Democratic Decentralisation Through a Natural Resource Lens : Cases from Africa, Asia and Latin America

Jesse C. Ribot is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois. He currently directs the Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy (SDEP) Initiative of the Department of Geography, School of Earth Society and Environment, and Beckman Institute. While conducting the research in this volume, he was a Senior Associate in the Institutions and Governance Program of the World Resources Institute (WRI). Ribot has conducted research on environmental justice, social vulnerability in the face of climate change, the social structure of resource access, and the effects of rural-urban resource markets on local livelihoods. Ribot has also worked on local environmental governance issues with the World Bank, the United Nations Capital Development Fund, the Dutch Government, and USAID.

Anne M Larson is a Senior Associate with the Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia, based in Nicaragua. Her research has focused on decentralization and local governance, community forestry, forest tenure, indigenous rights and conservation and development. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.S. from Stanford University.