Success attributes of regional natural resource management

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...

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...

Attributes of Leadership for Success in Project Management

In the hypercompetitive business environment, to maximize returns to the organization and to minimize risks on failures in project execution, we need a special kind of leadership. A project manager holding such a mantle relinquishes positional authority and becomes part of the work group to provide direction, communication, group process facilitation, coordination and support to achieve better ...

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Integrating R&D into Decision-Making for Natural Resource Management at a Regional Scale

The operational reality behind the rhetoric of integrated natural resource management poses significant challenges for resource managers, resource use planners and research scientists. A variety of frameworks for integrated resource planning and use have been espoused. These tend to reflect the bias of the discipline or stakeholder group fostering the approach and may therefore be unpalatable t...