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The Politics of Community-Based Conservation in Natural Resource Management: A Focus for International Comparative Analysis

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  • Theresa Selfa

    (Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Kansas State University, 204 Waters Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506-4003, USA)

  • Joanna Endter-Wada

    (Utah State University, Department of Environment and Society, Logan, UT 84332-5215, USA)

Abstract

The promotion of increased community participation in natural resource management and conservation by international and state natural resource agencies rests on the assumption that local communities that have connections to, knowledge about, and interests in proximate resources should participate in the management of those resources. By using a political ecology approach, three case studies of natural resource management are analyzed which span industrialized and developing world contexts—agro-ecological zoning in the western Amazon, a social forestry project in the southern Philippines, and a forest plan revision process in southern Utah. We suggest the need for more attention to how communities are defined and how participation is formalized by institutions, as well as to contested meanings of conservation. We find that, despite espousing agendas of community-based conservation, international and state agencies retain authority over key decisions about natural resource management, use, and allocation.

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  • Theresa Selfa & Joanna Endter-Wada, 2008. "The Politics of Community-Based Conservation in Natural Resource Management: A Focus for International Comparative Analysis," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 40(4), pages 948-965, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:40:y:2008:i:4:p:948-965
    DOI: 10.1068/a39160
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    1. Calfucura, Enrique, 2018. "Governance, Land and Distribution: A Discussion on the Political Economy of Community-Based Conservation," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 145(C), pages 18-26.

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