"European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)."

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Democratic decentralisation through a natural resource lens : an introduction -- Between micro-politics and administrative imperatives : decentralisation and the watershed mission in Madhya Pradesh, India -- Decentralisation when land and resource rights are deeply contested : a case study of the Mkambati eco-tourism project on the wild coast of South Africa -- Formal decentralisation and the imperative of decentralisation 'from below' : a case study of natural resource management in Nicaragua -- Democratic decentralisation and traditional authority : dilemmas of land administration in rural South Africa -- What lies behind decentralisation? : forest, powers, and actors in lowland Bolivia -- Closer to people and trees : will decentralisation work for the people and the forests of Indonesia? -- Decentralisation, rural livelihoods, and pasture-land management in post-socialist Mongolia -- Decentralisation and accountability in forest management : a case from Yunnan, Southwest China -- The social and organisational roots of ecological uncertainties in Cameroon's forest management decentralisation model -- User committees : a potentially damaging second wave of decentralisation? -- Decentralising water resource management in Brazil -- Decentralising natural resource management : a recipe for sustainability and equity?.