Competing claims on natural resources

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4 Mar 2013
Unit: Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation
Location: The Netherlands, Wageningen
Organisation: Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation

 04 - 15 March 2013 - Centre for Development Innovation. 


Agreeing to disagree in natural resource management.
The sector of Natural resource management (NRM) is subject to continuous change. Changes are caused by societal processes such as population growth, changed consumption patterns, globalising natural resources markets, the call for democratisation in governance as well as bio-physical processes such as land degradation, biodiversity loss and climate change. In response government policies, donor priorities and societal values change. Very often these changes result in increased pressure on natural resources and increased competition in terms of access to and control over land and natural resources. Many of the management approaches we apply today may no longer be effective as a result.

The competing claims approach is a response to failing conventional NRM approaches that tend to embrace a discourse of inclusiveness and ‘easy’ win-win situations and that are unable to deal with conflicting interests, the different perceptions of stakeholders on conservation vis-à-vis development, power imbalances across and between multiple scale levels in the NRM sectors, and the implications of rapidly changing global-local interrelations in environmental governance and markets. >>read more 
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