Conceptualising Co-Management

The Foundations of Collaborative Natural Resource Governance
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-009-74600-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance

Co-management has been adopted internationally, across all types of natural resource settings, bringing resource users and others into governance with government. Multiple aspects of co-management have been studied, from power-sharing to social networks and accountability, identifying a wide range of concepts that form the foundations of co-management. By bringing together and interrogating a wide range of concepts, from all natural resource sectors, including forests, fisheries and grazing land, this book identifies how each concept contributes to the understanding and practice of co-management. Concepts such as collaboration, participation, institutions, power, community, cohesion, representation, accountability, trust, legitimacy, scale, rights, justice, values, identity and adaptation are reviewed. Each chapter reviews foundational literature and identifies key implications for co-management. These are brought together in a concluding chapter that identifies recurring themes from across the chapters and develops a social relational definition and conceptual framework for the understanding and practice of co-management.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nunan, Fiona

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The concept and foundations of co-management; 2. Collaboration and participation; 3. Institutions; 4. Power; 5. Community, cohesion and representation; 6. 'Good governance': accountability, legitimacy and trust; 7. Government; 8. Co-management at scale; 9. Rights and justice; 10. Our social selves: values, behaviour, identity and agency; 11. Towards adaptive co-management; 12. Conclusion; References; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Nunan, Fiona
Fiona Nunan is Professor of Environment and Development at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham. She has worked on and researched fisheries co-management since the early 2000s, with a focus on East and Southern Africa. Research into other natural resource contexts, including mangrove forests, have informed her edited publications, such as Governing Renewable Natural Resources (2019) and Researching Institutions in Natural Resource Governance (2024).