Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods Doing Science Together

by Fortmann, Louise

• ISBN13: 9781405176798
• ISBN10: 1405176792
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: Doing Science Together starts from the understanding that all people create knowledge and that the creation of sustainable livelihoods and of conditions that protect and sustain rural ecosystems are interrelated.Here local experts and professional researchers write independently about the participatory research processes through which they created new knowledge together. They demonstrate that interdependent science can produce more accurate and locally appropriate data, while frankly addressing persisting issues such as unequal power, whose knowledge and what ways of knowing count, whose voice can be heard or appear in print, and other dilemmas of this practice. Conservation scientists and practitioners will both benefit from reading this book.First book to examine community participatory research techniques that focuses on conservation aims Unique book in that it is written from the perspective of participating community volunteers and researching scientists Part of the prestigious Conservation Science and Practice series published in association with the Zoological Society of London"Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods is brilliant, passionate, and inspiring..." Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota, co-author of Playing with Fire

Author Biography

Louise Fortmann is a Professor of Natural Resource Sociology and holds the Rudy Grah Chair in Forestry and Sustainable Development in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California at Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. x
Foreword	p. xvi
Acknowledgements	p. xxiii
Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xxvi
Non-English Words	p. xxviii
Introduction: Doing Science Together by Louise Fortmann	p. 1
How Participatory Research Convinced a Sceptic	p. 18
Sharing in Innovation: Reflections on a Partnership to Improve Livelihoods and Resource Conservation in the Honduran Hillsides	p. 36
Campesinos Cientificios: Farmer Philosophies on Participatory Research	p. 55
Retracing the Trail to Wisdom: Doing Science Together in Cibecue	p. 70
The Land has Wisdom	p. 84
What Makes a Scientist? Studying the Impacts of Harvest in the Pacific Northwest	p. 98
'She Fell Out of the Sky': Salal Harvesters' Reflections on Participatory Research	p. 115
'Research Sounds so Big...': Collaborative Inquiry with Women in Drevdagen, Sweden	p. 130
For oss ar naturen en lisa for sjalen (Where Peace Comes Dropping Slow): the Forests and Nature for Us	p. 146
From Participation to Partnership: Devolution, Forest Communities and CIFOR in Malinau, Indonesia	p. 162
Malinau Villagers' Relationship with CIFOR: High Hopes, Unmet Expectations and Trusted Confidante	p. 178
Rediscovering Participation: Reflections on the Mhondoro Tree Project	p. 195
Unofanira Kuzvininipisa (You have to be Humble)	p. 209
New Seeds, New Selves, New Societies: Rural Women's Reflections on Participatory Research in Plant Breeding	p. 224
Conclusions	p. 245
Publications from the Participatory Research Projects	p. 266
Index	p. 275
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