Co-management: concepts and methodological implications.
Co-management, or the joint management of the commons, is often formulated in terms of some arrangement of power sharing between the State and a community of resource users. In reality, there often are multiple local interests and multiple government agencies at play, and co-management can hardly be...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 75; no. 1; pp. 65 - 77 |
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Academic Press Inc.
April 2005
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