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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784947003321

Titolo

Community rights, conservation and contested land : the politics of natural resource governance in Africa / / edited by Fred Nelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Washington, D.C. : , : Earthscan, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-54173-X

1-136-54174-8

1-282-72642-0

9786612726422

1-84977-505-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NelsonFred <1976->

Disciplina

333.72096

Soggetti

Nature conservation - Government policy - Africa

Conservation of natural resources - Government policy - Africa

Biodiversity - Government policy - Africa

Land tenure - Africa

Community development - Africa

Political participation - Africa

Africa Environmental conditions

Africa Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Contributors; Preface; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Part 1: Introduction; 1. Introduction: The Politics of Natural Resource Governance in Africa: Fred Nelson; 2. Agrarian Social Change and Post-Colonial Natural Resource Management Interventions in Southern Africa's 'Communal Tenure' Regimes: James C. Murombedzi; Part 2: Political Economies of Natural Resource Governance

3. The Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Botswana: Liz Rihoy and Brian Maguranyanga4. Peasants' Forests and the King's Game? Institutional Divergence and Convergence in



Tanzania's Forestry and Wildlife Sectors: Fred Nelson and Tom Blomley; 5. The Evolution of Namibia's Communal Conservancies: Brian Jones; 6. Historic and Contemporary Struggles for a Local Wildlife Governance Regime in Kenya: Ngeta Kabiri; Part 3: Local Struggles and Negotiations across Multiple Scales

7. Windows of Opportunity or Exclusion? Local Communities in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area, South Africa: Webster Whande8. 'People are Not Happy': Crisis, Adaptation and Resilience in Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE Programme: Liz Rihoy, Chaka Chirozva and Simon Anstey; 9. The Rise and Fall of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Zambia's Luangwa Valley: An Illustration of Micro- and Macro-Governance Issues: Rodgers Lubilo and Brian Child; 10. External Agency and Local Authority: Facilitating CBNRM in Mahel, Mozambique: Marta Monjane

11. Adaptive or Anachronistic? Maintaining Indigenous Natural Resource Governance Systems in Northern Botswana: Masego Madzwamuse12. Pastoral Activists: Negotiating Power Imbalances in the Tanzanian Serengeti: Maanda Ngoitiko, Makko Sinandei, Partalala Meitaya and Fred Nelson; Part 4: Looking Forward; 13. A Changing Climate for Community Resource Governance: Threats and Opportunities from Climate Change and the Emerging Carbon Market: Maxwell Gomera, Liz Rihoy and Fred Nelson; 14. Democratizing Natural Resource Governance: Searching for Institutional Change: Fred Nelson; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities. The institutional arrangements that define natural resource governance are outcomes of political processes, whereby numerous groups with often-divergent interests negotiate for access to and control over resources. These political processes determine the outcomes of resource governance reform efforts, such as widespread attempts to decentralize or devolve greater tenure over land and resources to local communities. This volume examines the political dynamics of natural resource governance processes through a range of comparative case studies across east and southern Africa. These cases include both local and national settings, and examine issues such as land rights, tourism development, wildlife conservation, participatory forest management, and the impacts of climate change, and are drawn from both academics and field practitioners working across the region."--Publisher's description.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141513103321

Titolo

Rasch models in health [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Karl Bang Christensen, Svend Kreiner, Mounir Mesbah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J. : , : ISTE Ltd/John Wiley and Sons Inc, , 2013

ISBN

1-118-57454-0

1-118-57445-1

1-299-06834-0

1-118-57444-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages)

Collana

Applied mathematics series

Altri autori (Persone)

ChristensenKarl Bang

KreinerSvend

MesbahMounir

Disciplina

614.4072

Soggetti

Rasch models

Medicine - Research - Statistical methods

Medical sciences - Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Probabilistic models -- pt. 2. Inference in the Rasch model -- pt. 3. Checking the Rasch model -- pt. 4. Applying the Rasch model -- pt. 5. Creating, translating and improving Rasch scales -- pt. 6. Analyzing and reporting Rasch models.

Sommario/riassunto

The family of statistical models known as Rasch models started with a simple model for responses to questions in educational tests presented together with a number of related models that the Danish mathematician Georg Rasch referred to as models for measurement. Since the beginning of the 1950's the use of Rasch models has grown and has spread from education to the measurement of health status. This book contains a comprehensive overview of the statistical theory of Rasch models.Part 1 contains the probabilistic definition of Rasch models, Part 2 describes the estimation of item and pe