Sharing power and natural resources governance

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Contributors of the file: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), The World Conservation Union (IUCN), The IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP), CEESP Co-management Working Group (CEES-CWMG), Centre for Sustainable Development & Environment (CENESTA)

This file is presenting articles written by Mary Rodeghier and Clara Jamart, based on « Sharing Power: Learning by Doing in Comanagement of Natural Resources throughout the World ».

This collective work was published in 2004 by Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Michel Pimbert, M.Taghi Farvar, Ashish Kothari, Yves Renard et al. It gives a whole enlightening reflection about the shared management of natural ressources and tools needed.

Considering aGter’s mind, we wish to make syntesis that report main elements of this publication available and understandable for all.

This file contains four major articles that highlights the main ideas of the book. Each of these articles is then illustrated with additional that specify the analysis and provide concrete examples of tools for co-management.

We invite you to discover the other elements and the structure of this file in the tables below:

Networked papers

• Sharing Power: The sustainable management of natural resources is a political choice

• Sharing Power: Natural resource management and participatory democracy

• Sharing Power: Co-management and effective governance

• Sharing Power: Sustainable Management of Natural Resources

Other documents

• Involving local communities in projects and policies for the sustainable management of natural resources: two significant examples

• What is decentralisation? Why is it an interesting tool to promote a sustainable co-management of natural resources?

• Example of international agreements that promote co-management principles

• Sharing Power : ATTAC’s policy proposals in favour of local governance

• Sharing Power : The Equatorian constitution

• Sharing Power : A few examples of policies that defend the values of participation, subsidiarity, and empowerment in natural resources management throughout the world.

• Sharing Power : The influence of foreign agencies might restrict the freedom of action of political decision-makers

• Sharing Power: A few policy suggestions for the construction of alternative societies that promote more sustainable and fairer natural resources management

• Sharing Power : How might participatory democracy be privileged?

• Sharing Power: A few examples of the application of participatory methods in designing environmental policies

• Sharing Power :How might the efficaciousness of participatory methods be ensured?

• Sharing Power : Three great strategies for strengthening the civil society

• Sharing Power : Challenges for implementing a system of co-management

• Sharing Power: Co-management as a polyvalent tool

• Sharing Power : Indigenous Communities and the Co-management of Natural Resources

• Sharing Power: Co-management agreements