natural resource management Articles

Microfinance, social capital and natural resource management systems: conceptual issues and empirical evidences

This paper attempts to trace the causes and consequences of natural resources' degradation as stated from various reviews. The paper also attempts to link poverty, environmental degradation and conceptual issues involved in recovery of natural resources through building social capital. This is a review of various papers on microfinance programmes undertaken in natural resource management ...

Jun. 5, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers
Book Review: Using Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Natural Resource Management by Gamini Herath and Tony Prato

Using Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Natural Resource Management, by Gamini Herath and Tony Prato. Aldershot (UK), Burlington (USA), Ashgate, 2006. 239pp. ISBN: 0-7546-4596-7Keywords: book ...

Nov. 21, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers
Indigenous knowledge and culture on natural resources management in the Salween canyon, Yunnan Province, China

This research tries to find out some indigenous knowledge and culture on natural resources management in the Salween canyon, Yunnan Province, China. The indigenous people studied are some minority nationalities including Lisu, Nu, Dulong, Tibetan and Bai. Methodology mainly includes field research, the use of key informants, secondary data, unstructured interview and ocular observation. Findings ...

Jun. 30, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers
Climate change issues: challenges for Natural Resource Management in Bangladesh - a way forward

This study aimed to understand the climate change issues in Bangladesh by focusing on the specific operational guidance to Natural Resource Management (NRM) over time. The specific justification is used to figure out the factors that are responsible. To have an effective plan and guideline, this study has emphasised on some direct required actions and alternative options for long-run measures. ...

Jan. 1, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers
The Asta–Ja management capacity–building framework (Asta–Ja MCBF) for sustainable development in Nepal

Capacity–building is essential to sustainable environmental and natural resources management and fast–paced socio–economic transformation. Capacity–building requires the involved commitment of individuals, community organisations, private businesses, academic institutions, governmental agencies, and other stakeholders. As population and the corresponding demand on environmental and natural ...

Oct. 26, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers
Natural resources management in South Australia – regional and collaborative approaches

Experiences with three approaches intended to achieve increasing levels of regional and collaborative engagement – Ministerial water advisory committees, Catchment Water Management Boards and Natural Resources Management Boards – are examined over the period from the 1970s to early 2014. Attention focuses on two tensions: (1) whether to have a system-wide or regional focus and (2) ...

Aug. 6, 2015

By IWA Publishing
Climate change issues: challenges for Natural Resource Management in Bangladesh – a way forward

This study aimed to understand the climate change issues in Bangladesh by focusing on the specific operational guidance to Natural Resource Management (NRM) over time. The specific justification is used to figure out the factors that are responsible. To have an effective plan and guideline, this study has emphasised on some direct required actions and alternative options for long-run measures. ...

Jun. 18, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers
Sustainable natural resource management through multi-regional cooperation

Management of natural resources has clear implications for local, national, and supranational territorial units because of diverse and fundamental implications linked to how and where they are managed. There is a strong need to go beyond local, regional or even national administrative borders, redesigning new geographical areas and starting cross-border cooperative actions for more sustainable ...

Jan. 26, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers
Major paradigm shifts in NRM in Australia

This paper examines the influence of global discourses on policies and programmes for Natural Resource Management (NRM) in Australia, and the emergence of 56 formalised regional NRM bodies and their community-based Boards of management with responsibilities for NRM planning and implementation. It traces the emergence of the 'landcare movement' and the trend toward 'Integrated Catchment Management ...

Dec. 6, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers
Mongolia - Environment and natural resource management socio-economic survey (ENRMSS 2010)

Mongolia has very significant natural resources and a large part of the population is dependent on them for their daily living. The impact of the state of the environment on the living standards of herders is obvious, but also Mongolians living in the capital Ulaanbaatar have learned that air pollution, especially in winter, and other environmental problems have a deep impact on their living ...

Jan. 9, 2013

By IWA Publishing
Source Catchments - Better Future for Catchment Managers

Applying a whole-of-catchment approach to water management is now possible thanks to Source Catchments, the first component of eWater’s integrated water modelling suite, eWater Source to be publicly released. A water quality and quantity model, Source Catchments is designed to help natural resource managers and consultants develop targets, prioritise improvement programs and measure ...

Mar. 3, 2012

By IWA Publishing
Integral local development: "accommodating multiple interests" through entrustment and accountable representation

Accommodating multiple interests involves integrating across highly stratified societies. Integral local development is a means of integrating across these interests through locally accountable representative authorities entrusted with public powers. It is integral to the local community because it is based on democratic representation – where "democratic" is substantively defined ...

Feb. 3, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers
Improving Health in Ucayali, Peru: A Multisector and Multilevel Analysis

We review the key determinants of health in Ucayali, Peru, identified by researchers, and, according to these, propose a set of tools to improve health in this area. Women and indigenous peoples are recognized as two vulnerable groups in the region that face greater health risks, and these are the main focus of the development of tools for health improvement. Also, the growing economic ...

Mar. 1, 2005

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
A joint, international masters degree in sustainability: how a truly global programme was established

A jointly taught and jointly awarded masters programme has been established between Lincoln University (LU), New Zealand and Universitat fur Bodenkultur, Wien (BOKU), Austria. The degree is an international joint 'Master of Natural Resources Management and Ecological Engineering' (MNaRMEE). Its main feature is a sustainability in national and international settings. It includes four ...

Mar. 12, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers
Role of self-help groups in generating microcredits and linking natural resource management in Karnataka: macro and micro level analysis

Formation of Self-help Groups (SHGs) in rural areas to generate microcredits has become viable units to support various activities related to agriculture, dairy, fishery, and rural industrial enterprises. Besides, it has limited focus on natural resource conservation and management. This paper attempts to examine the spread and performance of SHGs and their role in generation of microfinances to ...

Jun. 5, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers
Establishing a space sector for sustainable development in Kenya

To expeditiously address fundamental national development needs e.g., health, education, food security and natural resource management; Kenya needs to invoke space-based technologies. A vibrant domestic space sector further spawns a plethora of other space-related opportunities – congruous with the government's long-term planning strategy; Kenya Vision 2030. We specifically analyse Kenya's ...

Jan. 1, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers
Research trends in resource and environmental management: a review of the literature

Environmental and resource management have often been at odds with industrialisation and rapid economic growth and this is apparent when reviewing the cases of growing economies of China and India. This article reviews the literature and concludes that not only promoting effective natural resource management contributes to price stability, availability of products and long-term employment, but ...

Jan. 28, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers
The expansion of participatory governance in the environmental policies of developing countries: the example of Madagascar

The notion of governance is often considered to be essential, particularly by international institutions in developing countries, to improve the efficiency of policies and to strengthen the legitimacy of the aid. This article aims to clarify the various meanings of this notion and to analyse the policies for devolution of management of natural resources to local communities. The participatory ...

Oct. 4, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers
New partnership mechanisms for integrated natural resource management: the Red River Basin (Vietnam) pilot region for operational ecoregional approach

The Red River Basin (RRB) in Vietnam was selected in 1997 as the first ecoregional pilot site of the Ecoregional Initiative for the Humid and Subhumid Tropics of Asia (EcoR(I)-Asia) as it encapsulates many of the problems and issues commonly found in the Asian tropics, associated with the demands and pressures of rapidly increasing population and rapid economic development on the natural resource ...

Feb. 3, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers
Climate Change, Various Adaptation Efforts are Underway at Key Natural Resource Management Agencies

This report examines (1) steps key federal natural resource management agencies—Forest Service, NOAA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management—have taken since 2007 to address adaptation and (2) how these agencies have collaborated at the national level on adaptation since 2007. GAO analyzed the agencies’ climate change adaptation guidance ...

Jul. 8, 2013

By IWA Publishing

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