Thomas Skielboe

TL;DR: A typology of monitoring categories, defined by their degree of local participation, is suggested, ranging from no local involvement with monitoring undertaken by professional researchers to an entirely local effort with monitoring undertook by local people, to help develop a protocol for monitoring in developing countries.

TL;DR: A multicountry assessment of tropical resource monitoring by local communities is presented in this paper, with a focus on the monitoring of tropical resources in the field of bio-medical applications.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test how indigenous and local knowledge on natural resources in Miskito and Mayangna communities in Nicaragua, validated through focus groups with community members, compares with information collected on line transects by trained scientists.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the strategies of poor households in local water conflicts and showed how dependency relations between poor and wealthy households can reduce the scope of action for the poor in water conflicts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of comprehensive inventories made of water-related conflict and cooperation occurring in five districts in Africa, Asia and Latin America between 1997 and 2007.