Integrated Natural Resources Management: Linking Productivity, the Environment and Development
Readership
Forestry, soil and environmental sciences, ecology and conservation, agricultural economics and development studies.
Main Description
This book discusses both the principles and applications of an integrated approach to natural resources management. It deals directly with the wider integration of natural resources, including the complexity of systems and redirecting research towards including participatory approaches, multi-scale analysis and an array of tools for system analysis, information management and impact asessment.
This book has been developed from papers first presented at a workshop in Penang, Malaysia in 2000. Each paper has been peer-reviewed, revised and updated up to the end of 2002. Case studies from around the world, particularly Asia, Africa and Latin America, are presented by international experts.
Reviews
• "This book will be an invaluable addition to the few books already on this issue, and will be of use for students and researchers engaged in agricultural and environmental sciences."
M Ashraf, Biological Agriculture & Horticulture, 22, 2005
Main Contents
• Research to integrate productivity enchancement, environmental protection and human development, J A Sayer and B M Campbell
• Blending "hard" and "soft" science: the "follow-the-technology" approach to catalyzing and evaluating technology change, B Douthwaite, N C de Haan, V M Manyong and D Keatinge, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria
• Success factors in integrated natural resource management R&D: lessons from practice, J Hagmann, Talstrasse, Germany, E Chuma, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, K Murwira, Intermediate Techology Development Group, Zimbabwe, M Connolly, Agritex-GTZ, Zimbabwe and P Ficarelli, Broadening Agricultural Service Delivery Programme, South Africa
• The adaptive decision-making process as a tool for integrated natural resource management: focus, attitudes, and approach, P Lal, H Lim-Applegate and M Scoccimarro, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
• Negotiation support models for integrated natural resource management in tropical forest margins, M van Noordwijk, ICRAF, Indonesia, T P Tomich, ICRAF, Kenya and B Verbist, ICRAF, Indonesia
• The question of scale in integrated natural resource management, C Lovell, formerly at Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK, A Mandondo, University of Zimbabwe and P Moriarty, International Water and Sanitation, The Netherlands
• Delivering the goods: scaling out results of natural resource management research, L Harrington, J White, CIMMYT, Mexico, P Grace, Sinclair Knight Merz, Australia, D Hodson, CIMMYT, Mexico, A Dewi Hartkamp, Wageningen University, Netherlands, C Vaughan, WILD Project, Namibia and C Meisner, CIMMYT, Bangladesh
• Adapting science to adaptive managers: spidergrams, belief models and multi-agent systems modeling, T Lynam, University of Zimbabwe, F Bousquet, C Le Page, P d'Aquino, CIRAD Tera, France, O Barreteau, CEMAGREF, France, F Chinembiri, Agritex, Zimbabwe and B Mombeshora, Farming Systems Research Unit, Zimbabwe
• Spatial modeling of risk in natural resource management, P G Jones, CIAT, Colombia and P K Thornton, ILRI, Kenya
• Landcare on the poverty-protection interface in an Asian watershed, D P Garrity, ICRAF, Kenya, V B Amoroso, Central Mindanao University, Philippines, S Koffa, D Catacutan, ICRAF, Philippines, G Buenavista, Rodano St, Philippines, P Fay, ICRAF, Indonesia and W Dar, ICRISAT, India
• Integrated natural resource management: approaches and lessons from the Himalaya, K G Saxena, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, K S Rao, K K Sen, R K Maikhuri and R L Semwal, GB Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, India
• Assessing the impact of integrated natural resource management: challenges and experiences, M V Gottret, Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands and D White, CIAT, Peru
• Assessing viability and sustainability: a systems-based approach for deriving comprehensive indicator sets, H Bossel, Sustainable Systems Research, Germany
• Assessing the performance of natural resource systems, B M Campbell, J A Sayer, P Frost, University of Zimbabwe, S Vermeulen, IIED, London, UK, M Ruiz Pιrez, Autonomous University of Madrid and CIFOR, Spain, A Cunningham Worldwide Fund for Nature, Australia and R Prabhu, CIFOR, Zimbabwe
• Integrating research on food and the environment:an exit strategy from the rational fool syndrome in agricultural science, J A Ashby, CIAT, Colombia
