Democratic Decentralisation through a Natural Resource Lens: Cases from Africa, Asia and Latin AmericaJesse 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. |
Contents
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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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