Keywords:
Natural resources -- Brazil -- Management.
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Action research -- Brazil.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This work evaluates the merits of a widely-used approach to natural resource management, participatory action research (PAR), an approach to resource management that strives to link researchers with farmers and other local residents whose lives are effected by long-range conservation programmes.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (244 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203508565
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=183232
DDC:
333.71609811
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Background -- Chapter 1 Approaches to Resource Conservation -- Traditional Scientific Approaches -- Conventional Methods of Intervention for Natural Resource Management -- Participatory Approaches -- Evaluation of an Alternative -- Chapter 2 Participatory Action Research -- Action Research: A Brief History -- Applications of Participatory Action Research for Natural Resource Management -- Is Participatory Action Research Scientific? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Conceptual Framework -- The Interpretationist Tradition -- An Interpretative Model -- The Extended Rationality Postulate -- The Constructivist Model -- Case Study Methods -- Chapter 4 The Resource Management Problem -- Tropical Deforestation -- The Setting -- PAET: Programa Agro-Ecologico da Transamazônica -- Part II The Participatory Action Research Experience -- Chapter 5 The Partnership with Farmers' Organizations -- The Starting Point -- Development of the PAET Program -- Activities Undertaken -- Results of the Partnership with Farmers' Organizations -- Chapter 6 Case Studies of the Multiple Stakeholders Platform Method -- Assumptions About the Multiple Stakeholders Platform Method Used in Municipal Participatory Planning -- Case I: Uruará -- Case II: Porto de Moz -- Case III: Altamira -- Lessons from the Case Studies -- Conclusions on the Platform Method of Participatory Planning -- The Potential of Participatory Action Research for Testing Methods -- Photo Essay -- Chapter 7 Results at the Farm Level -- Research Development on Perennial Crops and Agroforestry -- The Credit Debate -- Evaluation of PAET from the Farmers' Point of View -- The Learning Process -- Conclusion -- Part III Lessons from the Participatory Action Research in the Transamazônica.
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Chapter 8 The Relationship Between Farmers and Researchers: Why There Was No Common Strategy -- Lack of MPST Interest in Sustainable Development and Better Management of Natural Resources -- The Farmers' Perspective -- Failure to Communicate? -- Evaluation of the Partnership Between Researchers and Farmers -- Chapter 9 Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: A Comparison of Conventional Diagnoses and Diagnoses Based on PAR -- Conventional Diagnoses -- Proposals to Mitigate Deforestation -- Overview of Conventional Analyses and Solutions -- The LAET Diagnosis -- Proposals for Improving Farming Systems -- Summary of LAET's Diagnosis -- Comparison of PAR and Conventional Diagnoses -- Identification of Applied Research Priorities -- Chapter 10 Evaluation of the Participatory Action Research Approach -- Diagnosis -- Methods of Intervention -- Process Analysis -- Linking Action Research and Basic Research -- Results at the Field Level -- Scaling Up to the National Level -- Conditions for Developing New Participatory Action Research Projects -- Conclusions on Participatory Action Research -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Appendix 2 LAET Publications -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
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