Democratic decentralisation through a natural resource lens
By: edited by Jesse C. Ribot and Anne M. Larson
Contributors: Ribot, Jesse Craig; Larson, Anne M; European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Natural resources -- Management; Environmental management -- Citizen participation; Environmental policy -- Decision making; Decentralization in government
Other titles: Democratic decentralization through a natural resource lense
Notes: Published "in association with EADI, European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, Bonn."

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Democratic decentralisation through a natural resource lens: an introduction / Anne M. Larson and Jesse C. Ribot; title: Between micro-politics and administrative imperatives: decentralisation and the watershed mission in Madhya Pradesh, India / Amita Baviskar; title: Decentralisation when land and resource rights are deeply contested: a case study of the Mkambati eco-tourism project on the Wild coast of South Africa / Ben Cousins and Thembela Kepe; title: Formal decentralisation and the imperative of decentralisation 'from below': a case study of natural resource management in Nicaragua / Anne Larson; title: Democratic decentralisation and traditional authority: dilemmas of land administration in rural South Africa / Lungisile Ntsebeza; title: What lies behind decentralisation? forest, powers and actors in lowland Bolivia / Pablo Pacheco; title: Closer to people and trees: will decentralisation work for the people and the forests of Indonesia? / Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo; title: Decentralisation, rural livelihoods and pasture-land management in post-socialist Mongolia / Robin Mearns; title: Decentralisation and accountability in forest management: a case from Yunnan, Southwest China / Jianchu Xu and Jesse C. Ribot; title: The social and organisational roots of ecological uncertainties in Cameroon's forest management decentralisation model / Phil Reno Oyono; title: User committees: a potentially damaging second wave of decentralisation? / James Manor; title: Decentralising water resource management in Brazil / Christian Brannstrom; title: Decentralising natural resource management: a recipe for sustainability and equity? / Wicky Meynen and Martin Doornbos