Title:
Defining political community and rights to natural resources in Botswana
Authors:
Poteete, Amy R.
Place:
Oxford [etc.]
Publisher:
Blackwell
Year:
2009
Journal:
Development and change
Volume:
40(2009)2
PAGE:
281--305
Subject:
Rural Decentralization and Local Governance
Keywords:
political power, community participation, natural resources policy, decentralization in government, botswana
Abstract:
In Botswana, the entangling of natural resource policy with identity politics contributed to a partial recentralization of CBNRM. Decentralization has been associated with democratization in that decentralized natural resource management is virtually equated with empowerment of local resource users.
URL:
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/centers-programs/centers/mrcbg/programs/ssp/docs/events/conferences/2011/aaas/background_materials/Poteete_Dev_Change_2009.pdf
Document type:
Portal