Communities, Livelihoods, and Natural Resources
Action Research and Policy Change in Asia
Stephen R. Tyler
Paper: 978 1 85339 638 0
Price: $31.95  

Publisher: Practical Action
September 2006 , 412 pp., 6 1/8" x 9 1/4"
figures, tables and boxes
This book synthesizes results from a 7-year program of applied research on community-based approaches to natural resource management in Asia. By presenting field reports of innovative approaches to poverty reduction and sustainable resource use, it provides practitioners with models of "good practice" in participatory, community-based resource management, and it demonstrates how site-based research contributes to broader learning in the field of natural resource management and policy.

There are eleven case studies featured, from some of the most marginal areas of rural China, Mongolia, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Bhutan. The cases (each one authored by local researchers) illustrate practical innovations to strengthen livelihoods through improved collective resource management practices and broader technology choices. These experiences point to changes in well-being and empowerment for the rural poor.

Table of Contents:
Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of figures, tables and boxes; Acronyms and abbreviations; Biographies of authors; PART I: INTRODUCTION: 1) Introduction: poverty and environment in practice—Stephen R. Tyler; 2) Community-based natural resource management: a research approach to rural poverty and environmental degradation—Stephen R. Tyler; PART II: COMMUNITY-BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANGEMENT IN ACTION: 3) Community-based national resource management and decentralized governance in Ratanakiri, Cambodia—Ashish Joshia Ingty John and Chea Phalla; 4) Participatory local planning for resource governance in the Tam Giang lagoon, Vietnam—Truong Van Huyen, Ton That Chat, Chau Thi Tuyet Hanh, Duong Viet Tinh, Nguyen Thi Thanh, Nguyen Thi Tuyet Suong, Le Thi Nam Thuan and Ton That Phap; 5) Towards upland sustainable development: livelihood gains and resource management in central Vietnam—Le Can An; 6) Co-management of Pastureland in Mongolia—H. Ykhanbai and E. Bulgan; 7) Exclusion, accommodation and community-based natural resource management: legitimizing the enclosure of a community fishery in southern Laos—Nattaya Tubtim; PART III: FROM LOCAL ACTION TO POLICY IMPACT: 8) Building networks of support for community-based coastal resource management in Cambodia—Kim Nong and Melissa Marschke; 9) Scaling up community-based natural resource management in Guizhou province, China—Yuan Juanwen and Sun Qui; 17) Shaping policy from the field—Stephen R. Tyler and Hein Mallee; 18) Conclusions: community-based natural resource management in action—Stephen R. Tyler.


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