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Acheson, James M. 1989. "Management of common-property resources," in Economic anthropology. Edited by Plattner, Stuart, pp. 487. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. ACSC Keywords: common property, resource management, management, Hardin, open access, tragedy of the commons
Adams, William M., Brockington, Dan, Dyson, Jane, and Vira, Bhaskar. 2003. Managing tragedies: Understanding conflict over common pool resources. Science 302:1915-1916. ACSC Keywords: scale, semiarid grazing systems, nonequilibrium, common pool resources, conflict, natural resource management
Agrawal, Arun. 2001. Common property institutions and sustainable governance of resources. World Development 29:1649-1672. Author's Keywords: resource management, sustainability, common-pool resources, property rights, institutions ACSC Keywords: conservation, South, institutions, collective action, watershed management, natural-resources, forest management, community, population, politics, history, CPRs
Agrawal, Arun and Gibson, Clark C. 1999. Enchantment and disenchantment: The role of community in natural resource conservation. World Development 27:629-649. ACSC Keywords: resource management, CBC, Community-based Conservation, conservation, community, norms
Agrawal, Arun and Gibson, Clark C. 2001. "Introduction: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation," in Communities and the environment : ethnicity, gender, and the state in community-based conservation, pp. xiv, 205. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ACSC Keywords: resource management, CBC, Community-based Conservation, conservation, community, norms, Nature conservation, natural resources, citizen participation, ICRAF seminar agroforestry
Agrawal, Arun. 2003. Sustainable governance of common-pool resources: Context, methods, and politics. Annual Review of Anthropology 32:243-262. Author's Keywords: common property, resource management, sustainability, institution
Alcorn, Janis B. 2005. "Dances around the fire: Conservation orgainzations and community-based natural resource management," in Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management. Edited by Brosius, J. P., Tsing, A. L., and Zerner, C., pp. 37-68. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. ACSC Keywords: Community-based Conservation, conservation, community, local, representation, community-based natural resource management, CBNRM, sustainable, environmental degradation, non-governmental organizations, donors, governments, CBC community-based conservation
Antona, Martine, Biénabe, Estelle Motte, Salles, Jean-Michel, Péchard, Géraldine, Aubert, Sigrid, and Ratsimbarison, Rivo. 2004. Rights transfers in Madagascar biodiversity policies: Achievements and significance. Environment and Development Economics 9:825-847. ACSC Keywords: resource management, policy, africa, decentralization, community, Madagascar, Secured Local management of Natural Resources, GELOSE
Armitage, Derek and Johnson, Derek. 2006. Can resilience be reconciled with globalization and the increasingly complex conditions of resource degradation in Asian coastal regions?. Ecology and Society 11. Author's Keywords: resource management, sustainability, India, globalization, resilience, indonesia, complexity, social-ecological system, coastal management
Armitage, Derek R. 2003. Traditional agroecological knowledge, adaptive mangement and the socio-politics of conservation in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Environmental Conservation 30:79-90. Author's Keywords: resource management, sustainability, indigenous knowledge, environmental policy, community-based management, agroecosystems, ecosystems ACSC Keywords: conservation, indonesia, Sulawesi, adaptive management, traditional ecological knowledge
Ashenafi, Zelealem Tefera and Leader-Williams, N. 2005. Indigenous common property resource management in the central highlands of Ethiopia. Human Ecology 33:539-563. Author's Keywords: Ethiopia, common property resources, indigenous resource managementn institutions, Qero system, Guassa
Austin, Rebecca L. and Eder, James F. 2007. Environmentalism, Development, and participation on Palawan island, Philippines. Society & Natural Resources 20:363-371. Author's Keywords: sustainable development, environmentalism, NGOs, participation, Philippines, costal resource management, community-based resource management, hybrid NGO's
Ballard, Heidi L. and Huntsinger, Lynn. 2006. Salal harvester local ecological knowledge, harvest practices and understory management on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Human Ecology 34:529-547. Author's Keywords: nontimber forest products, local ecological knowledge, pacific northwest, harvest, sustainable resource management, Gaultheria shallon, salal
Barrett, Christopher B., Brandon, Katrina, Gibson, Clark C., and Gjertsen, Heidi. 2001. Conserving tropical biodiversity amid weak institutions. Bioscience 51:497-502. ACSC Keywords: scale, CBC, Community-based Conservation, natural resource management, sustainability, africa, institutions, community, politics, lessons, integrated conservation, programs, networks, development projects
Berke, Phillip, Ericksen, Neil, Crawford, Jan, and Dixon, Jenny. 2002. Planning and indigenous people: Human rights and environmental protection in New Zealand. Journal of Planning Education and Research 22:115-134. ACSC Keywords: management, planning, indigenous rights, governments, indigenous people, human rights, Environmental protection, environmental justice, land use, capacity building, New Zealand, leadership, RMAct, Resource Management Act, plan quality, local plans
Berkes, Fikret, Colding, Johan, and Folke, Carl. 2000. Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive management. Ecological Applications 10:1251-1262. Author's Keywords: resource management, resilience, adaptive management, traditional ecological knowledge, human ecology, social learning ACSC Keywords: indigenous knowledge, IK, TEK, science
Berkes, Fikret. 2002. "Cross-scale institutional linkages: Perspective from the bottom up," in The Drama of the Commons: Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, pp. 293-321. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. ACSC Keywords: scale, natural resource management, governance, institutions, commons
Berkes, Fikret and Turner, Nancy J. 2006. Knowledge, learning and the evolution of conservation practice for social-ecological system resilience. 34:479-494. Author's Keywords: common property, resource management, conservation, institutions, indigenous knowledge, resilience, traditional ecological knowledge, adaptive learning
Berkes, Fikret. 1999. "Emergence of the Field," in Sacred ecology: Traditional ecological knowledge and resource management. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis. ACSC Keywords: resource management, traditional ecological knowledge, TEK, ethnobiology
Birner, Regina and Wittmer, Heidi. 2004. On the 'efficient boundaries of the state': The contribution of transaction-costs economics to the analysis of decentralization and devolution in natural resource management. Environment and Planning C-Government and Policy 22:667-685. ACSC Keywords: conservation, policy, natural resource management, governance, state, Kenya, organization, proper scope, government, perspective, rights, boundaries
Blaikie, Piers. 2006. Is small really beautiful? Community-based natural resource management in Malawi and Botswana. World Development 34:1942–1957. Author's Keywords: community-based natural resource management, central and southern Africa
Blumenthal, Dana and Jannink, Jean-Luc. 2000. A classification of collaborative management methods. Conservation Ecology 4. Author's Keywords: natural resource management, collaboration, adaptive management, agriculture, agroecosystem analysis, ecosystem management, participatory rural appraisal, rapid rural appraisal, soft systems analysis
Brosius, J. Peter, Tsing, Anna L., and Zerner, Charles. 1998. Representing communities: Histories and politics of community-based natural resource management. Society & Natural Resources 11:157-168. Author's Keywords: development, conservation, state, community-based natural resource management, NGOs, participation, indonesia, nongovernmental organizations, collective rights, environmental discourses, environmental justice, legal pluralism, nongovernmental organizations (ngos), territorialization ACSC Keywords: CBNRM, participatory
Campbell, L. M. and Vainio-Mattila, A. 2003. Participatory development and community-based conservation: Opportunities missed for lessons learned?. Human Ecology 31:417-437. Author's Keywords: conservation, participatory development, theory, praxis ACSC Keywords: wildlife, natural resource management, state, politics, Costa Rica, attitudes, Nepal, future, environmental ngos, experts
Carlsson, L. and Berkes, F. 2005. Co-management: concepts and methodological implications. Journal of Environmental Management 75:65-76. Author's Keywords: governance, community, environmental policy, co-management, cross-scale linkages, the state, decision-making ACSC Keywords: natural resource management, participation, communities, networks, power, implementation, mapping
Castella, Jean-Christophe, Boissau, Stanislas, Thanh, Nguyen Hai, and Novosad, Paul. 2006. Impact of forestland allocation on land use in a mountainous province of Vietnam. Land Use Policy 23:147-160. Author's Keywords: natural resource management, Vietnam, land policy, forestland allocation, livelihood systems, mountain agriculture, bac kan ACSC Keywords: systems, rice
Charnley, S. and Poe, M. R. 2007. Community forestry in theory and practice: Where are we now?. Annual Review of Anthropology 36:301-336. Author's Keywords: governance, sustainability, forests, community-based forest management, forest communities ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, natural resource management, decentralization, Mexico, protected areas, tropical forests, poverty alleviation, livelihoods, United States, developing countries, conservation strategies
Cohn, Jeffrey P. 1988. Culture and conservation. Bioscience 38:450-453. ACSC Keywords: resource management, development, CBC, Community-based Conservation, conservation, local, indigenous, human, culture, access, integrated conservation and development, ICDP
Colchester, Marcus. 1994. Sustaining the Forests: The Community-based Approach in South and South-East Asia. Development and Change 25:69-100. ACSC Keywords: management, CBC, Community-based Conservation, conservation, rural, sustainability, forests, local, community-based natural resource management, CBNRM, South Asia, South-East Asia
Colding, Johan and Folke, Carl. 2001. Social taboos: "Invisible" systems of local resource management and biological conservation. Ecological Applications 11:584-600. Author's Keywords: ecology, biodiversity, conservation, natural resource management, knowledge, India, science, ecosystem management, fisheries, informal institutions, resource and habitat taboos (rhts), sacred groves, social taboos, traditional societies, transactions costs, food taboos, biodiversity conservation, diet, transaction costs ACSC Keywords: scale
Coward, E. Walter. 2005. "Building models of cummunity-based natural resource management: a personal narrative," in Communities and Conservation: histories and politics of community-based natural resource management. Edited by Brosius, J. P., Tsing, A. L., and Zerner, C., pp. 91-104. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. ACSC Keywords: community-based natural resource management, CBNRM, Asia, Mekong
Crona, Beatrice Irene, Bodin, Örjan, and Ernstson, Henrik. 2006. Social networks in natural resource management: What is there to learn from a structural perspective?. Ecology and Society 11. Author's Keywords: natural resource management, adaptive management, co-management, social networks, structure
Danielsen, F. et. al. 2005. Does monitoring matter? A quantitative assessment of management decisions from locally-based monitoring of protected areas. Biodiversity and Conservation 14:2633-2652. Author's Keywords: sustainability, community-based natural resource management, locally-based monitoring, Philippines, decision-making, Participatory monitoring ACSC Keywords: CBC, Community-based Conservation, marine, monitoring and evaluation
Davidson-Hunt, I. J. 2006. Adaptive learning networks: Developing resource management knowledge through social learning forums. Human Ecology 34:593-614. Author's Keywords: resource management, indigenous knowledge, social learning, adaptive learning
DeWalt, Billie R. 1994. Using indigenous knowledge to improve agriculture and natural resource management. Human Organization 53:123-131. Author's Keywords: natural resource management, agriculture, indigenous knowledge systems, philosophy of science ACSC Keywords: natural resource management, indigenous knowledge, science
Diamond, Nancy K. Conservation (Issue No. 2): Scaling Up Participatory Conservation. World Bank: Global Environment Facility Program. ACSC Keywords: conservation, natural resource management, participatory, participatory development, World Bank, transboundary, practitioner
Diegues, A. C. 1999. Human populations and coastal wetlands: conservation and management in Brazil. Ocean & Coastal Management 42:187-210. ACSC Keywords: buffer zones, wetlands, Brazil, terrestrial-marine systems connectivity, coastal resource management
Edmunds, David and Wollenberg, Eva. 2001. A strategic approach to multistakeholder negotiations. Development and Change 32:231-253. ACSC Keywords: development, natural resource management, sustainability, collective action, environment, forest, methods, stakeholders, negotiation
Fabricius, C., Koch, E., and Magome, H. 2001. Towards strengthening collaborative ecosystem management: Lessons from environmental conflict and political change in Southern Africa. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 31:831-844. Author's Keywords: policy, participation, democracy, co-management, community conservation ACSC Keywords: resource management, conservation, africa, community, protected areas, eviction, resettlement
Feeny, D., Berkes, F., McCay, B. J., and Acheson, J. M. 1990. The tragedy of the commons: 22 years later. Human Ecology 18:1-19. Author's Keywords: common property, wildlife, forests, sustainable development, fisheries, co-management, grazing lands, water resources ACSC Keywords: resource management, Hardin, commons, resource use
Fortwangler, C. and Stern, M. 2004. Why History and Culture Matter--a Case Study from the Virgin Islands National Park. Policy Matters :148-161. ACSC Keywords: resource management, management, planning, parks, protected areas, marine, marine protected areas, human, United States, caribbean, MPAs, Virgin Islands, St. John
Fox, J. 1992. The problem of scale in community resource-management. Environmental Management 16:289-297. Author's Keywords: scale, hierarchy theory, geographic information systems, community resource management ACSC Keywords: scale
Freemuth, J. 1996. Emergence of ecosystem management: Reinterpreting the Gospel?. Society & Natural Resources 9:411-417. Author's Keywords: ecosystem management, implementation, federal land policy, natural resource policy, policy advocacy, policy analysis, progressive era ACSC Keywords: conservation, natural resource management
Gadgil, M., Olsson, P., Berkes, F., and Folke, C. 2003. "Exploring the role of local ecological knowledge in ecosystem management: Three case studies," in Navigating social-ecological systems. Edited by Berkes, F., Colding, J., and Folke, C., pp. 189-209. London: Cambridge University Press. ACSC Keywords: scale, natural resource management, political ecology, local knowledge
Galvin, K. A., Thornton, P. K., de Pinho, J. R., Sunderland, J., and Boone, R. B. 2006. Integrated modeling and its potential for resolving conflicts between conservation and people in the rangelands of East Africa. Human Ecology 34:155-183. Author's Keywords: conservation, modeling, east african pastoralists, human-environment interactions ACSC Keywords: Community-based Conservation, biodiversity, political ecology, protected areas, attitudes, local people, natural-resource management, Tanzania, national-park, wildlife conservation
German, Laura A., Kidane, Berhane, and Shemdoe, Riziki. 2006. Social and environmental trade-offs in tree species selection: A methodology for identifying niche incompatabilities in agroforestry. Environment, Development and Sustainability 8:535-552. Author's Keywords: africa, community-based natural resource management, stakeholder, agroforestry
Gibson, C. C., Williams, J. T., and Ostrom, E. 2005. Local enforcement and better forests. World Development 33:273-284. Author's Keywords: resource management, collective action, forestry, monitoring and sanctioning ACSC Keywords: management, governance, institutions, accountability, commons, community forestry, cooperation, punishment, heterogeneity, reciprocity, IFRI research program, management legitimacy
Goldman, Mara. 2003. Partitioned nature, privileged knowledge: Community-based conservation in Tanzania. Development and Change 34:833-862. ACSC Keywords: development, CBC, Community-based Conservation, africa, knowledge, indigenous knowledge, IK, community-based natural resource management, CBNRM, traditional ecological knowledge, TEK, human, Tanzania, participatory
Gray, Leslie C. and Moseley, William G. 2005. A geographical perspective on poverty-environment interactions. GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL 171:9-23. Author's Keywords: poverty, political ecology, environmental degradation, environmental discourse ACSC Keywords: conservation, natural resource management, africa, developing countries, Third World, land rights, economic growth, burkina-faso, KUZNETS CURVE
Grimble, R. and Wellard, K. 1997. Stakeholder methodologies in natural resource management: A review of principles, contexts, experiences and opportunities. Agricultural Systems 55:173-193. ACSC Keywords: natural resource management, cost-benefit analysis