The Science of Sustainable Development
The Science of Sustainable Development
Local Livelihoods and the Global Environment
Jeffrey Sayer, WWF International, Switzerland
Bruce Campbell, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Bruce Campbell, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
December 2003
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9780521534567
Science faces major challenges in tackling the interlinked problems of poverty and environmental sustainability. This book calls for a restructuring of our present arrangements to achieve integrated natural resource management--integration across scales, system components, disciplines and knowledge types. It advocates the necessity of modelling, multi-scale analysis and action research, institutional and organizational development, and communication enhancement. The book draws on case studies throughout the world.
- Demonstrates how science can assist solving practical resource management problems
- Advocates an integrated approach that encompasses the needs of all the stake-holders
- Calls for institutional arrangements for integrating science and management which has major implications for the design and operation of development assistance programmes
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Product details
December 2003Paperback
9780521534567
292 pages
229 × 152 × 15 mm
0.475kg
35 b/w illus. 4 tables
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Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- List of tables
- Foreword Claude Martin
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Integrating Natural Resource Management:
- 1. The challenge: alleviating poverty and conserving the environment
- 2. Dealing with complexity
- 3. Getting into the system: multiple realities, social learning and adaptive management
- 4. issues of scale
- 5. Models, knowledge and negotiation
- Part II. Realities on the Ground:
- 6. Institutions for managing natural resources in African savannahs
- 7. Forest margins in Indonesian Borneo
- 8. Learning by doing on tropical American hillsides
- Part III. The Research-Management Continuum:
- 9. The spread of innovations
- 10. Measuring the performance of natural resource systems
- 11. Achieving research-based management
- Bibliography
- Index.
