This book presents case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America that demonstrate conflicts and disputes over natural resources - from verbal disputes to armed conflict and loss of life. These case studies as well as essays offer developing-world experience on ways to work collaboratively and avoid conflict.

This book may be of particular interest to Development practitioners working in the areas of natural resource management or conflict resolution as well as researchers, scholars, and students in political science, natural resource management, anthropology, development studies, and conflict resolution.

Contents

Foreword - Maureen O'Neil and Vinod Thomas

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Conflict and collaboration in natural resource management - Daniel Buckles and Gerett Rusnak
Concept: Culture

Chapter 1. Conflict management: A heterocultural perspective - Jacques M. Chevalier and Daniel Buckles

Part 1. Forestry

• Chapter 2. Nam Ngum, Lao PDR: Community-based natural resource management and conflicts over watershed resources - Philip Hirsch, Khamla Phanvilay, and Kaneungnit Tubtim
• Chapter 3. The Nusa Tenggara uplands, Indonesia: Multiple-site lessons in conflict management - Larry Fisher, Ilya Moeliono, and Stefan Wodicka
• Chapter 4. Jabalpur District, Madhya Pradesh, India: Minimizing conflict in joint forest management - Shashi Kant and Roshan Cooke
  Concept: Society
• Chapter 5. Stakeholder analysis and conflict management - Ricardo Ramírez

Part 2. Coastal Areas

• Chapter 6. Cahuita, Limón, Costa Rica: From conflict to collaboration - Viviane Weitzner and Marvin Fonseca Borrás
• Chapter 7. Bolinao, northern Philippines: Participatory planning for coastal development - Liana Talaue-McManus, Alexis C. Yambao, Severino G. Salmo III, and Porfirio M. Aliño
• Chapter 8. The Galapagos Islands: Conflict management in conservation and sustainable resource management - Paola Oviedo
  Concept: Peace
• Chapter 9. Peace and conflict impact assessment - Kenneth D. Bush and Robert J. Opp

Part 3. Land Use

• Chapter 10. The Nuba Mountains of Sudan: Resource access, violent conflict, and identity - Mohamed Suliman
• Chapter 11. Copán, Honduras: Collaboration for identity, equity, and sustainability - Jacqueline Chenier, Stephen Sherwood, and Tahnee Robertson
• Chapter 12. The Laguna Merin Basin of Uruguay: From protecting the natural heritage to managing sustainable development - Carlos Pérez Arrarte and Guillermo Scarlato
• Chapter 13. Matagalpa, Nicaragua: New paths for participatory management in the Calico River watershed - Ronnie Vernooy and Jacqueline A. Ashby
  Concept: Policy
• Chapter 14. Policy implications of natural resource conflict management - Stephen R. Tyler

Appendices

Appendix 1. Contributing authors
Appendix 2. Acronyms and abbreviations
Appendix 3. About the publishers and editor

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