Resources ffrom CCEESP mmembers

Sharing PPower— LLearning bby ddoing iin cco-mmanage-

ment oof nnatural rresources tthroughout tthe wworld

By GGrazia BBorrini-FFeyerabend, MMichel PPimbert,

M. TTaghi FFarvar, AAshish KKothari aand YYves RRenard,

IIED aand IIUCN/CEESP/CMWG, CCenesta, TTeheran, 22004.

453 ppp.

AAt the heart of ‘co-management’

of natural resources is a process of collective understanding and action by local commu-

nities and other social actors. The process brings about negotiated agreements on man-

agement roles, rights, and responsibilities, making explicit the conditions and institutions

of sound decentralised governance. De facto, co-management is about sharing power.

When successful, it spells out the peaceful and intelligent ways by which communities

“Sharing Power” should be required

reading for all of us involved in the

governance and management of

natural resources.... The lamp-posts

are intelligence, care and equity—the

exact opposite of situations in which

the stronger forces impose their will

on the weaker ones, without regard to

understandings, results or even

meaning, let alone sustainability....

This book invites us to, and equips

us for, a dialogue among different

cultures, being those of neighbours or

of distant actors, in a respectful and

equitable search for new forms of

natural resource management.... You

will find yourself consulting this

book over and over again when you

need inspiration and practical help...

from the foreword by Juan Mayr

Maldonado