ABSTRACT
We set out in this book to illustrate the cross-scalar nature of governance and to explore governance arrangements across a range of different resources. We also wanted to illuminate some of the key problems facing NRG, such as elite capture, land grabbing and recentralization efforts that have created obstacles to adaptive forms of governance. In the process of working on the book, property rights emerged as a critical and enabling component of governance. We also explicitly tried to include governance experiences in both Africa and Latin America in the continued belief that these two continents can learn from one another. But our key agenda in this book was to advance the concept of cross-scalar and adaptive governance by bringing together a group of scholar-practitioners with a broad reach of experience in different cultural contexts.
