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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 ...
Watershed governance: livelihoods and resource competition in the mountains of mainland Southeast Asia
Type: Other
This paper examines the challenges of managing the upper watersheds of mainland Southeast Asia, taking local livelihoods and resource competition as its point of departure. The analysis presents the factors of change that ...
Strengthening governance across scales in aquatic agricultural systems
Type: Working Paper
Aquatic agricultural systems in developing countries face increasing competition from multiple stakeholders operating from local to national and regional scales over rights to access and use natural resources—land, water, ...
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. ...
Influence of built structures on local livelihoods: case studies of road development, irrigation and fishing lots
Type: Report
This report documents the results from an assessment of the influence of built structures on the livelihoods of Tonle Sap communities, as part of the livelihoods component of the “Study of the Influence of Built Structures ...
Undervalued and overlooked: sustaining rural livelihoods through better governance of wetlands
Type: Working Paper
Increasing awareness about wetlands is essential to improving their management, but it is not enough. Also needed are fundamental shifts in the ways that wetland resources are valued, and in the ways that decisions are ...