Project
Role of institutions in
global environmental change
for Asia Pacific Network, Japan through
International START secretariat
Summary
The role of institutions
in natural resource management is being increasingly recognized in
the context of global environment change. Policy research and analysis
carried out by institutions working in these areas normally focuses
on international or national mechanisms and programmes. While it is
accepted that these programmes contribute significantly to causing
and confronting global environmental changes, the role of local institutions
cannot be ignored. Therefore, it is necessary to study their role
and build the capacity of local communities to environmental changes.
The main objective of this research is to study the role of institutions,
especially the environmental and resource regimes, operating at the
local level in global environmental change. The specific objectives
are:
 Identify
feedbacks that exist between human and ecological systems that contribute
to global environmental change
Assess
the impact of this global environmental change on local communities
Analyze
the role that local institutions (formal and informal) play in causing
and confronting (adapting and mitigation mechanisms) global environmental
change
Build
the capacity of local communities to adapt to global environmental
change
This project involves the study of five ecosystems; traditional aquaculture
systems in Goa, the coastal agriculture system in peri-urban Karnataka,
bamboo forest systems in Haryana (all three in India), small-holder
rubber cultivation in Sri Lanka, and the forest-watershed system of
Nepal. It focuses on environmental and resource management regimes
operating at the local level and their contribution (positive and
negative) to global environmental change as well as adaptation (and
mitigation) mechanisms against global environmental changes by the
local communities and policy makers. It will also investigate best
practices in the management of resources by learning from a variety
of management systems and their dynamics.
Research
outputs
Book
title "Multiple Dimensions of Global Environmental change"
Edited by Sangeeta Sonak
New Delhi, India: TERI Press. 726 pp.
[Summary] [Contents]
Papers
selected for the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental
Change (IDGEC) conference at Bali, Indonesia in December 2006
- Why
was traditional common property resource management system more
successful in the coastal wetlands of Goa?
Sangeeta Sonak, Saltanat Kazi, Mahesh Sonak and Mary Abraham
[Abstract]
- The
problems of fit, interplay, scale and competing interests in fisheries
management
Sangeeta Sonak, Mahesh Sonak and Janet A Rubinoff
[Abstract]
Final
Technical Report
APN
2005-02-CMY-Sonak_Final technical report
Interim
Report in the APN Newsletter July 2005
- Role
of institutions in global environmental change
- http://www.apn-gcr.org/en/products/nl/2005/11_3-jul2005.pdf
 
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