Description: Sustainable Governance of Wildlife and Community-Based Natural Resource ManagementFrom Economic Principles to Practical Governance Author(s): Brian Child Format: Paperback Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Routledge ISBN-13: 9780415793292, 978-0415793292 Synopsis This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM). It provides practical examples of successes and failures in implementation, and lessons about the economics and governance of wild resources with global application. CBNRM emerged in the 1980s, encouraging greater local participation to conserve and manage natural and wild resources in the face of increasing encroachment by agricultural and other forms of land use development. This book describes the institutional history of wildlife and the empirical transformation of the wildlife sector on private and communal land, particularly in southern Africa, to develop an alternative paradigm for governing wild resources. With the twin goals of addressing poverty and resource degradation in the world's extensive agriculturally marginal areas, the author conceptualises this paradigm as the Sustainable Governance Approach, which integrates theories of proprietorship and rights, prices and economics, governance and scale, and adaptive learning. The author then discusses and defines CBNRM, a major subset of this approach. Interweaving theory and practice, he shows that the primary challenges facing CBNRM are the devolution of rights from the centre to marginal communities and the governance of these rights by communities, a challenge which is seldom recognised or addressed. He focuses on this shortcoming, extending and operationalising institutional theory, including Ostrom's principles of collective action, within the context of cross-scale governance. Based on the author's extensive experience this book will be key reading for students of natural resource management, sustainable land use, community forestry, conservation, and development. Providing practical but theoretically robust tools for implementing CBNRM it will also appeal to professionals and practitioners working in communities and in conservation and development.
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Book Title: Sustainable Governance of Wildlife and Community-Based Natural...
Number of Pages: 382 Pages
Publication Name: Sustainable Governance of Wildlife and Community-Based Natural Resource Management: From Economic Principles to Practical Governance
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Item Height: 246 mm
Subject: Geography & Geosciences, Sustainability, Biology, Management
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 721 g
Author: Brian Child
Item Width: 174 mm
Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
Format: Paperback
