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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Turner, Stephen |
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Conference:
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The Commons in an Age of Global Transition: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities, the Tenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property |
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Location:
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Oaxaca, Mexico |
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Conf. Date:
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August 9-13 |
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Date:
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2004 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1313
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Sector:
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General & Multiple Resources |
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Region:
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Africa |
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Subject(s):
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IASC
common pool resources
CBRM
resource management--policy
co-management
conservation
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Abstract:
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"Is there a crisis in community-based natural resource management in southern Africa? Should social scientists care? Do they, or anyone else, need to affirm the commons in the region? If so, what contribution can they make? This paper tries to answer these questions. It must begin by exploring what community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) actually is. It argues that community-based nature conservation, despite its prominence, is only one thread in the much broader fabric of rural governance and livelihoods that constitutes CBNRM across the region. It then summarises southern African experience with community-based nature conservation in order to consider whether there is a crisis in that particular kind of CBNRM. It goes on to explore the broader condition of CBNRM as a whole in this part of Africa, in order to establish whether there is a more fundamental crisis in the sector; whether it matters; and what common property scholarship might do about it. In the process, it aims to offer a broader view of CBNRM in southern Africa, and a more accurate perspective of perceived crises affecting it."
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