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Sharing Power:
Learning by Doing in Co-management of
Natural Resources throughout the World
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by Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Michel Pimbert,
M.Taghi Farvar, Ashish Kothari and Yves Renard
ISBN: 1 84369 444 1
Published by:
The Natural Resources Group and the Sustainable Agriculture and
Rural Livelihoods Programme of the International Institute for
Environment and Development (IIED) and the Collaborative
Management Working Group (CMWG) of the IUCN Commission on
Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) of the World
Conservation Union (IUCN) ; 2004 |
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At the heart of ‘co-management’ of natural resources
is a process of collective understanding and action
by local communities and other social actors. The
process brings about negotiated agreements on
management roles, rights, and responsibilities,
making explicit the conditions and institutions of
sound decentralized governance. De facto,
co-management is about sharing power. When
successful, it spells out the peaceful and
intelligent ways by which communities and other
actors overcome environmental challenges, take best
advantage of nature’s gifts and share those in
fairness and solidarity. When it fails, it ushers
conflicts, human misery and environmental damages.
This book is designed to support
professionals and citizens at large who both wish to
better understand collaborative management processes
and develop and enhance them in practice. It begins
by offering a variety of vistas, from broad
historical and equity considerations to in-depth
co-management examples. The understanding
accumulated in recent decades on starting points for
co-management, pre-requisites for successful
negotiations (such as effective social communication
and internal organization of the parties) as well as
rules, methods and conditions of the negotiations
themselves are illustrated in detail. Methods and
tools, such as practical checklists distilled from
different situations and contexts, are offered
throughout. Examples of specific agreements and
pluralist management organizations are discussed.
The experience of social actors learning by doing
and improving their management practices on an
on-going basis is what informed this book— together
with the complex and inspiring ways by which the
surrounding socio-political conditions can be
improved through participatory democracy.
“Sharing Power” should be required reading for
all of us involved in the governance and management
of natural resources. […] The lamp-posts are
intelligence, care and equity—the exact opposite of
situations in which the stronger forces impose their
will on the weaker ones, without regard to
understandings, results or even meaning, let alone
sustainability. […] This book invites us to, and
equips us for, a dialogue among different cultures,
being those of neighbors or of distant actors, in a
respectful and equitable search for new forms of
natural resource management. […] You will find
yourself consulting this book over and over again
when you need inspiration and practical help... from
the foreword by Juan Mayr Maldonado
                
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