Abstract

Recognizing that community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approaches have had mixed success in pastoral rangelands, this paper compares five case studies—two from Kenya, two from Ethiopia and one from Tunisia—to identify aspects of social-ecological context that affect the implementation and success of CBNRM in pastoral settings. Data for each case was collected following a common protocol. Among the characteristics that emerged from our study as important were socio-political and biophysical characteristics of the wider landscape within which the community’s rangeland territory is located and the extent to which that territory is circumscribed by some combination of other land uses and land tenure types, major political boundaries, and physical landscape features. The analysis of these cases suggests that where pastoralist communities coexist in large, open rangeland landscapes, rather than a narrowly community-based approach, natural resource management interventions need to be explicitly multi-level and horizontally flexible.

摘要

认识到基于社区的自然资源管理 (CBNRM) 方法在牧区取得了不同的成功，本文比较了五个案例研究——两个来自肯尼亚，两个来自埃塞俄比亚，一个来自突尼斯——以确定影响牧场的社会生态背景的各个方面CBNRM 在牧区环境中的实施和成功。每个案例的数据都是按照通用协议收集的。在我们的研究中发现的重要特征包括社区牧场领地所在的更广泛景观的社会政治和生物物理特征，以及该领地受其他土地利用和土地所有权类型的某种组合限制的程度，主要的政治边界和自然景观特征。