Rights Resources and Rural Development: Community-based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844070093 ISBN 13: 9781844070091

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is an approach that offers multiple related benefits: securing rural livelihoods; ensuring careful conservation and management of biodiversity and other resources; and empowering communities to manage these resources sustainably. Recently, however, the CBNRM concept has attracted criticism for failing in its promise of delivering significant local improvements and conserving biodiversity in some contexts.

This book identifies the flaws in its application, which often have been swept under the carpet by those involved in the initiatives. The authors analyse them, and propose remedies for specific circumstances based on the lessons learned from CBNRM experience in southern Africa over more than a decade.

The result is essential reading for all researchers, observers and practitioners who have focused on CBNRM in sustainable development programmes as a means to overcome poverty and conserve ecosystems in various parts of the globe. It is a vital tool in improving their methods and performance. In addition, academics, students and policy-makers in natural resource management, resource economics, resource governance and rural development will find it a very valuable and instructive resource.

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About the Author

Christo Fabricius is Professor of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, South Africa. Eddie Koch is a Director of Mafisa Research and Planning, South Africa. Hector Magome is Director of Conservation Services at South African National Parks. Stephen Turner works at the Centre for Cooperation, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844070093
• ISBN 13: 9781844070091
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Magome Hector, Koch Eddie, Fabricius Christo, Turner Stephen