Participatory Methods in Community-based Coastal Resource Management - Volume 1 - Introductory Papers (IIRR, 1998): Coastal communities living with complexity and crisis in search for control: Coastal resource management

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

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The first booklet

The second booklet

The third booklet

A distillation of practical field experiences

How this sourcebook was produced

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Workshop objectives

Workshop process

Coastal communities living with complexity and crisis in search for control

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Coastal communities

Complexity

Crisis

Who owns this sea?

Coastal resource management

Community-based coastal resource management

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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

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Guidelines for facilitating groups

While working with a community...

Glossary

Workshop participants

Workshop staff

Coastal resource management

Who is involved?

The sea goes from the beach in one village past the next village, around the country, and connects to the rest of the world. "Everyone" should be involved in managing the resources of the Sea or coastal resource management.

International agreements regulate some activities in the open sea. National agencies are often involved in Coastal Zone Management (CZM).

In recent years, a number of integrated approaches to CZM have been adopted. These include consideration of jointly managing all the activities of commerce, housing, fisheries, recreation, government, etc. which take place in the coastal zone. This process includes all the "stakeholders" in CZM in variations such as: Integrated Coastal Management (ICM), Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), Integrated Coastal Area Management (ICAM), and Integrated Management of Coastal Zone Environment (IMCZE).

Although details of these variations differ, they are almost universally initiated by governments and include different levels of government. Because the USERS are involved, these "integrated" approaches to management may generally be described as CO-MANAGEMENT. More and more. the user groups include "community groups".

However, the degree and effectiveness of "involvement", "sitting at the table " or being a "stakeholder" depends on the social and cultural context, the ability of local people to negotiate with the political and economic interests, and the political will of the government to ACT.

As in many natural resource areas, the management of coastal resources through central authorities has failed to curtail overexploitation and destructive impacts. However, many countries are turning to local control of many natural resources because those who directly depend on resources are often the most committed, conscious and capable guardians.

There are some problems that are difficult to control locally such as global market pressures and pollution. However, there are many issues that can be addressed locally.