Author: Lucy EmertonPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2831712203
Category : Biodiversity conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Markets and Incentives for Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
Author: Lucy EmertonPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2831712203
Category : Biodiversity conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy: results and resolutions
Author: Rights, resources and rewards: lessons learned on rehabilitating landscapes for livelihoods in the Benet landscape, Uganda
Author: The Wealth of the Commons
Author: David BollierPublisher: Levellers Press
ISBN: 1937146146
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize productive online communities, reclaim public spaces, improve environmental stewardship and re-imagine the very meaning of "progress" and governance. In short, how they've built their commons. In 73 timely essays by a remarkable international roster of activists, academics and project leaders, this book chronicles ongoing struggles against the private commoditization of shared resources - often known as market enclosures - while documenting the immense generative power of the commons. The Wealth of the Commons is about history, political change, public policy and cultural transformation on a global scale - but most of all, it's about individual commoners taking charge of their lives and their endangered resources. "This fine collection makes clear that the idea of the Commons is fully international, and increasingly fully worked-out. If you find yourself wondering what Occupy wants, or if some other world is possible, this pragmatic, down-to-earth, and unsentimental book will provide many of the answers." - Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and The Durable Future
The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals
Author: Ben WhitePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317976843
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. This involves looking at ways in which existing patterns of rural social differentiation – in terms of class, gender, ethnicity and generation – are being shaped by changes in land use and property relations, as well as by the re-organization of production and exchange as rural communities and resources are incorporated into global commodity chains. It goes further than the descriptive ‘what’ and ‘who’ questions, in order to understand the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of these patterns. It is empirically solid and theoretically sophisticated, making it a robust and boundary-changing work. Contributors come from various scholarly disciplines. Covering nearly all regions of the world, the collection will be of interest to researchers from various disciplines, policymakers and activists. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.
Moving closer to nature: lessons for landscapes and livelihoods from the Miyun landscape, China
Author: Extracting value from the forest: lessons for landscapes and livelihoods from the Acre landscape, Brazil
Author: Improving ecosystem functionality and livelihood: experiences in forest landscape restoration and management
Author: Unusual partnerships: lessons for landscapes and livelihoods from the Doe Mae Salong landscape, Thailand
Author: REDD, Forest Governance and Rural Livelihoods
Author: Oliver Springate-BaginskiPublisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6028693154
Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Experiences from incentive-based forest management are examined for their effects on the livelihoods of local communities. In the second section, country case studies provide a snapshot of REDD developments to date and identify design features for REDD that would support benefits for forest communities.