This theme within our development studies research encompasses a cluster of overlapping sub-themes:

• The management of common property resources, including forests, rangelands and water
• Land policy and land reform
• Vulnerability to disasters, and disaster management, particularly in respect to drought and floods
• Urban environmental management, particularly relating to small enterprises
• The role of Information and Communication Technologies in resource management and in the communication of policy

In all these sub-themes our work is driven by a concern for livelihoods and for sustainability.

Staff

Prof. John Morton
Terry Cannon
Martin (Czech) Conroy
Dr Nandini Dasgupta
Valerie Nelson
Dr Robert Ridgway

Projects

Water, Households and Rural Livelihoods

Publications

Butterworth, J.A., Moriarty, P.B., & van Koppen, B. (eds) (2003) Water, poverty, and productive uses of water at the household level: practical experiences, new research, and policy implications from innovative approaches to the provision and use of household water supplies. Proceedings of an international symposium held in Pretoria, South Africa, 21-23 January 2003. IRC, Delft, Netherlands and at: http://www.musgroup.net/page/425

Moriarty, P.B., Butterworth, J.A., & van Koppen, B. (eds) (forthcoming September 2003) Beyond domestic: productive uses of water at the household level. IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, Delft.

Cannon, T. (2002) Gender and climate hazards in Bangladesh. Gender and Development 10(2): 45-50. (also appearing in R Masika (ed.) (2002) Gender, Development and Climate Change, Oxfam, Oxford).

Conroy, C., Iyengar, S., Lobo, V., and Rao, B. (2001) Household Livelihood and Coping Strategies in Semi-Arid India: Adapting to Long-term Changes. Society for the Promotion of Wastelands Development, Delhi.

Conroy, C., Mishra, A., Rai, A., and Chan, M-K. (2001) Conflicts affecting participatory forest management: their nature and implications. Pp. 165-184 in Vira, B. and Jeffery, R. (eds) Participatory Natural Resource Management: Analytical Perspectives.: Palgrave, Basingstoke, UK.

Conroy, C., Mishra, A. and Rai, A. Learning from self-initiated community forest management in Orissa, India, Forest Policy and Economics 4: 227-237.

Dasgupta. N. (2002) Small is not always beautiful: environmental enforcement and small industries in India. Pp. 50-74 in Katrak, H. and Strange, R. (eds) Small Enterprises in Developing and Transitional Economies. Palgrave, Basingstoke, UK.

Grimble, R. (ed.) (2002) Biodiversity Management in Rural Development. Natural Resources Institute, Chatham, UK.

Janowski, M. (2001) When both men and women are sacred custodians of the earth - the Kelabit of Sarawak. Pp. 107-120 in Tremayne, S. and Low, A. (eds) Sacred Custodians of the Earth? Women, Spirituality and the Environment. Berghahn, Oxford and New York.

Janowski, M. and Zanré, R. (2002) Participatory initiatives in biodiversity conservation : lessons from experience. Pp. 69-100 in Grimble, R. (ed) Biodiversity Management in Rural Development. Natural Resources Institute, Chatham, UK.

Lamboll, R., Morris, M., and van Broekhoven, L. (2002) Biodiversity conservation and rural development in Tanzania: experiences, examples and issues. Pp. 163-229 in Grimble, R. (ed) Biodiversity Management in Rural Development. Natural Resources Institute, Chatham, UK.

Morton, J. (ed.) (2001) Pastoralism, Drought and Planning: Lessons from Northern Kenya and Elsewhere. Natural Resources Institute, Chatham, UK.

Morton, J. (2001) The Electronic Dissemination of Policy Information; Experiences from the Livestock-Environment Toolbox. Journal of International Development 13: 877-891.

Morton, J. and D. Barton (2002) Destocking as a drought mitigation strategy: clarifying rationales and answering critiques. Disasters 26(3): 213-228.

Nelson, V., Meadows, K., Cannon, T., Morton, J. and Martin, A. (2002) Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations", Gender and Development, 10(2): 51-59 (also appearing in R Masika (ed.) (2002) Gender, Development and Climate Change, Oxfam, Oxford).

Nelson, V., Tallontire, A. and Collinson, C. (2002) Assessing the potential of ethical trade schemes for forest dependent people: comparative experiences from Peru and Ecuador. International Forestry Review 4(2): 99-110.

Wood, C.D., Badve, V.C., Shindey, D.N. and Conroy, C. (2001) Contrasts in grazing management and diet between goat herds owned by two ethnic groups in Rajasthan, India. Livestock Research for Rural Development, 13 (5).