Governance and Institutions

Weblinks

• CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights
  website: http://www.capri.cgiar.org/

• The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. This site contains an author-submission portal; an archive of full-text articles, papers, and dissertations; the Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.
  website http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/

• FAO provides useful information routinely via
  website: www.Infosylva-l@mailserv.fao.org

• The International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP)
  website: http://www.iascp.org/

• IIED (2007) Forest Governance learning Group - Update. September 2007. IIED, London, UK.
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• International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, UK.
  website: http://www.iied.org/ 

• This IUCN website, includes many articles of relevance for Governance and Institutions. See especially Volumes 13 and 14.

• The Learning for Sustainability website: http://learningforsustainability.net

  Has been substantially revised and updated over the past few months as a guide to on-line resources for government agency staff, NGOs and other community leaders working to support social learning and collective action as an underlying mechanism to address sustainability issues. A central section of this site links the reader to a range of guides, tools and checklists that can be drawn upon for guidance in this area to address issues such as participation and engagement. Other pages here highlight the lessons that have emerged from researchers and practitioners in different sectors. These include lessons from the HIV/AIDS sector, public health, and protected natural areas. They are shown on their different pages to highlight the fact that each sector is looking at similar human dimensions practice change lessons, and that the more we can learn across sectors the better. A new page in this section now covers tools, tips and techniques for facilitators and other social engagement specialists.

• FAO/RECOFTC. 2007. In Search of Excellence: Exemplary Forest Management in Asia and the Pacific. This book contains 28 cases studies, each of which provides some valuable lessons on forest management in this region.
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• Yasmi, Yurdi. 2007. Institutionalization of Conflict Capability in the Management of Natural Resources: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Experience in Indonesia. Doctoral Dissertation, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands. This dissertation draws on cases of conflict in forested areas in East and West Kalimantan and in Sumatra. It clarifies how conflicts escalate and suggests ways to manage conflicts better.
  Please also click here to read the Factsheet of Wageningen International.