For Environment, Democracy and Livelihoods
Equity and Social Justice in Natural Resource Management.
In the last two to three decades, there has been a rapid change in the perceptions of the role of natural resources in society all over the world. The natural resource issues have now been associated with wider socio-economic and environmental concerns, such as biodiversity loss, climate change, poverty and governance (Brown and Schreckenberg etal., 2002). Recently, equity and social justice have been the major issues to be addressed while managing the natural resources.
Community based natural resource management, or for that matter any other form of resource devolution policy, has generated high expectations that it would save the state money, improve resource quality, and provide benefits to those who really need them. Unfortunately, from a poor person’s perspective, who relies on natural resources for their own and families livelihoods, the outcomes have been rather discouraging….
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