The Politics of People - Not Just Mangroves and Monkeys: A study of the theory and practice of community-based management of natural resources in Zanzibar

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The Politics of People - Not Just Mangroves and Monkeys : A study of the theory and practice of community-based management of natural resources in Zanzibar

Saunders, Fred (author): Södertörns högskola,Miljövetenskap,Geografi,COMREC

Hassler, Björn, Associate Professor (thesis advisor): Södertörns högskola,Institutionen för livsvetenskaper

Loiske, Vesa-Matti, Dr. (thesis advisor): Södertörns högskola,Institutionen för livsvetenskaper

Cleaver, Frances, Dr. (opponent): University of Bradford

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ISBN 9789186069315
Huddinge : Södertörns högskola, 2011
English 74 s.
Series: Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations, 1652-7399 ; 58

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Community-based management of natural resource (CBNRM) projects have commonly failed to deliver conservation and development benefits. This thesis examined how the theoretical assumptions of common pool resource (CPR) theory have contributed to the indifferent performance of CBNRM projects. Evidence was gathered from two CBNRM case studies in Zanzibar to show that CPR institutional design does not sufficiently acknowledge the politics or social relations of project sites. Moreover, these limitations reduce CPR theory's explanatory power and the functionality of CBNRM projects. This is because CPR theory's influence on CBNRM projects is to frame people with fixed identities and related interests as 'rational resource users', rather than people enrolled in multiple network relations with differentiated means of influence, interests and responsibilities. Actor-oriented theory is used to show that CBNRM would benefit from a shift in the correlation with institutional design factors to understanding the operation of power and conflict at project sites. These findings suggest that currently CBNRM projects are too mired in concern about regulating the 'direct' relationship between resource users and conservation objectives, with problematic implications. It is shown that actor-oriented theory is more sensitive to the different capacities, interests and strategies of actors in CBNRM institutional transformation processes. While actor-oriented theory does not offer a parsimonious or predictive theory to reform CPR theory or CBNRM policy, it can provide insights into pre-project conditions and emergent practice useful for explaining project interventions.

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NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Social och ekonomisk geografi -- Kulturgeografi (hsv//swe)
SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Social and Economic Geography -- Human Geography (hsv//eng)

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Actor-oriented theory
CBNRM
Community conservation
Conservation conflict
CPR theory
Environmental science
ICDP
Institutional theory
Mangroves
Participatory governance
Power
Zanzibar

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