The Community Resource Management Plan: A Tool for Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Systems into Natural Resource Management

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phosiso Sola
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Community Resource ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems ◽  
Community Resource Management

Identifying Training Needs to Improve Indigenous Community Representatives Input into Environmental Resource Management Consultative Processes: A case study of the Bundjalung Nation

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lloyd ◽  
Fiona Norrie
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems

AbstractDespite increased engagement of Indigenous representatives as participants on consultative panels charged with processes of natural resource management, concerns have been raised by both Indigenous representatives and management agencies regarding the ability of Indigenous people to have quality input into the decisions these processes produce. In order to determine how to more effectively engage Australian Aboriginal peoples in the management process, this article describes the results of interviews with Elders of the Bundjalung Nation and other community representatives who represent their community's interests on natural resource management boards within their traditional country. Community representatives identified the factors they considered important in understanding natural resource management and administrative processes and where training would enable them to make a significant contribution to the consultation process. It also highlighted a need for non-Indigenous managers to gain a greater understanding of Indigenous knowledge systems and protocols.

Experts' Perspectives on the Integration of Indigenous Knowledge and Science in Wet Tropics Natural Resource Management

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Gratani ◽  
Erin L. Bohensky ◽  
James R.A. Butler ◽  
Stephen G. Sutton ◽  
Simon Foale
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Wet Tropics

scholarly journals The community resource management area mechanism: a strategy to manage African forest resources for REDD+

2013 ◽  
Vol 368 (1625) ◽  
pp. 20120311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca A. Asare ◽  
Andrew Kyei ◽  
John J. Mason
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Community Resource ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Management Area ◽  
Community Resource Management

Climate change poses a significant threat to Africa, and deforestation rates have increased in recent years. Mitigation initiatives such as REDD+ are widely considered as potentially efficient ways to generate emission reductions (or removals), conserve or sustainably manage forests, and bring benefits to communities, but effective implementation models are lacking. This paper presents the case of Ghana's Community Resource Management Area (CREMA) mechanism, an innovative natural resource governance and landscape-level planning tool that authorizes communities to manage their natural resources for economic and livelihood benefits. This paper argues that while the CREMA was originally developed to facilitate community-based wildlife management and habitat protection, it offers a promising community-based structure and process for managing African forest resources for REDD+. At a theoretical level, it conforms to the ecological, socio-cultural and economic factors that drive resource-users’ decision process and practices. And from a practical mitigation standpoint, the CREMA has the potential to help solve many of the key challenges for REDD+ in Africa, including definition of boundaries, smallholder aggregation, free prior and informed consent, ensuring permanence, preventing leakage, clarifying land tenure and carbon rights, as well as enabling equitable benefit-sharing arrangements. Ultimately, CREMA's potential as a forest management and climate change mitigation strategy that generates livelihood benefits for smallholder farmers and forest users will depend upon the willingness of African governments to support the mechanism and give it full legislative backing, and the motivation of communities to adopt the CREMA and integrate democratic decision-making and planning with their traditional values and natural resource management systems.

Of biodiversity and boundaries: a case study of community-based natural resource management practice in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMANDA LO CASCIO ◽  
RUTH BEILIN
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Community Forestry ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Local People ◽  
Community Based

SUMMARYIn the Cardamom Ranges (Cambodia) community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is proposed by the international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) community as a natural resource management strategy to achieve the targeted outcomes associated with the protected area (PA) management plan. Local people are expected to participate in CBNRM projects such as community forestry (CF) in order that the protected area management plan can be realized. The experiences of the local people are juxtaposed against the aims of these local biodiversity projects. Overall, it is accepted by the NGOs and government agencies that communities need to be involved in the design and management of the PA and that the protection of biodiversity resources can only occur with the provision of alternatives for local livelihood options to decrease land clearing for agriculture and harvesting of wild foods and animals. This case points to a basic misalignment between biodiversity conservation and CBNRM. Participants in this study contested the meaning and usefulness of the PA and the CF projects. Their concerns were cultural, social, economic and political, exposing uneven relations of power and uncertainty associated with the long term outcomes. Participation itself required scrutiny in this situation, as did the promotion of a global biodiversity ‘good’ over local understandings of place and landscape. Lessons from more than 20 years of participatory CBNRM may be used to reconfigure the CBNRM ideal, to assist planners and implementers towards an integrated approach with biodiversity values reflected in both conservation and local production systems, acknowledging that these systems are culturally constituted.

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