Representing communities: Histories and politics of community-based natural resource management

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1998

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Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a loosely woven transnational movement, based particularly on advocacy by nongovernmental organizations working with local groups and communities, on the one hand, and national and transnational organizations, on the other, to build and extend new versions of environmental and social advocacy that link social justice and environmental management agendas. Once of the most significant developments has been the promotion of community-based natural resource management programs and policies. However, the success of disseminating this paradigm has raised new challenges, as concepts of community, territory, conservation, and indigenous are worked in to politically varied plans and programs in disparate sites. We outline a series of themes, questions, and concerns that we believe should be addressed both in the work of scholars engaged in analyzing this emergent agenda, and in the efforts of advocates and donor institutions who are engaged in designing and implementing such programs.

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Natural resource management, Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Conservation, Collective rights, Community-based, Development, Environmental discourses, Environmental justice, Legal pluralism, Participation, Governance

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Society and Natural Resources 11: 157-168