Cultural Diversity and Community-Based Resource Management. Assessing the awareness of cultural diversity and dynamics in joint forest management, Rajasthan, India. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Since the 1980s, the Asian region has seen a groundswell of support for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), as an answer to claimed overall diversity loss, critiques on ‘fortress conservation’, and advocacy for indigenous rights. CBNRM evolved rapidly from an alternative view toward a widely endorsed concept. Yet, at the same moment as CBNRM gained momentum, it turned into a highly critiqued panacea itself. Empirical research ...