ABSTRACT
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 authors make the case for reaching beyond decentralization to promote adaptive governance that serves local priorities, but through interactions with local, district, national and global governance structures. The book focuses on the governance of common pool resources such as forests, wildlife, water, carbon and pasture resources in both Africa and Latin America.
This book will appeal to development practitioners and scholars concerned about the conservation of natural resources and the sustainable development of communities. It synthesizes experience with the governance of different natural resources from a broad geographic perspective. It also provides theoretical and practical suggestions for taking adaptive natural resource governance forward, including participatory methods for measuring and monitoring governance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|20 pages
Introduction and definition of natural resource governance
part II|32 pages
Property rights and natural resource governance
chapter 4|18 pages
Examining the role of property rights and forest policy in forest governance
part III|77 pages
Global and national scale governance of natural resources
chapter 6|27 pages
National and transnational land grabs in Africa
part IV|72 pages
Meso-level and cross-scalar natural resource governance
chapter 8|22 pages
Cross-scalar governance and the role of the meso level
chapter 9|24 pages
Governing an intangible natural resource
chapter 10|24 pages
Elite capture
part V|60 pages
Measuring and monitoring governance
part VI|38 pages
Towards participatory and adaptive governance