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This book presents cases from some of the poorest parts of Asia to illustrate how local innovations in participatory natural resource management can strengthen livelihoods, build capacity for local governance, and spark policy change. The book synthesizes results from a seven-year programme of applied research on community-based approaches to natural resource management in Asia. By presenting field reports of innovative approaches to poverty reduction and sustainable resource use, it provides practitioners with models of 'good practice' in participatory, community-based resource management, and it demonstrates how site-based research contributes to broader learning in the field of natural resource management and policy. The book features a foreword by Dr David Kaimowitz (a well known authority in the forestry field and former Director-General of CIFOR) and 11 case studies from some of the most marginal areas of rural China, Mongolia, Laos, Viet Nam, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Bhutan. The cases (each one authored by local researchers) illustrate lessons derived from the application of a participatory action research framework that engaged resource users, local governments, and researchers in collaborative learning. They illustrate practical innovations to strengthen livelihoods through improved collective resource management practices and broader technology choices. These experiences point to changes in well-being and empowerment for the rural poor. The comparative assessment and syntheses across cases demonstrate how local successes have led to reconsideration of policy assumptions, and to new ways of approaching rural poverty reduction, resource management, and local governance. The volume concludes that positive outcomes demonstrated in the participatory research cases come largely from practices of shared, adaptive learning through field-based assessment and action. Stephen R. Tyler is President, Adaptive Resource Management Ltd. He directed a program of action research for Community-Based NRM in Asia for 7 years, as program team leader with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and has worked with partners throughout Asia on applied research in the field of environment and development for 16 years. He served as consultant to Asian Development Bank, World Bank, CIDA, and other international organizations and has a PhD in City and Regional Planning from University of California, Berkeley. '...brings together an impressive set of action research studies [that] are clearly written and understandable. Both researchers and practitioners concerned with rural development will find the book to be a valuable source of lessons and inspiration.' Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute. 'This book is a timely contribution...[It] is particularly valuable since it contains a synthesis of actual field experiences derived from over 75 research projects...and should be widely read and used both by professional scholars and policy makers.' Professor M.S. Swaminathan, Chairman, National Commission on Farmers, Government of India.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Foreword Acknowledgements List of figures List of tables List of boxes Acronyms and abbreviations Biographies of authors Part I: 1 Introduction 1. Introduction: poverty and environment in practice 2. Community-based natural resource management: a research approach to rural poverty and environmental degradation Part II: Community-based natural resource management in action 3. Community-based natural resource management and decentralized governance in Ratanakiri, Cambodia 4. Participatory local planning for resource governance in the Tam Giang lagoon, Vietnam 5. Towards upland sustainable development: livelihood gains and resource management in central Vietnam 6. Co-management of Pastureland in Mongolia 7. Exclusion, accommodation and community-based natural resource management: legitimizing the enclosure of a community fishery in southern Laos Part III: From local action to policy impact 8. Building networks of support for community-based coastal resource management in Cambodia 9. Scaling up community-based natural resource management in Guizhou province, China 10. Walking the extra mile: from field learning to natural resource management research and policy in Bhutan 11. Strengthening local voices to inform national policy: community forestry in Cambodia 12. Harmonizing ancestral domain with local governance in the Cordillera of the northern Philippines 13. Shaping the key to fit the lock: participatory action research and community forestry in the Philippines Part IV: Poverty, community and policy impact in action research 14. Creating options for the poor through participatory research 15. Exclusive, moi? Natural resource management, poverty, inequality and gender in Asia 16. Community-based natural resource management communitiesin action 17. Shaping policy from the field 18. Conclusions: community-based natural resource management in action Notes References Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781780440101
  • Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Practical Action Publishing
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Action Research and Policy Change in Asia
  • ISBN-10: 1780440103
  • Publisher Date: 15 Dec 2006
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 456


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