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The science of sustainable development : local livelihoods and the global environment / Jeffrey Sayer, Bruce Campbell.

By:

Sayer, Jeffrey [author.]

Contributor(s):

Campbell, B. M. (Bruce Morgan), 1953- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: xix, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0521827280
9780521827287
0521534569
9780521534567

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

333.72 21

LOC classification:

S928 .S28 2004

Contents:

Foreword / Claude Martin -- Pt. I. Integrating natural resource management -- 1. The challenge: alleviating poverty and conserving the environment -- 2. Dealing with complexity -- 3. Getting into the system: multiple realities, social learning and adaptive management -- 4. Issues of scale -- 5. Models, knowledge and negotiation -- Pt. II. Realities on the ground -- 6. Institutions for managing natural resources in African savannas -- 7. Forest margins in Indonesia Borneo -- 8. Learning by doing on tropical American hillsides -- Pt. III. The research-management continuum -- 9. The spread of innovations -- 10. Measuring the performance of natural resource systems -- 11. Achieving research-based management.

Summary: "Science faces major challenges in tackling the interlinked problems of poverty and environmental sustainability. This book calls for a restructuring of our present arrangements to achieve integrated natural resource management--integration across scales, system components, disciplines and knowledge types. It advocates the necessity of modelling, multi-scale analysis and action research, institutional and organizational development, and communication enhancement. The book draws on case studies throughout the world."--Publisher description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	333.72 SAY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A261685B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-261) and index.

"Science faces major challenges in tackling the interlinked problems of poverty and environmental sustainability. This book calls for a restructuring of our present arrangements to achieve integrated natural resource management--integration across scales, system components, disciplines and knowledge types. It advocates the necessity of modelling, multi-scale analysis and action research, institutional and organizational development, and communication enhancement. The book draws on case studies throughout the world."--Publisher description.

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