Journal article
Delocalizing Communities: Changing Forms of Community Engagement in Natural Resources Governance
HR Ojha, R Ford, RJ Keenan, D Race, D Carias Vega, H Baral, P Sapkota
World Development | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2016
Abstract
Across both the developing and developed worlds, community engagement has become a key strategy for natural resource management. However, a growing number of studies report that community-based approaches are experiencing formidable challenges, with limited outcomes in terms of livelihoods, decentralization and sustainability. Yet, policies continue to focus attention unduly on “community participation”, ignoring the ways in which the “community” is itself embedded in a wider social system. Recent studies have shown that local communities are more complex than previously assumed, with local community actions being heavily shaped by wider social and environmental contexts. Yet, scholarly rese..
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Awarded by Australian Center for International Agricultural Research
Funding Acknowledgements
This paper draws on various research projects in which the co-authors were engaged in a variety of ways. Key institutions and projects we would like to acknowledge are: Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (including the project FST/2011/076), British Academy (International Partnership and Mobility Awards), Dannida Fellowship Center, and Forest Action Nepal. We thank three anonymous reviewers for very helpful comments in improving the paper. We also acknowledge helpful comments from Krishna K. Shrestha, Basundhara Bhattarai, Andrea Nightingale, Robert Fisher, Don Gilmour, Ian Nuberg, and Dil Bahadur Khatri. Final revision accepted: June 18, 2016.