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Colaboración para la creación de resiliencia: una guía para profesionales
Colaborating 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 acciones conjuntas y ...
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Collaborating for Resilience: A practitioner’s guide
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 potential. Common reasons ...
Type: Publication
Dialogue to address the roots of resource competition: Lessons for policy and practice
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 change and international investment ...
Type: Publication
From conflict to collaboration in natural resource management: A handbook and toolkit for practitioners working in aquatic resource systems
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 institutions and lead to ...
Type: Publication
Innovations to strengthen aquatic resource governance on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake
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 development. Implemented in two main ...
Type: Publication
Strengthening community roles in aquatic resource governance in Uganda
Lake Victoria fisheries face severe environmental stresses. Stocks are declining in a context of increasing population and growing demand for the lake’s resources. Rising competition between users is putting conservation goals and rural livelihoods at ...
Type: Publication
Methods of consensus building for community-based fisheries management in Bangladesh and the Mekong Delta
A method of consensus building for management of wetlands and fisheries using a systematic approach to participatory planning and initially developed in Bangladesh is now being applied in both Bangladesh and the Mekong delta. The method recognizes ...
Type: Publication
Resource conflict, collective action, and resilience: an analytical framework
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. While researchers have made ...
Type: Publication
Sustainability and on farm experiments: ways to exploit participatory and systems concepts
On farm experimentation (OFE) requires rethinking if it is to contribute to our understanding of sustainability. More holistic and farmer participatory approaches are essential to cope with the problems presented by the diverse and complex systems common ...
Type: Publication
Evaluation of seagrass planting and monitoring techniques: implications for assessing restoration success and habitat equivalency
Restoration has become an integral part of coastal management as a result of seagrass habitat loss. We studied restoration of the seagrass (Halodule wrightii) near Tampa Bay, Florida. Experimental plots were established in June 2002 using four planting ...
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