Description
Book SynopsisA discussion of community-based conservation. Although the contributors advocate community action, they cover its dangers as well as its promises. They explore the political contexts in which communities emerge and operate, focusing on issues related to ethnicity, gender and the state.
Table of ContentsThe role of community in natural resource conservation / Arun Agrawal and Clark C. Gibson
Invoking community: indigenous people and ancestral domain in Palawan, the Philippines / Melanie Hughes McDermott
Gender dimensions of community resource management: the case of water users' associations in South Asia / Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Margreet Zwarteveen
The ethnopolitics of irrigation in management in the Ziz oasis, Morocco / Hsain Ilahiane
Reidentifying ground rules: community inheritance disputes among the Digo of Kenya / Bettina Ng'weno
Communitites, states, and the governance of Pacific Northwest salmon fisheries / Sara Singleton
Boundary work: community, market, and state reconsidered / Tania Murray Li
Community and the commons: romantic and other views / Bonnie J. McCay
