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Title Governance for justice and environmental sustainability : lessons across natural resource sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Merle Sowman and Rachel Wynberg
Published Abingdon : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (360 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Governance, equity and sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa: An introduction to the discourse; 2 Theoretical deliberations on understanding natural resource governance; 3 Localizing global environmental governance norms: Implications for justice; 4 Governing ancestral land in Madagascar: Have policy reforms contributed to social justice?; 5 Exclusionary spaces: Power, poverty and community-based natural resource management in West Africa
6 Wildlife paying its way? A critical analysis of community-based natural resource management in the Chobe Enclave, Botswana7 Community-based conservation and protected areas: Commons perspectives for promoting biodiversity and social justice in southern Africa; 8 Community-based natural resource management: Micro-governance and face-to-face participatory democracy; 9 Fisheries co-management in the Okavango Delta's panhandle: The Okavango Fisheries Management Committee case study; 10 Shifting gear: A new governance framework for small-scale fisheries in South Africa
11 Legal pluralism and the governance of freshwater resources in southern Africa: Can customary governance be embedded within the statutory frameworks for integrated water resources management?12 Customary governance of baobab in eastern Zimbabwe: Impacts of state-led interventions; 13 Partnerships are not forever: The limits of collaborative governance in diamond mining in Namaqualand; 14 Governance, equity and sustainability in non-timber forest product value chains; 15 Governing the ungovernable? Climate change and social justice in southern Africa
Summary The intention of this book is to begin to shed light on these issues, by exploring the interplay between governance, justice and sustainability in a range of natural resource sectors. The book comprises 16 chapters, 12 of them case studies recounting experiences in the forest, wildlife, fisheries, conservation, mining and water sectors of diverse countries: Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Cameroon
Analysis Africa
Environmental justice
Government policy
Management
Natural resources
Social justice
Sub-Saharan
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
Notes English
Subject Social sciences (General)
Natural resources -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Management
Sustainability -- Government policy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Sustainable development -- Government policy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Social justice -- Government policy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Environmental justice -- Government policy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Humanities.
Society & social sciences.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Natural resources -- Management
Social justice -- Government policy
Sustainable development -- Government policy
Sub-Saharan Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Sowman, Merle, editor
Wynberg, Rachel, editor
ISBN 9780203120880
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