Democratic Decentralisation through a Natural Resource Lens: Cases from Africa, Asia and Latin America

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Jesse C. Ribot, Anne M. Larson
Routledge, 2013 M09 13 - 272 pages
This volume queries the state and effect of the global decentralization movement through the study of natural resource decentralizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The case studies presented here use a comparative framework to characterize the degree to which natural resource decentralizations can be said to be taking place and, where possible, to measure their social and environmental consequences. In general, the cases show that threats to national-level interests are producing resistance that is fettering the struggle for reform.

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Contents

An Introduction
1
Decentralisation and the Watershed Mission in Madhya Pradesh India
26
A Case Study of the Mkambati EcoTourism Project on the Wild Coast of South Africa
41
A Case Study of Natural Resource Management in Nicaragua
55
Dilemmas of Land Administration in Rural South Africa
71
What Lies behind Decentralisation? Forest Powers and Actors in Lowland Bolivia
90
Will Decentralisation Work for the People and the Forests of Indonesia?
110
Decentralisation Rural Livelihoods and PastureLand Management in PostSocialist Mongolia
133
A Case from Yunnan Southwest China
153
The Social and Organisational Roots of Ecological Uncertainties in Cameroons Forest Management Decentralisation Model
174
A Potentially Damaging Second Wave of Decentralisation?
192
Decentralising Water Resource Management in Brazil
214
A Recipe for Sustainability and Equity?
235
Index
255
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Jesse C. Ribot is a Senior Associate in the Institutions and Governance Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI). He currently directs WRI's Africa Decentralization and Environment Initiative. He has conducted research on environmental justice, social vulnerability in the face of climate change, the social structure of resource access, and the effects of rural-urban resource markets on local livelihoods. Ribot has also worked on local environmental governance issues with the World Bank, the United Nations Capital Development Fund, the Dutch Government and USAID, and has advised governments across Africa.

Anne M. Larson is a Research Associate of the Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia, and the Nitlapán Institute for Research and Development of the Central American University in Managua, Nicaragua. She has published articles in World Development and Public Administration and Development, as well as a book on local forest management in Nicaragua in Spanish, and worked extensively on the recently-published book Municipal Forest Management in Latin America (ed. Ferroukhi, 2003).

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