Beyond Territory and Scarcity: Exploring Conflicts over Natural Resource Management

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

LOOKING BEYOND THE OBVIOUS: Uncovering the Features of Natural Resource Conflicts in Uganda

Disputes over land, water, forests, rangelands, and other resources, both privately and commonly-held, are omnipresent across Africa and increasing in number due to the socioeconomic and environmental changes happening on microand macrolevels. Communities in Africa have a variety of mechanisms rooted in customary and statutory institutions to deal with disputes. This paper uses community-level ...

Safeguarding the Commons: Conflicts over Natural Resource Use and Poverty Alleviation Strategies in Rural Tanzania

This paper discusses the impacts of conflicts emanating from competing natural resource use and poverty eradication strategies around protected and mining areas in Tanzania. Case studies of various protected areas are used to demonstrate the nature and extent of conflicts emerging from changing demographic conditions, land use competition and globalisation pressures. Such conflicts often occur ...

The sacred commons: Conflicts and solutions of resource management in sacred natural sites

Promoting Natural Resource Management with an Emphasis on Good Governance

Background and Objectives: Good governance has received a lot of attention regarding the better management of natural resources, because of its efforts to improve the ability of the natural resource management system. In other words, good governance can affect the socio-economic components of the region and ultimately the improvement of natural habitats. In this regard, evaluating good governan...