Participatory Local Democracy

Abstract: In Botswana, the entangling of natural resource policy with identity politics contributed to a partial recentralization of CBNRM. Decentralization has been associated with democratization in that decentralized natural resource management is virtually equated with empowerment of local resource users.

Author(s): Poteete, Amy R.

Source(s): Development and change; 40(2009)2, p. 281-305 Development and change 40(2009)2

Published: 2009 Blackwell, Oxford [etc.] (English

ISBN/ISSN: /0012-155X

Link: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/centers-programs/centers/mrcbg/programs/ssp/docs/events/conferences/2011/aaas/background_materials/Poteete_Dev_Change_2009.pdf