ABSTRACT In the past few years scholarly discussions have characterized indigenous knowledge as a significant resource for development. This article interrogates concept of and strategies its advocates present to promote The suggests that both knowledge, role in development, are problematic issues currently conceptualized. To productively engage we must go beyond dichotomy vs. scientific, work towards greater autonomy ‘indigenous’ peoples.

▪ Abstract This chapter reviews the literature relevant to environmental governance in four domains of scholarship: globalization, decentralization, market and individual incentives-based governance, cross-scale governance. It argues that view complexity multiscalar character many most pressing problems, conventional debates focused on pure modes governance–where state or actors play leading role–fall short capacity needed address them. The review highlights emerging hybrid across...

National governments in almost all developing countries have begun to decentralize policies and decision making related development, public services, the environment. Existing research on subject has enhanced our understanding of effects decentralization thereby been an effective instrument advocacy decentralization. But most analyses, especially where environmental resources are concerned, less attentive political coalitions that prompt role property rights facilitating implementation...

Major features of contemporary forest governance include decentralization management, logging concessions in publicly owned commercially valuable forests, and timber certification, primarily temperate forests. Although a majority forests continue to be formally by governments, the effectiveness is increasingly independent formal ownership. Growing competing demands for food, biofuels, timber, environmental services will pose severe challenges effective future, especially conjunction with...

This paper examines how and for what reasons rural residents come to care about the environment. Focusing on Kumaon, India, it explores deep durable relationship between government subjectivity shows regulatory strategies associated with resulting from community decision making help transform those who participate in government. Using evidence drawn archival record fieldwork conducted over two time periods, analyzes extent which varying levels of involvement institutional regimes...

▪ Abstract This paper presents a critical assessment of the field common property. After discussing briefly major findings and accomplishments scholarship on commons, pursues two strategies critique. The first strategy friendly critique accepts basic assumptions most writings property to show that scholars commons have discovered far more variables potentially affect resource management than is possible analyze carefully. identifies some potential means address problem too many variables....

Forests provide multiple benefits at local to global scales. These include the public good of carbon sequestration and national level contributions livelihoods for more than half a billion users. Forest commons are particularly important class forests generating these benefits. Institutional arrangements govern forest believed substantially influence storage livelihood contributions, especially when they incorporate knowledge decentralized decision making. However, hypothesized relationships...

A major new approach to emissions mitigation may interrupt a promising trend toward decentralized forest management.

Causal pathways to achieve social and ecological benefits from forests are unclear, because there few systematic multicountry empirical analyses that identify important factors their complex relationships with outcomes. This study examines biodiversity conservation forest-based livelihood outcomes using a data set on 84 sites six countries in East Africa South Asia. We find both positive negative relationships, leading joint wins, losses, trade-offs depending specific contextual factors;...

Protected areas in tropical countries are managed under different governance regimes, the relative effectiveness of which avoiding deforestation has been subject recent debates. Participants these debates answer appeals for more strict protection with argument that sustainable use and indigenous lands can balance pressures by leveraging local support to create enforce protective regulations. Which strategy is effective also depend on ( i ) level an area exposed ii intensity government...

protestations vary in the evidence, conviction, and passion with which they are made.The criticism that blunts moral ethical focus on biodiversity conservation is highlights misery programs impose people.If strategies distress human populations, especially those who less powerful, politically marginalized, poor, little conservationists argue behalf of makes sense.A spate recent publications appearing both academic popular press overwhelms precisely this ground (Chatty & Colchester...

Abstract An investigation of the effects various physical properties, drop size, and velocity on shape was carried out for nonoscillating liquid drops falling through stationary continuous phases. The data forty‐five dispersed‐continuous phase systems were studied with viscosities varying from 0.3 to 46 centipoise interfacial tensions 42 dyne/cm. A theoretical relation obtained Taylor Acrivos analysis which quite accurately predicts eccentricities Reynolds numbers less than about 20, but is...

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) policies, projects, interventions are among the most prominent of recent attempts to mitigate climate change. Because REDD+ projects focus on forests, they simultaneously affect socioeconomic ecological outcomes at local, subnational, national, regional, global levels. This review assesses promise for continued ability forests provide multiple benefits human societies scales. We survey efforts different levels, examining...

This article examines the relationship between local enforcement and forests used as commons. It uses a unique multicountry dataset, created over past 15 years by International Forestry Resources Institutions Research Program. Drawing on original forest commons data from 9 countries, we find that higher levels of have strong positive but complex to probability regeneration. holds even when influence number other factors such user group size, subsistence, commercial importance forests, size...

Dalam artikel ini, penulis bertujuan untuk merangsang terjadinya debat tentang pengetahuan lokal ( indigenous knowledge ) bertitik tolak dari pendapatnya adanya kontradiksi dan kelemahan-kelemahan konseptual dalam banyak tulisan lokal. Pokok permasalahan yang dibahas ini terutama memfokus pada argumen bahwa perbedaan antara ilmiah atau Barat dapat menimbulkan masalah bagi mereka percaya atas makna penting pembangunan. Artikel mengkaji beberapa ironi terdapat upaya memberikan penekanan...

ABSTRACT This article examines the institutional factors that account for outcome of efforts to decentralize control over natural resources local communities. It focuses on political nature processes associated with decentralization in sub‐Saharan Africa through a comparative analysis wildlife management reforms seven east and southern African countries. Institutional are largely dependent state authorities' patronage interests, which turn shaped by relative economic value wildlife, degree...