Books in the Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management series

Presenting a broad range of case studies, this book explores rural social movements contesting natural resource development initiatives.

Why, despite an emphasis on 'getting institutions right', do development initiatives so infrequently deliver as planned? This book disputes the model of development by design and argues that institutions are formed through the uneven patching together of old practices and accepted norms with new arrangements.

UNESCO Biosphere Reserves are geographical regions of global socio-ecological significance, they are designated within UNESCO¿s Man and Biosphere Programme forming an international, intergovernmental network. This book shows their global relevance and outlines lessons learned about biocultural diversity, sustainability, and society.

Providing both a theoretical background and practical examples of natural resource conflict, this volume explores the pressures on natural resources leading to scarcity and conflict.

There are common themes among the various adaptive and collaborative approaches to natural resource management, and the purpose of this book is to showcase, review and foster these similarities. In doing so, a clear theoretical approach is established and practical methodologies identified for combining and implementing different systems of knowledge effectively.

Following a decade of research by the African Highlands Initiative, this book documents and summarizes the experiences of farmers, research and development workers, policy and decision makers who have interacted within an innovation system aiming to operationalize an approach to Integrated Natural Resource Management. Crucially it demonstrates importance of `approach¿ in the results, and the lessons to be learned from this.

The aim of this book is to highlight the role that gender research can play in understanding natural resource management and rural development issues in the Middle East and North Africa region and how hands-on training and mentoring can be used as a capacity enhancement approach.

Natural resource governance is critical for linking poverty reduction and sustainable natural resource use. This book brings together authors from various disciplines with extensive field experience to promote an integrative understanding of cross-scale and adaptive governance in Africa and Latin America.

The research presented in this book demonstrates how an integrated `systems¿ approach to farming in the watershed context increases the effectiveness of a production system and improves people¿s livelihoods. It takes an integrated approach, using one watershed in Ethiopia as a `laboratory¿ or model case study to focus on the interaction and interdependence between land, water, crops, soil, water harvesting, supplemental irrigation, forestry, socio-economic aspects, livestock and farm tools.

In recent years the "nexus" has emerged as a powerful concept to capture inter-linkages of resources and is now a key feature of policy-making. This book is one of the first to provide a broad overview of both the science behind the nexus and the implications for policies and sustainable development.

In recent years the "nexus" has emerged as a powerful concept to capture inter-linkages of resources and is now a key feature of policy-making. This book is one of the first to provide a broad overview of both the science behind the nexus and the implications for policies and sustainable development.

It is increasingly recognized that land can be managed most sustainably through involving local communities. This book highlights the potential of a new methodology of uncovering and stimulating community initiatives in sustainable land management in Africa.