Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods

Management of local resources has a greater chance of a sustainable outcome when there is partnership between local people and external agencies. This book analyses and extends this premise to show that the process of research for improving natural resource management must incorporate participatory and user-focused approaches.

Foreword by Joachim Voss, Director General, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) * Preface * Acknowledgements * Introduction: Uniting Science and Participation in the Process of Innovation - Research for Development * Navigating Complexity, Diversity and Dynamism: Reflections on Research for Natural Resource Management * Whose Research, Whose Agenda? * Scaling Up and Out * Transforming Institutions to Achieve Innovation in Research and Development * Principles for Good Practice in Participatory Research: Reflecting on Lessons from the Field * Participatory Research, Natural resource Management and Rural Transformation: More Lessons from the Field * Participation in Context: What's Past, What's Present, and What's Next * Annexe1: Summaries of Case Studies * Index