Democratic Decentralization Through a Natural Resource Lense

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Jesse Craig Ribot, Anne M. Larson
Psychology Press, 2005 - 260 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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Decentralisation when Land and Resource Rights are Deeply
41
Formal Decentralisation and the Imperative of Decentralisation from
55
Dilemmas
71
What Lies behind Decentralisation? Forest Powers and Actors
90
Will Decentralisation Work for
110
Decentralisation Rural Livelihoods and PastureLand Management
133
A Case
153
The Social and Organisational Roots of Ecological Uncertainties
174
A Potentially Damaging Second Wave
192
Decentralising Water Resource Management in Brazil
214
A Recipe
235
Index
255
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