Democratic decentralisation through a natural resource lens / edited by Jesse C. Ribot and Anne M. Larson.

Published "in association with EADI, European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, Bonn."

"First published in 2005. Transferred to Digital Printing 2009."--T.p. verso of paperback edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Democratic decentralisation through a natural resource lens: an introduction / Anne M. Larson and Jesse C. Ribot -- Between micro-politics and administrative imperatives: decentralisation and the watershed mission in Madhya Pradesh, India / Amita Baviskar -- Decentralisation when land and resource rights are deeply contested: a case study of the Mkambati eco-tourism project on the Wild coast of South Africa / Ben Cousins and Thembela Kepe -- Formal decentralisation and the imperative of decentralisation 'from below': a case study of natural resource management in Nicaragua / Anne Larson -- Democratic decentralisation and traditional authority: dilemmas of land administration in rural South Africa / Lungisile Ntsebeza -- What lies behind decentralisation? forest, powers and actors in lowland Bolivia / Pablo Pacheco -- Closer to people and trees: will decentralisation work for the people and the forests of Indonesia? / Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo -- Decentralisation, rural livelihoods and pasture-land management in post-socialist Mongolia / Robin Mearns -- Decentralisation and accountability in forest management: a case from Yunnan, Southwest China / Jianchu Xu and Jesse C. Ribot -- The social and organisational roots of ecological uncertainties in Cameroon's forest management decentralisation model / Phil Reno Oyono -- User committees: a potentially damaging second wave of decentralisation? / James Manor -- Decentralising water resource management in Brazil / Christian Brannstrom -- Decentralising natural resource management: a recipe for sustainability and equity? / Wicky Meynen and Martin Doornbos.