Theme 2: Competing Claims on Natural Resources
Competing claims on natural resources call for new practical paradigms of capacity. Drawing on inter-disciplinary research, they must address a maze of technical, socio-economic and cultural issues and governance mechanisms at different scales.
A methodological framework will demonstrate implications for stakeholders, emphasizing:
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Multi-stakeholder platforms in negotiation and priority setting Innovation and responses to changing pressures on land Local options for sustainable resource use, with varying access rights and power Effects of policies at multiple scales.
The full text of this theme can be found here.
Projects within this theme are:
· Competing Claims, Competing Models; Understanding (the benefits of) bio-fuel-based development models and their impact on resource use negotiations and rural livelihoods in southern Africa, Mozambique
Contact: maja.slingerland@wur.nl
· Illegal or incompatible? Managing the consequences of timber legality standards on local livelihoods (Ghana and Indonesia)
Contact: nico.rozemeijer@wur.nl
· Coping with competing claims on Water in the Incomati Basin through Interactive Science (WIBIS) (South Africa, Mozambique)
Contact: petra.hellegers@wur.nl
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Improving livelihoods and resource management in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia
Contact: huib.hengsdijk@wur.nl
