Volume 28, Issue 4
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Methods for Environmental Entitlements Analysis
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary This article examines practical methods which can assist the application of the environmental entitlements approach to field?based situations. It introduces a ‘toolbox’ of methods relevant to livelihood analysis, ... -
Challenges to Community?Based Sustainable Development: Dynamics, Entitlements, Institutions
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary Recent approaches to community?based natural resource management frequently present ‘communities’ as consensual units, able to act collectively in restoring population?resource imbalances or reestablishing harmonious ... -
Editorial: Community?Based Sustainable Development: Consensus or Conflict?
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Representing Communities: The Case of a Community?Based Watershed Management Project in Rajas than, India
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary In India donors, governmental and non?governmental organisations (NGOs) are currently investing heavily in participatory watershed development, yet with only partial success. Focusing on a community?based watershed ... -
Local Resource Management in the Forest? Savanna Transition Zone: The Case of Wenchi District, Ghana
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary In Ghana's forest?savanna transition zone, recent ecological debates counterpose the dominant view that human activities cause progressive savannisation of forests, with competing views that the forest?savanna ... -
Communities, Entitlements and Nature Reserves: The Case of the Wild Coast, South Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary ‘Community?based sustainable development’ has become central to the development rhetoric of the new South Africa, whereby local communities are expected to be involved in decisions from which they were previously ... -
How Do Rights Become Real?: Formal and Informal Institutions in South Africa's Land Reform
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary Central components of South Africa's post?apartheid land reform comprise ambitious and wide?ranging ‘rights?based’ laws and programmes. But how do legally defined rights to resources become effective command over ... -
Conflicts Around Forest Reserves in Zimbabwe: What Prospects for Community Management?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary Due to the failure of the post?independent state to address the land inequities of the colonial era, conflicts over land resources are prevalent in Zimbabwe. This is particularly the case in and around state forest ... -
Social Difference and Water Resource Management: Insights from Kutch, india
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary The article focuses on the interface between water resources management and social and power relations. It shows that the propagators of both macro and micro?level water interventions have flawed notions of local ... -
Institutions, Consensus and Conflict: Implications for Policy and Practice
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1997)Summary This article reflects on the challenges faced when the ideal of consensual communities is questioned. A more complex view of institutional relationships at the local level is envisaged, one which emphasises conflict ...
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