The evolution of sustainable development strategies in Canada: an assessment of three federal natural resource management agencies

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Plummer
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Development Strategies

Development of Long Term Sustainability-Programmes for Ukrainian Mining Enterprises under Unstable Economic Conditions

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 93-99
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Temchenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Effective Functioning ◽  
Sustainable Natural Resource Management ◽  
Strategic Factors

The article deals with developing long-term sustainability programmes as a means of ensuring the effective functioning of mining enterprises. The authors focus on specific problems of Ukrainian mining enterprises’ activity, substantiation of implementing environmentally sustainable natural resource management. The system of strategic factors for ensuring mining enterprises’ sustainable development under unstable economic conditions is formed.

Common-Pool Resource Management

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan A. Oldekop ◽  
Reem Hajjar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Natural Resource Governance ◽  
Development Approach

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) initiatives aim to link socioeconomic development with sustainable natural resource use and the conservation of biodiversity of natural resources. CBNRM relies on the concept that rights, responsibilities, and authority for natural resource management decisions should rest with local communities; the decentralization of natural resource management is central to a rights-based sustainable development approach. Despite a global push to decentralize natural resource governance over the past two decades, many initiatives have failed to reach their intended goals. Much research has focused on identifying the kinds of enabling conditions and accompanying institutional arrangements needed to promote collective action (investing) and reduce free riding (exploitation) to bring about more sustainable and equitable management of shared resources. This chapter reviews the theory and conditions thought to aid and allow communities collectively to manage resources more equitably and sustainably. Management of community forests is used to explore current knowledge gaps and what these represent for sustainable development interventions.

scholarly journals Boundary work for sustainable development: Natural resource management at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

2011 ◽  
Vol 113 (17) ◽  
pp. 4615-4622 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Clark ◽  
Thomas P. Tomich ◽  
Meine van Noordwijk ◽  
David Guston ◽  
Delia Catacutan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
International Agricultural Research ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Consultative Group

Previous research on the determinants of effectiveness in knowledge systems seeking to support sustainable development has highlighted the importance of “boundary work” through which research communities organize their relations with new science, other sources of knowledge, and the worlds of action and policymaking. A growing body of scholarship postulates specific attributes of boundary work that promote used and useful research. These propositions, however, are largely based on the experience of a few industrialized countries. We report here on an effort to evaluate their relevance for efforts to harness science in support of sustainability in the developing world. We carried out a multicountry comparative analysis of natural resource management programs conducted under the auspices of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. We discovered six distinctive kinds of boundary work contributing to the successes of those programs—a greater variety than has been documented in previous studies. We argue that these different kinds of boundary work can be understood as a dual response to the different uses for which the results of specific research programs are intended, and the different sources of knowledge drawn on by those programs. We show that these distinctive kinds of boundary work require distinctive strategies to organize them effectively. Especially important are arrangements regarding participation of stakeholders, accountability in governance, and the use of “boundary objects.” We conclude that improving the ability of research programs to produce useful knowledge for sustainable development will require both greater and differentiated support for multiple forms of boundary work.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document