 | Participatory Methods in Community-based Coastal Resource Management - Volume 1 - Introductory Papers (IIRR, 1998) |
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| | Funding partners |
| | Collaborating organizations |
| | Members of the management team and steering committee |
| | Acknowledgement |
|  | Introduction |
| | (introduction...) |
| | The first booklet |
| | The second booklet |
| | The third booklet |
| | A distillation of practical field experiences |
| | How this sourcebook was produced |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Workshop objectives |
| | Workshop process |
| | Coastal communities living with complexity and crisis in search for control |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Coastal communities |
| | Complexity |
| | Crisis |
| | Who owns this sea? |
| | Coastal resource management |
| | Community-based coastal resource management |
| | Community-based coastal resource management |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Principles of CBCRM |
| | Components of CBCRM |
| | The CBCRM cycle |
| | References |
| | Community organizing and development process |
| | Definition |
| | Purpose |
| | The community organizer |
| | Time frame |
| | Commonly-used approach |
| | Participation and participatory methods |
| | What is participation? |
| | Why participation? |
| | Degrees of participation |
| | Obstacles to participation |
| | Participatory methods and other research methods |
| | References |
| | General guidelines for using participatory tools |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Guidelines for facilitating groups |
| | While working with a community... |
| | Glossary |
| | Workshop participants |
| | Workshop staff |
Crisis
Ecosystems and coastal communities are in crisis due to overexploitation and overpopulation. Much of this crisis is due to lack of control of resources, however, local people can take control.
The devastation of coastal resources has been increasing in recent years. Degradation of coral reefs, mangrove forests and estuaries is caused by: poverty driven over-exploitation, destructive fishing methods, pollution, erosion and other impacts of land-based "development".
Few coral reefs near populated areas are healthy. They have lost biological and structural diversity and the abundance of life they should support. Many mangrove forests are gone. Many estuaries have become sewers. It might be argued that the main crisis is that of control.
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