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Sustainability as a dialogue of values: Challenges to the sociology of development
Type: Book Chapter
Even in an increasingly polarized climate of global policy-making, the ideal of “sustainable development” retains currency across a remarkably broad swath of the political spectrum in debating alternative scenarios for the ...
A Governance analysis of the Barotse Floodplain System, Zambia: Identifying obstacles and opportunities
Type: Working Paper
The 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 ...
Solomon Islands: Essential aspects of governance for Aquatic Agricultural Systems in Malaita Hub
Type: Working Paper
In late 2012, a governance assessment was carried out as part of the diagnosis phase of rollout of the CGIAR Aquatic Agricultural Systems Program in Malaita Hub in Solomon Islands. The purpose of the assessment was to ...
Governance of aquatic agricultural systems: Analyzing representation, power, and accountability
Type: Journal Article
Aquatic agricultural systems in developing countries face increasing competition from multiple stakeholders over rights to access and use natural resources, land, water, wetlands, and fisheries, essential to rural livelihoods. ...
Addressing conflict through collective action in natural resource management: A Synthesis of experience
Type: Working Paper
The 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 ...
Resource conflict, collective action, and resilience: an analytical framework
Type: Journal Article
Where access to renewable natural resources essential to rural livelihoods is highly contested, improving cooperation in resource management is an important element in strategies for peacebuilding and conflict prevention. ...