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

by Jeffrey Sayer , Bruce Campbell

• ISBN13: 9780521827287
• ISBN10: 0521827280
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-22
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Science faces major challenges in tackling the inter-linked problems of poverty and environmental sustainability. This book reviews how practical science can be applied to real-life conservation and development problems, and aims to demystify the sometimes obscure science of natural resources management, interpreting it for the benefit of those who need to deal with the day to day problems of managing complex natural resource systems. The authors give practical guidance to those who design and manage conservation programmes and demonstrate that technologies are available that enable integrated natural resource management to move from a theory to a reality. They argue that the threats to the natural environment posed by globalisation require an integrated response encompassing different scales, system components, disciplines and knowledge types, and that such a response can yield real benefits to those living in tropical developing countries, whilst also achieving global environment objectives.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I. Rising to the Challenge of Complexity: 1. The challenge: alleviating poverty and conserving the environment

2. Dealing with complexity

3. Getting into the system - multiple realities, social learning and adaptive management

4. issues of scale

5. Confronting complexity - models, knowledge and negotiation

Part II. Realities on the Ground: 6. Institutions for managing natural resources in African savannahs

7. Forest margins in Indonesian Borneo

8. Learning by doing on tropical American hillsides

Part III. Achieving Successful Researched-Based Management: 9. The spread of innovations

10. Measuring success

11. Achieving research-based management

Index.