Co-Management of Natural Resources in Asia

• One of the few studies focusing on co-management of natural resources (as opposed to general environmental issues).

• This approach to environmental management is rapidly becoming popular in Asia.

Co-management, that is the sharing of responsibilities between governmental institutions and groups of resource users, is rapidly becoming popular in Asia. In many countries environmental management is reformulated from exclusive state control to various kinds of joint management in which local communities, indigenous peoples and non-governmental organizations share authority and benefits with governmental institutions. In this book case studies of experiments with co-management in a number of countries are combined with more reflective contributions pointing to underlying assumptions and problems in the actual implementation of co-management.

Introduction: Gerard Persoon and Diny van Est: Co-management of natural resources: the concepts and aspects of implementation

Part One: Working at local levels: Multiple voices from Asian Communities
Dante Aquino: Co-management of forest resources: the Bugkalot experience
Ingvild Harkes and Irene Novaczek: institutional resilience of marine Sasi, a traditional fisheries management system in Central Maluku, Indonesia
Gert Polet: Co-management in protected areas: the case of Cat Tien national park – SouthernVietnam
Paulo Pasicolan: Exploring the right blend between government facilitative role and farmers’ initiative in forest regeneration
Wei Hu: Pasture land management in post-reform China: grazing on ambiguously owned land
Marieke Hobbes: Pala’wan managing their forests (Palawan Island, the Philippines)

Part Two: Reflective and comparative approaches to the co-management debate
Arne Kalland: years of transition in coastal Japanese fisheries, 1868-1912
Robert Pomeroy, Brenda Katon and Ingvild Harkes: Fisheries co-management: key conditions and principles drawn from Asian experiences
Percy Sajise, Francisco Fellizar and Gil Sanguiguit: The road to community- based resource management in the Philippines: entries, bends, tolls and dead-ends
Manon Osseweijer: Conflicting Boundaries. The role of mapping in the co-management discourse
Gautam Yadama: Co-production of forests in Andhra Pradesh, India: theoretical and practical considerations
Christina Eghenter: Imagined models vs historical practices: Tana Ulen and community- based management of natural resources in the interior of Indonesian Borneo
Denyse Snelder, Lilian Spijkerman and Jan Sevink: Biophysical Perspective on co-management of natural resources, with special reference to the Northern Sierra Madre Mountain Region (Philippines)

Part three: Conclusions
Roy Ellen: Trends in diversity and preferred futures
Index

This volume on co-management is an important valuable first contribution to the literature on sustainable development in the region.

Reviewed by Mike Parnwell, University of Leeds, Aseasuk News no.35

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