Rethinking resource management : justice, sustainability and indigenous peoples / Richard Howitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howitt, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Case studies.

Indigenous peoples.

Sustainable development--Case studies.

Sustainable development.

Natural resources--Management--Case studies.

Natural resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 446p. ) ill., maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This guide offers students and practitioners in resource management a convincing framework for rethinking the dominant approaches to resource management in a complex world.

This book offers students and practitioners a sophisticated and convincing framework for rethinking the usual approaches to resource management. It uses case studies to argue that professional resource managers do not take responsibility for the social and environmental consequences of their decisions on the often vulnerable indigenous communities they affect. It also discusses the invisibility of indigenous people' values and knowledge within traditional resource management. It offers a new approach to social impact assessment methods which are more participatory and empowering. The book employs a range of case studies from Australia, North America and Norway. This book offers students and practitioners a sophisticated and convincing framework for rethinking the usual approaches to resource management. It uses case studies to argue that professional resource managers do not take responsibility for the social and environmental consequences of their decisions on the often vulnerable indigenous communities they affect. It also discusses the invisibility of indigenous people' values and knowledge within traditional resource management. It offers a new approach to social impact assessment methods which are more participatory and empowering. The book employs a range of case studies from Australia, North America and Norway.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction (and Disorientation) 1: Worlds Turned Upside Down Part II: Ways of Seeing 2: The Problem of 'Seeing' Part III: Ways of Thinking 3: Complexity in Resource Management Systems: Conceptualizing Abstractions and Internal Relations; 4: Beyond 'Negotiation': Rethinking Conceptual Building Blocks; 5: Reading Landscapes: Cartesian Geographies or Places of the Heart?; 6: Ethics for Resource Managers Part IV: Case Studies 7: Case Studies: A Tool in Research for Resource Management; 8: Recognition, Respect and Reconciliation: Changing Relations Between Aborigines and Mining Interests in Australia; 9: Dependent Nations or Sovereign Governments? Treaties, Governance and Resources in the USA; 10: Indigenous Rights of States' Rights: Hyrdopower in Norway and Quebec Part V: Ways of Doing 11: Diversity and World Order: Professional Practice and Resource Managers; 12: Social Impact Assessment; 13: Policy Arenas: Reform, Regulation and Monitoring; 14: Co-Management of Local Resources Part VI: From Theory to Praxis 15: Sustainability, Equity and Optimism

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-80566-7

1-134-80567-5

1-280-32313-2

0-203-29184-0

0-203-22102-8

9780203221020

OCLC:

50295812