Adaptive Cross-scalar Governance of Natural Resources
Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management Series

Natural resource governance is critical for linking poverty reduction and sustainable natural resource use. This book brings together authors from various disciplines with extensive field experience to promote an integrative understanding of cross-scale and adaptive governance in Africa and Latin America. The authors make the case for reaching beyond decentralization to promote adaptive governance that serves local priorities, but through interactions with local, district, national and global governance structures. The book focuses on the governance of common pool resources such as forests, wildlife, water, carbon and pasture resources in both Africa and Latin America.

This book will appeal to development practitioners and scholars concerned about the conservation of natural resources and the sustainable development of communities. It synthesizes experience with the governance of different natural resources from a broad geographic perspective. It also provides theoretical and practical suggestions for taking adaptive natural resource governance forward, including participatory methods for measuring and monitoring governance.

Part 1: Introduction and Definition of Natural Resource Governance 1. Introduction 2. Theory and Conceptual Foundations of Natural Resource Governance Part 2: Property Rights and Natural Resource Governance 3. The Role and Dynamics of Property Rights in Natural Resource Governance 4. Examining the Role of Property Rights and Forest Policy in Forest Governance: Lessons from Mexico, Bolivia, and Cameroon Part 3: Global and National Scale Governance of Natural Resources 5. Perspectives on International Initiatives for the Governance of Natural Resources: Possibilities and Limitations 6. National and Transnational Land Grabs in Africa: Implications for Local Resource Governance 7. Wildlife Governance in Africa Part 4: Meso Level and Cross-scalar Natural Resource Governance 8. Cross-scalar Governance and the Role of the Meso-level : The Case of the Okavango Delta Management Plan, Botswana 9. Governing an Intangible Natural Resource: Experience from Two Pilot REDD Projects in Tanzania 10. Elite Capture: A Comparative Case Study of Meso-level Governance in Four Southern Africa Countries Part 5: Measuring and Monitoring Governance 11. Using the Governance Dashboard to Measure, Understand and Change Micro-governance 12. Participatory Methods for Measuring and Monitoring Governance Part 6: Towards Participatory and Adaptive Governance 13. East African Pastoralism and the Governance of Grazing Land: Case Studies from Kenya 14. Conclusions

Grenville Barnes is a Professor of Geomatics in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida, USA.

Brian Child is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Center for African Studies at the University of Florida, USA.