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The Science of Sustainable Development: Local Livelihoods and the Global Environment
Jeffrey Sayer,Bruce M. Campbell +1 more
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Martin this article discusses the challenges of integrating natural resource management in the context of alleviating poverty and conserving the environment, including multiple realities, social learning, adaptive management, and models, knowledge and negotiation.Abstract:
List of figures List of boxes List of tables Foreword Claude Martin Preface Acknowledgements Part I. Integrating Natural Resource Management: 1. The challenge: alleviating poverty and conserving the environment 2. Dealing with complexity 3. Getting into the system: multiple realities, social learning and adaptive management 4. issues of scale 5. Models, knowledge and negotiation Part II. Realities on the Ground: 6. Institutions for managing natural resources in African savannahs 7. Forest margins in Indonesian Borneo 8. Learning by doing on tropical American hillsides Part III. The Research-Management Continuum: 9. The spread of innovations 10. Measuring the performance of natural resource systems 11. Achieving research-based management Bibliography Index.read more
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