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Participatory research has emerged as an approach to producing knowledge that is sufficiently grounded in local needs and realities to support community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), and it is often touted as crucial to the sustainable management of forests and other natural resources. This book analyses the current state of the art of participatory research in CBNRM. Its chapters and case studies examine recent experiences in collaborative forest management, harvesting impacts on forest shrubs, watershed restoration in Native American communities, civic environmentalism in an urban neighborhood and other topics. Although the main geographic focus of the book is the United States, the issues raised are synthesized and discussed in the context of recent critiques of participatory research and CBNRM worldwide. The book's purpose is to provide insights and lessons for academics and practitioners involved in CBNRM in many contexts. The issues it covers will be relevant to participatory research and CBNRM practitioners and students the world over.

Natural resources --- Sustainable forestry. --- Forest productivity, Maintenance of long-term --- Long-term forest productivity, Maintenance of --- Maintenance of long-term forest productivity --- Forests and forestry --- Sustainable agriculture --- Co-management of natural resources --- Collaborative management of natural resources --- Comanagement of natural resources --- Cooperative management of natural resources --- Co-management. --- Collaborative management --- Comanagement --- Cooperative management --- Management

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"With an emphasis on the challenges of sustaining the commons across local to global scales, Making Commons Dynamic examines the empirical basis of theorising the concepts of commonisation and decommonisation as a way to understand commons as a process and offers analytical directions for policy and practice that can potentially help maintain commons as commons in the future. Focusing on commonisation-decommonisation as an analytical framework useful to examine and respond to changes in the commons, the chapter contributions explore how natural resources are commonised and decommonised through the influence of multilevel internal and external drivers, and their implications for commons governance across disparate geographical and temporal contexts. It draws from a large number of geographically diverse empirical cases -- twenty countries in North, South and Central Americas, and South- and South-East Asia. They involve a wide range of commons - related to forests, grazing, wetlands, coastal-marine, rivers and dams, aquaculture, wildlife, tourism, groundwater, surface freshwater, mountains, small islands, social movements, and climate. The book is a transdisciplinary endeavour with contributions by scholars from geography, history, sociology, anthropology, political studies, planning, human ecology, cultural and applied ecology, environmental and development studies, environmental science and technology, public policy, indigenous/Tribal studies, Latin American and Asian studies, and environmental change and governance, and authors representing the commons community, NGOs, and policy. Contributors include academics, community members, NGOs, practitioners and policy-makers. Therefore, commonisation-decommonisation lessons drawn from these chapters are well suited for contributing to the practice, policy and theory of the commons, both locally and globally"--

Commons --- Natural resources, Communal. --- Natural resources --- Management. --- Co-management. --- Co-management of natural resources --- Collaborative management of natural resources --- Comanagement of natural resources --- Cooperative management of natural resources --- Common lands --- Communal land --- Communal lands --- Land tenure --- Public lands --- Real property --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Natural resources, Communal --- Village communities --- Communal natural resources --- Community-owned natural resources --- Collective settlements --- Collaborative management --- Comanagement --- Cooperative management --- Management --- Law and legislation