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

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 3
The Science of Sustainable Development: Local Livelihoods and the Global Environment......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 8
Boxes......Page 10
Tables......Page 12
Foreword......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgements......Page 19
Part I - Integrating natural resource management......Page 23
1 The challenge: alleviating poverty and conserving the environment......Page 25
The challenges facing research......Page 29
Dysfunctional development assistance projects......Page 33
Towards a new role for science......Page 39
How integrated do we need to be?......Page 43
Conclusion......Page 47
The keys to integrated natural resource management......Page 49
2 Dealing with complexity......Page 51
The new vision of integrated research......Page 55
Adaptation, not sustainability, as the focus?......Page 60
Becoming part of an action cycle......Page 64
Moving across scales......Page 66
Knowledge management......Page 68
Measuring impact in complex systems......Page 69
Moving to new forms of organising and conducting science......Page 70
Not getting lost in the system......Page 71
Integrating across disciplines......Page 72
The keys to complexity......Page 75
3 Getting into the system: multiple realities, social learning and adaptive management......Page 77
A clash of two paradigms......Page 81
The actor-oriented approach......Page 84
The approach – learning together for change......Page 87
Getting into the system......Page 94
Staying in the system: facilitation of participatory learning and action......Page 97
Keys to getting into and staying in the system......Page 100
4 Issues of scale......Page 101
Temporal scale......Page 102
Biophysical–spatial scale......Page 103
Organisational scale......Page 105
Combining multi-scale models and databases......Page 107
Scale relationships......Page 111
Integrated conservation and development projects......Page 114
Lateral flows and filters......Page 116
5 Models, knowledge and negotiation......Page 120
Model uses and stakeholder participation......Page 121
Modelling to help villagers to improve their adaptive capacity......Page 124
Knowledge management and negotiation support......Page 128
Charting a way forward......Page 134
Step 1 Problem formulation, initial generation of alternatives and establishment of a knowledge management system......Page 135
Step 3 Developing a computer-based model......Page 136
Step 4 Moving to fully blown predictive models and/or decision-support systems......Page 137
The keys to the use of models for natural resource management......Page 138
Part II - Realities on the ground......Page 139
Component science in complex savanna environments......Page 141
Developing productive water points......Page 143
So where are the problems?......Page 145
Living in a complex world: the Kefasi family in Romwe......Page 146
Modelling: fuzzy holistic approaches or rigorous pragmatism......Page 149
Integrating across disciplines......Page 152
Conclusion and the key lessons from Chivi......Page 164
7 Forest margins in Indonesian Borneo......Page 166
The changing face of the forest landscape......Page 169
A holistic study of the changing landscape......Page 173
Tacit and explicit knowledge......Page 178
Teamwork to exploit opportunities......Page 180
The role of research: understanding development trajectories......Page 186
Conclusions and key lessons......Page 190
Forests, watersheds and poor farmers......Page 192
Seeking technological solutions: moving to farmers as owners of the research......Page 197
Organisational and resource management problems in the Rio Cabuyal......Page 201
Lessons learned......Page 205
The keys to the success of the Andean hillside initiatives......Page 208
Part III - The research–management continuum......Page 211
9 The spread of innovations......Page 213
Uptake and community empowerment......Page 215
Farm-family empowerment in Bangladesh......Page 216
Landcare in Australia......Page 217
Principles for achieving dissemination and uptake......Page 218
Information management tools for achieving uptake......Page 220
Site similarity analysis......Page 221
Interfacing simulation models with GIS......Page 223
Land type and farmer categories......Page 224
Bridging local to national and global scales: the experience of community watershed management......Page 225
The keys to widespread uptake......Page 231
10 Measuring the performance of natural resource systems......Page 233
Conceptualising the system: dealing with connectivity......Page 236
Selecting indicators......Page 237
Incorporating simulation modelling......Page 243
Participatory approaches to assessment......Page 245
Integration of indicators......Page 246
Keys to successful evaluation......Page 247
11 Achieving research-based management......Page 248
The democratisation of science......Page 254
The locus of control: local livelihoods versus public goods......Page 256
Delivering science-based natural resource management: reinventing the development project......Page 262
Towards a revolution in natural resource science?......Page 265
The keys to science-based conservation and development......Page 268
Bibliography......Page 270
Index......Page 285