructing communities

CBNRM communities in action

Evaluation and new directions

17. Shaping policy from the field

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

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

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-71827-7

9786610718276

1-55250-230-9

OCLC:

144143010