Local Environmental Management in a North-South Perspective: Issues of Participation and Knowledge ManagementHow can weaker sections of society exercise their rights and participate in the management of their physical environment? What factors enhance the development and adaptation of knowledge in view of sustainable natural resource management in rural as well as urban contexts? What roles do development agents such as public administration, community development organizations, training and research institutions and international development agencies assume in these regards? |
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Contents
Foreword by R KaufmannHayoz H Hurni and N North | 7 |
Flury U Geiser and R KaufmannHayoz | 13 |
Flury and G Cissé | 23 |
E Waas A Bidaux P Bayili and F Adegnika | 49 |
Pham Gia Tran Thai Thị Ngọc Du Bui Thi Lang and J C Bolay | 61 |
K Wyss N Yemadji and E Jeannée | 79 |
Y Arsano and G Baechler | 91 |
J Behringer and G Dürrenberger | 109 |
U Geiser | 157 |
K Herweg and Y Gebre Michael | 181 |
B N Hiremath and K V Raju | 203 |
E Künzi U Wiesmann and F Maina | 225 |
P Kistler and P Messerli | 237 |
R Baumgartner G S Aurora G K Karanth and V Ramaswamy | 255 |
List of Authors | 277 |
S UlliBeer | 139 |
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action activities actors adoption agents agricultural approach areas authorities become Berne building citizens co-operation collection collectors concerned conflict context contribute crops cultivation cultural decisions discussion economic effective efficient emerging environment environmental example experience external farmers farming field focus groups households implementation important improve increase indigenous individual influence initiatives innovation institutional interaction interests involved irrigation issues knowledge land learning livelihood means natural resource negotiation operators organisations participation participatory particular peasants planning platform political potential practices present problems production promote regard region resource management role rural situation social society soil specific stakeholders strategies structures sustainable tank technical tion traditional understanding University urban users various village waste women World
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| Title | Local Environmental Management in a North-South Perspective: Issues of Participation and Knowledge Management Online access: EBSCO Environment Complete Themenheft Swiss Priority Programme Environment Local environmental management in a North-South perspective Themenheft Swiss Priority Programme Environment Themenhefte (Schwerpunktprogramm Umwelt (Switzerland))) |
| Editors | Manuel Flury, Urs Geiser |
| Publisher | IOS Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1586032224, 9781586032227 |
| Length | 280 pages |
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