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Management of Natural Resource Conflict in Nepal: Conflicts over land, water and forest resources and their resolution systems - Couverture souple

Upreti, Bishnu

 
9783838337777: Management of Natural Resource Conflict in Nepal: Conflicts over land, water and forest resources and their resolution systems

Synopsis

Natural resources are not only basis of livelihood of Nepalese people but also part of identity, symbol of recognition and prestige, safety net for insecurity and means for accessing to state services. Hence, natural resource conflicts are deeply embedded Nepal’s socio-economic and demographic characteristics, state’s resource governance systems and political structures. Formal conflict management mechanisms, institutional arrangements, legal frameworks and operational procedures in Nepal are methodologically inadequate, financially expensive, administratively difficult, elite-biased and inaccessible to the poor and marginalized sections of society and therefore demand fundamental change. Addressing the dynamics and complications of resource conflict in Nepal and contribution to social change and economic transformation need interactive conflict management system that include a people-centred, learning-based and action-oriented methodology, flexible institutional arrangement, supportive legal arrangements and adaptive approach.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Natural resources are not only basis of livelihood of Nepalese people but also part of identity, symbol of recognition and prestige, safety net for insecurity and means for accessing to state services. Hence, natural resource conflicts are deeply embedded Nepal’s socio-economic and demographic characteristics, state’s resource governance systems and political structures. Formal conflict management mechanisms, institutional arrangements, legal frameworks and operational procedures in Nepal are methodologically inadequate, financially expensive, administratively difficult, elite-biased and inaccessible to the poor and marginalized sections of society and therefore demand fundamental change. Addressing the dynamics and complications of resource conflict in Nepal and contribution to social change and economic transformation need interactive conflict management system that include a people-centred, learning-based and action-oriented methodology, flexible institutional arrangement, supportive legal arrangements and adaptive approach.

Biographie de l'auteur

Bishnu Raj Upreti is academic, researcher and practitioner from Nepal. With PhD (conflict management) from Netherlands, he researches, teaches and publishes based on field study in Nepal, Northern Ireland, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Ivory Cost, Tajikistan, Pakistan and India.He is South Asia Coordinator of NCCR North-South.

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