Democratic Decentralisation Through a Natural Resource Lens

ISBN 10: 0415568269 / ISBN 13: 9780415568265

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 2009

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pp. 268 1st Edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Democratic Decentralisation Through a Natural Resource Lens
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415568269
• ISBN 13: 9780415568265
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book queries the state and effect of the global decentralization movement through the study of natural resource decentralizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This book was published as a special issue of the European Journal of Development Research.

About the Author

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.