Browsing by Author "Ratner, B.D."
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A Governance analysis of the Barotse Floodplain System, Zambia: Identifying obstacles and opportunities
(2013)Type: Working PaperThe Barotse floodplain is an ecosystem characterized by a paradox of widespread poverty amidst high ecological and agricultural potential. The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) seeks to address ... -
A rights-based perspective on adaptive capacity
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleWhilst it is increasingly recognised that socio-political contexts shape climate change adaptation decisions and actions at all scales, current modes of development typically fail to recognise or adequately challenge these ... -
A typology of fisheries management tools: using experience to catalyse greater success
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleFisheries provide nutrition and livelihoods for coastal populations, but many fisheries are fully or over-exploited and we lack an approach for analysing which factors affect management tool performance. We conducted a ... -
Addressing conflict through collective action in natural resource management
(2017)Type: Journal ArticleThe food security crisis and international "land grabs" have drawn renewed attention to the role of natural resource competition in the livelihoods of the rural poor. While significant empirical research has focused on ... -
Addressing conflict through collective action in natural resource management: A Synthesis of experience
(2013)Type: Working PaperThe food security crisis, international “land grabs,” and new markets for environmental services have drawn renewed attention to the role of natural resource competition in the livelihoods of the rural poor. While significant ... -
Addressing the coral reef crisis in developing countries.
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleCoral reefs, the storehouses of much of the world’s marine biodiversity, and the source of many socioeconomic benefits, are in decline worldwide. The causes of the ‘coral reef crisis’ are complex but there is general ... -
Building coalitions across sectors and scales in Cambodia
(2011)Type: Book ChapterBased on a comparative analysis of efforts by community groups, as well as domestic and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working to assist forest-dependent communities, this chapter explores the practical ... -
Building resilience in rural livelihood systems as an investment in conflict prevention
(2015)Type: Book ChapterThis book explores how natural resource management initiatives in more than twenty countries and territories have supported livelihoods and facilitated post-conflict peacebuilding. This chapter sketches three principles ... -
Catalyzing collective action to address natural resource conflict: lessons from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake
(2011)Type: Working PaperThis paper reports on outcomes and lessons learned from a 15-month initiative aimed at strengthening collective action to address natural resource conflict in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake. Employing the Appreciation-Influence-Control ... -
Colaboración para la creación de resiliencia: una guía para profesionales
(2016)Type: ManualColaborating for Resilience tiene como objetivo catalizar el cambio institucional a fin de abordar desafíos comunes en la gestión de los recursos naturales. En este manual se presenta un método para organizar el diálogo,emprender ... -
Collaborating for Resilience: A practitioner's guide
(2014)Type: ManualIn many countries, resource conflict is a leading risk to livelihoods. For some communities, it is a matter of survival. Yet, many development interventions aiming to address these challenges fail or fall far short of their ... -
Collaborating for resilience: conflict, collective action, and transformation on Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake
(2014)Type: Journal ArticleTha authors report on outcomes and lessons learned from a 15-month initiative in Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake. Employing the appreciation-influence-control (AIC) model of participatory stakeholder engagement, the initiative ... -
Collaborative dialogue to support local institutions in natural resource co-management
(2014)Type: BriefCo-management of natural resources entails sharing authority and responsibility among government agencies, industry associations and community-based institutions. Policymakers and development agencies have embraced the ... -
Collaborative governance assessment
(2012)Type: ManualThis Guidance Note presents a simple approach to analyzing the governance context for development of aquatic agricultural systems; it is intended as an aid to action research, and a contribution to effective program planning ... -
Common-pool resources, livelihoods, and resilience: critical challenges for governance in Cambodia
(2011)Type: Working PaperCommon-pool resource management is a critical element in the interlocked challenges of food security, nutrition, poverty reduction, and environmental sustainability. This paper examines strategic policy choices and governance ... -
Community Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam ( by Dara O'Rourke)
(2005)Type: Journal ArticleIn Community-Driven Regulation, Dara O’Rourke focuses his attention on the other end of the spectrum of civic action, the local level. O’Rourke offers a detailed set of cases from Vietnam that demonstrate how pressure from ... -
Conflict and collective action in Tonle Sap fisheries: adapting governance to support community livelihoods
(2017)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper presents the results of action research conducted from 2009 to 2015 on the dynamics of resource conflict concerning fisheries and livelihoods in the Tonle Sap Lake, as well as the institutional context and ... -
Coping with disaster: rehabilitating coastal livelihoods and communities
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper examines lessons from past approaches to natural disasters, as well as early lessons from the post-2004 Asian tsunami rehabilitation, to draw out general principles for rehabilitating livelihoods in poor coastal ... -
Diagnosis and management of small-scale fisheries in developing countries
(2007)Type: Journal ArticleSmall-scale fisheries (SSF) make important but undervalued contributions to the economies of some of the world’s poorest countries. They also provide much of the animal protein needed by societies in which food security ... -
Dialogue to address the roots of resource competition: Lessons for policy and practice
(2014)Type: ReportConflict management is an intrinsic element of natural resource management, and becomes increasingly important amid growing pressure on natural resources from local uses, as well as from external drivers such as climate ...
