Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: Doing Science Together

by Editor: Louise Fortmann (University of California, Berkeley)

• ISBN13: 9781444305326
• ISBN10: 1444305328
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-03-01
• 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

Table of Contents

Contributors

Foreword: Marshall W. Murphree

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and abbreviations

Non-English words

Introduction: doing science together

How participatory research convinced a sceptic

Sharing in innovation: reflections on a partnership to improve livelihoods and resource conservation in the Honduran hillsides

Campesinos cientificios: farmer philosophies on participatory research: members of the Association of CIALs of Honduras

Retracing the trail to wisdom: doing science together in CibecueL

The land has wisdom

What makes a scientist? studying the impacts of harvest in the Pacific Northwest

'She fell out of the sky': salal harvesters' reflections on participatory research

'Research sounds so big à': collaborative inquiry with women in Drevdagen, Sweden

För oss är naturen en lisa för själen

From participation to partnership: devolution, forest communities and CIFOR in Malinau, Indonesia

Malinau villagers' relationship with CIFOR: high hopes, unmet expectations and trusted confidante

Rediscovering participation: reflections on the Mhondoro Tree Project

Unofanira Kuzvininipisa

New seeds, new selves, new societies: rural women's reflections on participatory research in plant breeding

Conclusions

Appendix A Publications from the participatory research projects

Index

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