Features
Global fisheries collapse to hit Africa first: African waters among most likely to experience collapsing fisheries due to overfishing and poor management. read...
CBCRM RC and NFR statement on the oil spill: The Petron/Solar 1 oil spill shows the failure of corporations to concretize their social responsibility and of government to perform its regulatory functions. read...
E-group discussion on learning communities plus summary: Blog records the postings of RC fellows and participants from the IASCP conference in Oaxaca, Mexico. read...
W-T-O spells emptier oceans: Resource Center's statement on the WTO HK Ministerial Meeting. read...
Post-tsunami regional consultation: Report on the Colombo post-tsunami regional consultation, 15-17 June 2005. read...
OD Research Report: Survey of frameworks and experiences of OD work in the Philippines. read...
Welcome to the CBNRM LC Resource Guide on Citizenship and Governance
Featured resource
Citizenship and the boundaries of the acknowledged community: identity, affiliation and exclusion
by Naila Kabeer, Institute of Development Studies 2002, 48 pp.
This working paper examines the interaction of two different forms of citizen belonging, and the rights and responsibilities associated with these: membership of the imagined community of the nation-state, and membership of various acknowledged communities at the sub-national level. In these two levels, the author investigates processes of access and exclusion -- both separately and in interaction with each other. The paper aims to contribute to the development of a research agenda on the theme of "inclusive citizenship", particularly the challenges it presents in the context of poorer southern countries today. A PDF copy is available on the participation.net website (www.pnet.ids.ac.uk). read full text...
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Different Gardens, Different Blooms: an analysis of the experience with community based coastal resource management in the Philippines, Viet Nam and Cambodia
by Rebecca Rivera-Guieb, Jennifer Graham, Melissa Marschke and Gary F. Newkirk, IASCP 2004, 30 pp.
The paper examines the experiences of CBCRM in the Philippines, Viet Nam and Cambodia, drawing upon the authors' experiences working in the region. Specifically, factors such as the impacts of decentralization processes, scale, sustainability and equity issues were probed. Presented at the 10th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP), Oaxaca, Mexico, 9-13 August 2004. A online copy (PDF) is available for downloading in the Digital Library of the Commons. read full text...
List of resources
Social Movements, Environmental Governance, and Rural Territorial Development: An International Perspective
by Adam Schachhuber, York University 2004, 63 pp.
Surveys and synthesizes a large body of existing social scientific literature drawn from several academic disciplines in order to establish the necessary conditions for answering a series of working questions, including: Do new institutions and organizations environmental governance established as a result of the actions of social movements contribute to processes of rural territorial development which coincide with the elimination of poverty, the overcoming of socio-economic, gender, and ethnic inequalities, as well as the conservation of natural resources and the environment? read full text ...
