The paper offers a critical discussion of resource use in a national park, Baluran, in
Indonesia. In general, an increasing accept of the need for livelihood security, also for …

For co-management of conservation areas to be effective, detailed information on local
people's use of natural resources is essential. This chapter offers one method to obtain …

State-based management approaches to nature conservation have often failed to balance
the goal of conservation and the goal to improve the livelihoods of local communities …

The management of tropical protected areas is a contentious issue in resource management
and often leads to an unproductive polarization of viewpoints supporting either …

Biodiversity conservation has emerged within the past two decades as one of the most
important global challenges confronting national planners, world bodies, professionals and …

This article addresses the challenge of combining ecosystem protection with economic
development. The setting is societies living near a national park in a poor and peripheral …

Abstract Theorists of Common Pool Resources (CPR) management suggest that distribution
and devolution of power can localize consequential decisions over natural resources. The …

This paper examines the indigenous land and forest management systems of the community
of seven Iban longhouses whose territories comprise the area of Batang Ai National Park in …

In the wake of failures to maintain protected areas based on strict exclusion–the “fortress”
approach deriving from the Yellowstone model–considerable efforts have been made to …

This study analyzes the role of Gunung Halimun National Park in the livelihoods of three
communities living in and around or near the park, and the impact of the national park on the …