What is it about?
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) focuses on local-level sustainable management of natural resources. The increasing use of internet, email, and social media means that it becomes important to address how sharing of information about CBNRM can best be done in order to achieve optimal results.
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Why is it important?
With increased use of communication via information and communication technologies (ICTs) there is a real danger of focusing on hard data and information, and give less emphasis to the soft data about people and relationships between people. The latter is hard data and information understood in a context, that is, knowledge. The global network of people that work on CBNRM strives to maintain this focus on knowledge in their interactions via ICTs.
Perspectives
Local management of natural resources do not take place in a vacuum. There are several external stakeholders whose actions impact local natural resource management. These stakeholders are partly found at the local regional level, in the private and public sectors. They also operate at the national level, within political and public administration arenas. The latter stakeholders often impact and even control activities at the local level, instead of making legal reforms that would support and enable local-level sustainable natural resource management. Increased sharing of information and knowledge about CBNRM is necessary to support local-level activities.
Mr Lars T Soeftestad
Supras Ltd.
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: CBNRM Net: From Managing Natural Resources to Managing Ecosystems, Knowledge, and People, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-3798-6_24.
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Resources
A Social Science Response to Land Degradation
Interview with Lars Soeftestad, CEO, Supras Ltd. He participated in UNCCD COP 11 (Windhoek, Namibia, 16-27 September 2013), on the invitation of Responding to Climate Change (rtcc.org) and Entico Corporation (entico.com). Specifically, he participated in the meetings of UNCCD's Sustainable Land Management Business Forum (SLMBF), where he addressed the role of the private sector in engaging with the civil society at the local level, in developing and in transition countries. He presented a technical paper that addresses these issues critically. The interview, taped during the conference, addresses land degradation from the vantage point of the social sciences. The interviewer is Ed King, Editor, RTCC.
Devblog
Lars Soeftestad's blog, Devblog, carries articles that discuss community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) and related concerns.
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