ABSTRACT
Community management of natural resources is well accepted and supported by many field
experiences as an effective way to improve people’s well-being while maintaining their natural
resource base. This approach to natural resource management has been reasonably achieved
within some community groups and even occasionally in the community as a whole.
Nonetheless, there are few successful experiences or instances at multicommunity or regional
levels (e.g., landscape, district, or similar), despite the assumption that reaching this level is
essential to achieve community effective management and=or intervention in regard to natural resource processes taking place on a larger scale (e.g., water management, biodiversity conserva-
tion, etc.). While some planning and implementation at this scale have been attempted by
governmental organizations and international projects, success has been difficult to achieve as
work at a regional or multi-community level using processes led by local community-based
organizations pose additional challenges.
