Books
Can Learning Based Approaches Take Root in Natural Resource Management?
Can Learning Based Approaches Take Root in Natural Resource Management? Reflections from the world of practice
The book advances the frontiers of adaptive learning and collaborative governance on two key fronts. It offers in-depth explanation of why adaptive collaborative approaches are slow to emerge and expand, and how different types of constraints and challenges affect the process. The book has highlighted that, the major challenges experienced are related t...
Knowledge Systems and Natural Resources: Management, Policy, and Institutions in Nepal
This book analyses how diverse knowledge systems operate in the field of natural resource management in Nepal. In order to examine the status of knowledge systems interface and identify the challenges of participatory and deliberative governance of natural resources, the book presents six case studies on forest, agriculture and water governance at different levels – from local community (such as a farmer managed irrigation system) to national research system (such as national agricul...
Communities, Forests and Good Governance: Policy and Institutional Innovations from Nepal
Over the past few decades, Community-based Forest Management (CBFM) has evolved as a key strategy of conservation as well as promoting local livelihoods, especially in the developing countries. Nepal has been designing various policies and programmes to support somewhat different but complementary strategies of CBFM over the past three decades. This book draws from these experiences to document lessons from different CBFM initiatives that have taken plac...
Reframing Governance Understanding Deliberative Politics in Nepal's Terai Forestry
The book develops a fresh approach to understanding governance using key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu (symbolic violence, doxa, field and habitus) and Jurgen Habermas (deliberative politics). Taking a case study of forest governance in Nepal Terai, the book analyses Habermas's ideal of deliberative governance from the perspective of Bourdieu's theory of practice. The case study shows that despite growing rhetoric of participatory and decentralized governance of ...
Forests of Learning
In recent years, awareness has grown in Nepal and globally regarding two of community forestry’s most critical challenges: equity and livelihoods. Yet even as understanding of these challenges has improved, actors from the local to the national levels in Nepal continue to be confronted with the dilemma of how to address these challenges in such a diverse, complex and dynamic context. This synthesis explores an adaptive collaborative approach to governance...