Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Herausgeber: Young, Helen; Goldman, Lisa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines experiences from around the world in supporting post-conflict livelihoods and facilitating peacebuilding through natural resource management. This book presents case studies and analyses that identify lessons and opportunities for designing interventions in land management, agriculture, forestry, and other natural resource-based areas.

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"Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources that are essential to livelihoods and by significantly hindering access to those resources, conflict can wreak havoc on the ability of war-torn populations to survive and recover. This book explores how natural resource management initiatives in more than twenty countries and territories have supported livelihoods and facilitated post-conflict peacebuilding. Case studies and analyses identify lessons and opportunities for the more effective design of interventions to support the livelihoods that depend on natural resources -- from land to agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and protected areas. The book also explores larger questions about how to structure livelihoods assistance as part of a coherent, integrated approach to post-conflict redevelopment. Livelihoods and Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books in this series address high value resources, land, water, assessing and restoring natural resources, and governance"--

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Produktdetails

• Post-conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 790g
• ISBN-13: 9781849712330
• ISBN-10: 1849712336
• Artikelnr.: 30970367

Autorenporträt

Helen Young is a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and a research director at the school's Feinstein International Center. Lisa Goldman is a senior attorney at the Environmental Law Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction: Helping Post-conflict Communities Survive and Thrive
Part 1: Natural Resource Conflicts, Livelihoods, and Peacebuilding
Approaches Introduction 1. Social Identity, Natural Resources, and
Peacebuilding 2. Swords into Ploughshares? Access to Natural Resources and
Securing Agricultural Livelihoods in Rural Afghanistan 3.Forest Resources
in Cambodia's Transition to Peace: Lessons for Peacebuilding 4.
Post-tsunami Aceh: Successful Peacemaking, Uncertain Peacebuilding 5.
Manufacturing Peace in "No Man's Land": Livestock and Access to Resources
in the Karimojong Cluster of Kenya and Uganda 6. Resolving Natural Resource
Conflicts to Help Prevent War: A Case from Afghanistan Part 2: Innovative
Livelihoods Approaches in Post-conflict Settings Introduction 7. The
Opportunities and Challenges of Protected Areas for Post-conflict
Peacebuilding 8. A Peace Park in the Balkans:Cross-border Cooperation and
Livelihood Creation through Coordinated Environmental Conservation 9.
Mountain Gorilla Ecotourism: Supporting Macroeconomic Growth and Providing
Local Livelihoods 10. The Interface between Natural Resources and
Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration: Enhancing Human Security in
Post-conflict Settings 11. Demobilized Combatants as Park Rangers:
Post-conflict Natural Resource Management in Gorongosa National Park 12.
Utilizing Alternative Livelihood Schemes to Solve Conflict Problems in
Sierra Leone's Artisanal Diamond Mining Industry 13. Linking to Peace:
Using BioTrade for Biodiversity Conservation and Peacebuilding in Colombia
Part 3: The Institutional and Policy Context Introduction 14. Fisheries
Policies and the Problem of Instituting Sustainable Management: The Case of
Occupied Japan 15. Developing Capacity for Natural Resource Management in
Afghanistan: Process, Challenges and Lessons Learned by UNEP 16. Building
Resilience in Rural Livelihood Systems as an Investment in Conflict
Prevention 17. Improving Natural Resource Governance and Building Peace and
Stability in Mindanao, Philippines 18. Commerce in the Chaos: Charcoal,
Bananas, Fisheries, and Conflict in Somalia Part 4: Lessons Learned 19.
Managing Natural Resources for Livelihoods in Post-conflict Societies:
Lessons Learned