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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"community-based natural resource management"”.
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COMMUNITY-BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: GROUP CAPACITY, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND ASSESSING SUCCESS
… within the U.S. and abroad. The conservation and natural resource literature has touted these initiatives as more effective when compared to top-down management efforts. As localities are given more responsibility for managing their own natural resources, their ability to do so effectively has …
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Looking after country : examining conditions for effective community-based natural resource management in Aboriginal Australia
Over the last few decades Aboriginal land management (ALM) has received increased interest and investment as a strategy to both conserve Australia's environment and assist in improving Aboriginal livelihoods. Yet thirty years of international community based natural resource management (CBNRM) …
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Looking after country : examining conditions for effective community-based natural resource management in Aboriginal Australia
Over the last few decades Aboriginal land management (ALM) has received increased interest and investment as a strategy to both conserve Australia's environment and assist in improving Aboriginal livelihoods. Yet thirty years of international community based natural resource management (CBNRM) …
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Community-based natural resource management: The case of Community Forest Management Areas in Pete, Zanzibar
The shift from centralised conservation to Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) was the highlight of the conservation discourse across the world during the late 1980s and early 1990s. CBNRM efforts were believed to have the potential of successfully merging biodiversity conservation …
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Capacity development for local participation in community based natural resource management of Namibia : the #Khoadi //Hôas conservancy experience
Namibia’s community based natural resource management program (CBNRM) integrates local participation in rural development and biodiversity conservation. This effort was launched through key legislation that devolved the right to manage wildlife and other renewable resources on communal lands from …
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Social Capital and Vanua: Challenges to Governance Development in a Community-Based Natural Resource Management Project in Cuvu Tikina, Fiji Islands
… linked to their position as land and resource owners. This is summed up in the dual meaning of the term ‘vanua’, which literally means land but also symbolizes the cultural and socio-political traditions of the people. These traditions form the basis of Fiji’s natural resource …
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Social Capital and Vanua: Challenges to Governance Development in a Community-Based Natural Resource Management Project in Cuvu Tikina, Fiji Islands
… linked to their position as land and resource owners. This is summed up in the dual meaning of the term ‘vanua’, which literally means land but also symbolizes the cultural and socio-political traditions of the people. These traditions form the basis of Fiji’s natural resource …
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Sustainable rural livelihoods and biodiversity conservation in Swaziland : an integrated conservation and Natural Resource Management approach as an alternative livelihood strategy for Swazi Nation Land
… a holistic approach, seeks to use the Shewula community initiative as a pilot project for establishing more effective biodiversity conservation and natural resource management initiatives/programmes on Swazi Nation Land (SNL). A new conceptual framework is proposed for integrating …
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Forests and Farming: An analysis of rural livelihood programs for poverty reduction in eastern Zambia
… investigates the effectiveness of Joint Forest Management (JFM) and agricultural programs at reducing rural poverty in Zambia. Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programs in Africa have been aimed at improving livelihoods, creating tangible benefits, and increasing incomes from …
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Forests and Farming: An analysis of rural livelihood programs for poverty reduction in eastern Zambia
… investigates the effectiveness of Joint Forest Management (JFM) and agricultural programs at reducing rural poverty in Zambia. Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programs in Africa have been aimed at improving livelihoods, creating tangible benefits, and increasing incomes from …
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Trading solidarity for environmentality: subject formation and intimate government of forests in Kaolack Region, Senegal
Community-based natural resource management projects widely fail to meet their stated goals. But what do such interventions and policies actually achieve? How do they alter the practices and consciousness of the people whom they involve in management? Drawing on work on environmentality, this …
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Impacts of commercialising Commiphora wildii in two conservancies in North Western Namibia
… Puros and Orupembe registered conservancies and community forests, which are part of the Namibian government’s community based natural resource management (CBNRM) programme. Commiphora wildii is used traditionally by the Himba as a perfume in a daily beauty ritual. The aim of this research is to …
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Beyond Community: "Global" Conservation Networks and "Local" Organization in Tanzania and Zanzibar
… through the specific analytical lens of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). CBNRM is an undertaking which is fundamentally local but also integrally connected to transnational conservation ideology and national structures of authority. While recent critiques of …
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Determination of factors impacting the performance of the CBNRM programme in Botswana
… which factors contribute to the performance of Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) programme in Botswana. The Botswana Government initiated the CBNRM programme as a means of encouraging sustainable use of natural resources and eradicating poverty. Previous researchers have found …
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Adoption of sustainable forestry practices by Non-Industrial Private Forest owners in Virginia
The concept of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) has been promoted in the past few decades all over the world. Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners play an important role in that aspect in the U.S. because of their number (about 16 millions), the size of forest land under their control …
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Conservancies as a vehicle for achieving sustainable development : with reference to a case study in the Nyae-Nyae area of Eastern Otjozonjupa, Namibia
This dissertation is based on the theoretical assumption that in order for conservation to be achievable it must go hand in hand with development, without undermining development of the environment continuing to degrade. At Independence, Namibia inherited a number of environmental and developmental …
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Genealogies and narratives of San authenticities the ?Khomani San land claim in the southern Kalahari
… issues, ranging from livelihoods to governance, community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), identity and ethnicity, and common property debates. The study begins with a brief introduction to the richly textured and highly contested debates and analytical issues concerning the San. Among …
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Africa's ‘miracle state'? the intersection of political leaders and non-state actors in the greening of Botswana through wildlife
… the ecotourism enterprise within the context of community-based natural resource management initiative.
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A critical analysis of the legal framework regulating indigenous and community conserved areas in Namibia
… are one the key methods of preventing natural resource degradation by excluding humans from accessing certain sensitive areas, or by regulating the activities within these areas. Protected areas are viewed as essential for conserving the biodiversity on which the human race depends. …
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Landuse practices interface:Human-Wildlife conflict in Lupande game management area
… and potentially endangered species. Lupande Game Management Area (LGMA) in Mambwe District has not been left out in this conflict which has come up as a result of competition for resources between humans and wild animals. The study objectives were to identify the current landuses in LGMA, to show …
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