Community-based Approaches to Resource and Environmental Management

摘要

Community-based approaches are advocated widely internationally and domestically, based on the idea that information, understanding and capacity for action and change, as well as for monitoring and enforcement, do not reside only within government agencies or the private sector. Certainly, these competencies and others often do exist within communities, outside of identified scientific, planning and management organizations. Recent commentators have noted, however, that much of what has been written takes it as self-evident that locally-based participatory approaches result in fairer and more equitable decisions, more potential for generation of context-appropriate innovations, more effective implementation of plans and implementation strategies and a generally more sustainable world.