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Lessons from implementing, adapting and sustaining community-based adaptive marine resource management
Type: Brief
Community-based marine resource management is recognized by the Government of Solomon Islands as the principle strategy for use in marine conservation and small-scale fisheries management. This strategy is particularly ...
Dialogue to address the roots of resource competition: Lessons for policy and practice
Type: Report
Conflict 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 ...
Innovations to strengthen aquatic resource governance on Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake
Type: Report
Cambodia's recent freshwater fishery sector reform, instigated at the top level of government, is one of the country's most significant contemporary policy developments addressing natural resources management and rural ...
From conflict to collaboration in natural resource management: A handbook and toolkit for practitioners working in aquatic resource systems
Type: Manual
Natural resource management is closely linked to conflict management, prevention and resolution. Managing natural resources involves reconciling diverging interests that often lead to conflict, which can undermine management ...
Engaging the private sector to address conflict in natural resource management
Type: Brief
International investments in agroindustry present a growing source of tension for local populations who rely on land, forests, water and fisheries for their livelihoods, particularly where local tenure security is put at ...
Supporting gender-inclusive dialogue over natural resource management
Type: Brief
Rural households who fail to gain a voice in decisions over the management of shared forests, pasturelands, wetlands and fisheries face heightened risks to their livelihoods, particularly as competition increases between ...
Collaborating for Resilience: A practitioner's guide
Type: Manual
In 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 ...
Strengthening collective action to address resource conflict in Lake Kariba, Zambia
Type: Report
Where natural resources are a key component of the rural economy, the ability of the poor to realize their visions for the future depends significantly on institutional structures that govern resource access and management. ...
Investing in collaboration to manage environmental resource conflict
Type: Brief
Conflict over environmental resources endangers rural people's livelihoods and can increase the risk of broader social conflict. Yet action to sustain shared resources can also be a potent source of community building. ...
Collaborative dialogue to support local institutions in natural resource co-management
Type: Brief
Co-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 ...