Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword Acknowledgements List of figures List of tables List of boxes Acronyms and abbreviations Biographies of authors Part I: 1 Introduction 1. Introduction: poverty and environment in practice 2. Community-based natural resource management: a research approach to rural poverty and environmental degradation Part II: Community-based natural resource management in action 3. Community-based natural resource management and decentralized governance in Ratanakiri, Cambodia 4. Participatory local planning for resource governance in the Tam Giang lagoon, Vietnam 5. Towards upland sustainable development: livelihood gains and resource management in central Vietnam 6. Co-management of Pastureland in Mongolia 7. Exclusion, accommodation and community-based natural resource management: legitimizing the enclosure of a community fishery in southern Laos Part III: From local action to policy impact 8. Building networks of support for community-based coastal resource management in Cambodia 9. Scaling up community-based natural resource management in Guizhou province, China 10. Walking the extra mile: from field learning to natural resource management research and policy in Bhutan 11. Strengthening local voices to inform national policy: community forestry in Cambodia 12. Harmonizing ancestral domain with local governance in the Cordillera of the northern Philippines 13. Shaping the key to fit the lock: participatory action research and community forestry in the Philippines Part IV: Poverty, community and policy impact in action research 14. Creating options for the poor through participatory research 15. Exclusive, moi? Natural resource management, poverty, inequality and gender in Asia 16. Community-based natural resource management communitiesin action 17. Shaping policy from the field 18. Conclusions: community-based natural resource management in action Notes References Index

About the Author

Stephen R. Tyler is President, Adaptive Resource Management Ltd. He directed a program of action research for Community-Based NRM in Asia for 7 years, as program team leader with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and has worked with partners throughout Asia on applied research in the field of environment and development for 16 years. He served as consultant to Asian Development Bank, World Bank, CIDA, and other international organizations and has a PhD from University of California, Berkeley (City and Regional Planning, developing countries).