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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455400403321

Titolo

Beyond proprietorship [[electronic resource] ] : Murphrees's laws on community-based natural resources management in southern Africa / / edited by B.B. Mukamuri, J.M. Manjengwa & S. Anstey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Avondale, Harare, : Weaver Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-27506-2

9786612275067

1-55250-424-7

1-77922-117-7

1-77922-103-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AnsteySimon

ManjengwaJ. M

MukamuriBilly B

Disciplina

333.70968

Soggetti

Environmental management - Africa, Southern

Natural resources management areas - Africa, Southern

Natural resources - Management - Africa, Southern

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Murphree's Laws, Principles, Rules & Definitions; 3 Rethinking the Building Blocks: A Critique of Demand Driven Decentralisation in Chizvirizvi Resettlement Area in Chiredzi District of Zimbabwe; 4 Beacon & Barometer: CBNRM & evolutions in Local Democracy in Southern Africa; 5 Global-local linkages: The meanings of CBNRM in global conservation politics; 6 Rural Institutions: Challenges and Prospects for the active participation in Natural Resources Governance in Zimbabwe

7 More than Socially Embedded: The Distinctive Character of 'Communal Tenure' Regimes in South Africa & its Implications for Policy8 Conflicts & Commercialization Pressures over Forest Resources in the Post-Fast Track Land Reform Context in Zimbabwe: A case of Seke Communal Lands; 9 Gender Issues Surrounding Water



Development & Management in Chishawasha Settlement Area; 10 Participatory Development of Community-based Management Plans for Livestock Feed Resources in Semi-arid Areas of Zimbabwe: Experiences from Lower Guruve District; 11 Local Environmental Action Planning: Making it Work

12 Trying to Make Sense of it All: Dealing with the Complexities of Community Based Natural Resource Management13 Taking Murphree's Principles into the Future: The Research & Development Issues for CBNRM Initiatives in Southern Africa; Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Dr Marshall Murphree is a prominent scholar in the fields of common property theory, rural development, and natural resource management. After graduating from the London School of Economics with a doctorate in social anthropology, he returned home to Zimbabwe to work as a missionary before joining the University of Zimbabwe, where he became director, and subsequently Professor Emeritus, of the Centre for Applied Social Sciences. Beyond Proprietorship presents a range of contributions to the May 2007 conference held to honour Murphree's work, and it conveys his central concerns of equality and