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Watersheds --- Adaptive natural resource management

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The book 'African Potentials’ for Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource Management' explores alternative approaches to conservation and resource management in Africa, challenging the traditional 'fortress' conservation model. Edited by Toshio Meguro, Chihiro Ito, and Kariuki Kirigia, it compiles research from various scholars studying socio-ecological systems, rural livelihoods, and political ecology across the continent. The book emphasizes indigenous knowledge and local strategies for sustainable resource use, highlighting case studies from Namibia, Madagascar, Zambia, and Kenya, among others. It targets researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in innovative conservation methods that integrate community involvement and cultural considerations.

Wildlife conservation. --- Adaptive natural resource management. --- Wildlife conservation --- Adaptive natural resource management

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Post-fire forest management. --- Adaptive natural resource management. --- Wildfires.

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Complexity theories gained prominence in the 1990s with a focus on self-organising and complex adaptive systems. Since then, complexity theory has become one of the fastest growing topics in both the natural and social sciences, and touted as a revolutionary way of understanding the behaviour of complex systems.This book uses complexity theory to surface and challenge the deeply held cultural assumptions that shape how we think about reality and knowledge. In doing so it shows how our traditional approaches to generating and applying knowledge may be paradoxically exacerbating some of the ‘wicked’ environmental problems we are currently facing. The author proposes an innovative and compelling argument for rejecting old constructs of knowledge transfer, adaptive management and adaptive capacity. The book also presents a distinctively coherent and comprehensive synthesis of cognition, learning, knowledge and organizing from a complexity perspective. It concludes with a reconceptualization of the problem of knowledge transfer from a complexity perspective, proposing the concept of creative capacity as an alternative to adaptive capacity as a measure of resilience in socio-ecological systems.Although written from an environmental management perspective, it is relevant to the broader natural sciences and to a range of other disciplines, including knowledge management, organizational learning, organizational management, and the philosophy of science.

Environmental management --- Knowledge management --- Adaptive natural resource management --- Complexity (Philosophy)

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This Forest Policy Note, prepared by the World Bank, offers an outside view of the Turkish Forestry Sector, provides some strategic guidance to help define sector goals, and identifies opportunities for consideration in the continued development of the sector and for the implementation of the Turkish/World Bank Country Partnership Strategy which recognizes that the sustainable management of natural resources and nature protection are growing in importance as long-term challenges, along with climate change adaptation. The note aims to offer guidance on how the forest resource can continue to provide environmental goods and services while supporting both forest villages and the wood processing sector in a sustainable and cost efficient manner into the future. Turkey's natural resources face increasing pressures from growth in energy use, industry, transport, tourism, and agriculture resulting in water stress, soil erosion and pollution. Turkey is already addressing a range of regulatory and institutional reforms in the environment and forestry sectors and prioritizing investment programs in infrastructure, pollution mitigation, and afforestation. Measures to address these challenges are now becoming a priority for the Government. This Forest Policy Note (FPN) builds on previous work within the forestry sector. It aims to inform the World Bank project formulation process and the forestry sector by reviewing the sector and highlighting the main policy issues and identifying possible actions. This study will assist in identifying and designing investment opportunities within the sector. It is not a forest policy per se, although it could serve as an input to a forest policy formulation process.

Agriculture --- Environment and Natural Resource Management --- Environmental Policies and Institutions --- Natural Resources Management