Collective Action within the Household: Insights from Natural Resource Management

Property Rights, Collective Action, and Technologies for Natural Resource Management

Deg ra da tion of natu ral re sources has be come a global prob lem that threat ens the live li hood of mil lions of poor peo ple. Many prom is ing tech nolo gies for natu ral re source man age ment are avail able to ad dress these prob lems, but farm ers and oth ers of ten fail to adopt them. Why is this? Al though many fac tors can be iden ti fied, lack of se cure prop erty rights and col lec...

Insights on Natural Resource Management and Rural Development in Zambia: Moving From Research Evidence to Action

Stakeholders from a broad array of perspectives deliberated on a number of human, environmental, as well as food security development issues in Zambia. Due to overwhelming interest some issues were recommended for further discussion. Feedback will be conveyed on presentations, discussions and outstanding issues in a larger forum proceeding report. In the meantime from the presentations and plen...

CATALYZING COLLECTIVE ACTION TO ADDRESS NATURAL RESOURCE CONFLICT: Lessons from Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake

This paper reports on outcomes and lessons learned from a 15-month initiative aimed at strengthening collective action to address natural resource conflict in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake. Employing the Appreciation-Influence-Control (AIC) model of participatory stakeholder engagement, the initiative aimed in particular to build collective understanding of the sources of vulnerability in fisheries...

Challenges of Action Research: Insights From Language Institutes

Action research is a small-scale intervention in the functioning of the real world to address practitioners’ own issues and carry out a close examination of the effects of such an intervention. Classroom-based research, or action research, can be the viable solution to some pandemic academic sluggishness and scientific apathy. However, the erroneous impression that research is an elite discipli...

Draft Not for Citation Methods of Studying Collective Action in Natural Resource Management: the Case of Community Forestry in Nepal