The Science of Sustainable Development: Local Livelihoods and the Global Environment

by Jeffrey Sayer, Bruce Campbell

Overview

Science faces major challenges in tackling the interlinked problems of poverty and environmental sustainability. This book calls for a restructuring of our present arrangements to achieve integrated natural resource management—integration across scales, system components, disciplines and knowledge types. It advocates the necessity of modelling, multi-scale analysis and action research, institutional and organizational development, and communication enhancement. The book draws on case studies throughout the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521827287
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/18/2003
Series:	Biological Conservation, Restoration & Sustainability S
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Jeffrey Sayer is Senior Associate, Forests for Life Programme, WWF-International, Switzerland.

Bruce Campbell is Director, Forests and Livelihoods Programme, Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia.

Table of Contents

List of figures; List of boxes; List of tables; Foreword Claude Martin; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Integrating Natural Resource Management: 1. The challenge: alleviating poverty and conserving the environment; 2. Dealing with complexity; 3. Getting into the system: multiple realities, social learning and adaptive management; 4. issues of scale; 5. Models, knowledge and negotiation; Part II. Realities on the Ground: 6. Institutions for managing natural resources in African savannahs; 7. Forest margins in Indonesian Borneo; 8. Learning by doing on tropical American hillsides; Part III. The Research-Management Continuum: 9. The spread of innovations; 10. Measuring the performance of natural resource systems; 11. Achieving research-based management; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a fine book and extremely important...please read The Science of Sustainable Development, if you haven't already." Écoscience

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