Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 45, Issue 1, Pages 52-66Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-008-9235-y
Keywords
Community-based environmental initiatives; Community-based natural resource management; Environmental curriculum; Interdisciplinary Process; Social ecologic systems; The Commons
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- Antioch New England Institute
- N. Howes Fund
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This article examines recent research on approaches to community-based environmental and natural resource management and reviews the commonalities and differences between these interdisciplinary and multistakeholder initiatives. To identify the most effective characteristics of Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), I collected a multiplicity of perspectives from research teams and then grouped findings into a matrix of organizational principles and key characteristics. The matrix was initially vetted (or field tested) by applying numerous case studies that were previously submitted to the World Bank International Workshop on CBNRM. These practitioner case studies were then compared and contrasted with the findings of the research teams. It is hoped that the developed matrix may be useful to researchers in further focusing research, understanding core characteristics of effective and sustainable CBNRM, providing practitioners with a framework for developing new CBNRM initiatives for managing the commons, and providing a potential resource for academic institutions during their evaluation of their practitioner-focused environmental management and leadership curriculum.
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