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"In Ethiopian development policies, pastoralist areas have recently attracted more attention. However, much debate and policy advice is still based on assumptions that see a sedentary lifestyle as the desirable development outcome for pastoralist communities. This paper investigates current...
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has focused on diagnosing the links between natural resource competition and (violent) conflict, much less has focused on … attention to the role of natural resource competition in the livelihoods of the rural poor. While significant empirical research … the dynamics of whether and how resource competition can be transformed to strengthen social-ecological resilience and …
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Forest conflict in Asia is on the rise as various stakeholders have different views about and interests in the … on how rights (or a lack thereof) instigate conflict and how collective action plays a role in conflict management, this … performed. Conflict was found to emerge in the context of the rapid economic development, where communities' deep connection to …
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Water governance reforms are underway in many parts of the developing world. They address the principles, institutions, and legal and administrative practices through which decisions are made on the development, allocation, and conditions of use of water resources at all levels of society. As...
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"This paper leverages datasets and results from two separate studies carried out across eight Kajiado group ranches and offers a unique opportunity to look at emergent pre- and postsubdivision trends from an interdisciplinary framework that combines ecological, political, and human-ecological...
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and service delivery outcomes. Organizations closer to areas with past conflict events face greater risks of conflict re … agricultural services to their members. This result implies some evidence of negative relationship of conflict and collective …
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Irrigation Administration, and the National Power Corporation (Pulangui IV). As demand for water outstrips supply, conflict … users. To avoid hostile confrontation between different user groups and to manage competition of water use, some user groups … voluntary agreements facilitate conflict management of a disputed resource, but the fairness and equity of such agreements are …
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This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of community–based adaptation (CBA) efforts. To start, it develops and describes a framework on adaptation to climate change used as the basis for this research. The paper then defines the characteristics or principles of...
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to address natural resource conflict in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake. Employing the Appreciation-Influence-Control (AIC … resource governance, even amidst ongoing resource conflict. We conclude with a set of lessons learned to guide such efforts in …
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peacebuilding, conflict prevention, and longer-term social-ecological resilience. While researchers have made important advances in … recent years in assessing the role of environmental resources as a causal factor in civil conflict, analysis of the positive … potential of collective natural resource management efforts to reduce broader conflict is less developed. In particular, there …
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