Dialogue of theory and empirical evidence : a weighted decision and tenurial niche approach to reviewing the operation of natural resource policy in rural Southern Africa

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dc.contributor.authorMandondo, Alois
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Zimbabwe, Centre for Applied Social Sciences
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of the Western Cape, Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies
dc.date.accessioned2010-03-11T19:52:45Z
dc.date.available2010-03-11T19:52:45Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.descriptionCopublished with Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabween
dc.descriptionCASS/PLAAS occasion paper seriesen
dc.description.abstractConsiderable research has been conducted on community-based natural resource management in rural southern Africa. Many interesting insights have accumulated from the literature on the research issues of earlier generations. The challenge is to break new ground by unravelling insights relevant to later generations. This study identifies the issue of scale in complex natural resource management systems as one of the more important among emerging issues in the sector. The study develops a theoretical framework implying trade-offs between deciding for others, deciding with others and deciding for oneself in the operation of natural resource policy. This weighted decision framework is used to critically interrogate the human ecology of land and resource use across a variety of tenurial niches in rural southern Africa. The study argues that in arriving at decisions regarding the operation of natural resource policy, the emphasis needs to shift from what should be done, to how it should be done. The study suggests that the ‘how it should be done’ of policy operation is a calibration problem. The calibration problem concerns itself with reconciling diverse preferences through the medium of decisions made for others, with others and for oneself. It is concluded that negotiation provides the most appropriate basis for calibration since it reconciles the contradictions within and among decisions made for others, with others and for oneself.en
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dc.format.extent1 digital file (26 p.)en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10625/42173
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherProgramme for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, ZAen
dc.relation.ispartofCommons Southern Africa occasional paper series; 10en
dc.subjectDECENTRALISED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENTen
dc.subjectLAND TENUREen
dc.subjectLAND USEen
dc.subjectDECENTRALIZATIONen
dc.subjectLAND MANAGEMENTen
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY PARTICIPATIONen
dc.subjectSOUTHERN AFRICAen
dc.titleDialogue of theory and empirical evidence : a weighted decision and tenurial niche approach to reviewing the operation of natural resource policy in rural Southern Africaen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
idrc.dspace.accessIDRC Onlyen
idrc.project.number101807
idrc.project.titleNew Approaches to People-centred Natural Resource Management for Development - Phase IIen
idrc.rims.adhocgroupIDRC SUPPORTEDen

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