History, cculture aand cconservation

and other actors overcome environmental chal-

lenges, take best advantage of nature’s gifts

and share those in fairness and solidarity. When

it fails, it ushers conflicts, human misery and

environmental damages.

This book is designed to support professionals

and citizens at large who both wish to better

understand collaborative management process-

es and develop and enhance them in practice.

It begins by offering a variety of vistas, from

broad historical and equity considerations to in-

depth co-management examples. The understanding accumulated in recent decades on

starting points for co-management, pre-requisites for successful negotiations (such as

effective social communication and internal organisation of the parties) as well as rules,

methods and conditions of the negotiations themselves are illustrated in detail. Methods

and tools, such as practical checklists distilled from different situations and contexts, are

offered throughout. Examples of specific agreements and pluralist management organisa-

tions are discussed. The experience of social actors learning by doing and improving their

management practices on an on-going basis is what informed this book— together with

the complex and inspiring ways by which the surrounding socio-political conditions can

be improved through participatory democracy.

Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend

([email protected]) is Chair of CEESP CMWG and

CO-chair of TILCEPA. Michel Pimbert

([email protected]) is a member of

CEESP/CMWG and TILCEPA. M. Taghi Farvar

([email protected]) is Chair of CEESP and

member of CMWG and TILCEPA. Ashish

Kothari([email protected]) is Co-chair of

TILCEPA and a member of CEESP/CMWG. Yves

Renard([email protected]) is past Co-chair of

CMWG and currently a member.

Rights, RResources aand RRural DDevelopment—

community-bbased nnatural rresource mmanagement

in SSouthern AAfrica

Edited bby CChristo FFabricius, EEddie KKoch,

Hector MMagome aand SStephen TTurner,

Earthscan, LLondon, 22004.

CCommunity-based natural resource man-

agement (CBNRM) is an approach that

offers multiple related benefits: securing

rural livelihoods while ensuring careful con-

servation and management of biodiversity

and other resources. Recently, however, the

CBNRM concept has attracted criticism for

failing to realise its promises or deliver sig-