Resource use without resource management is non-sustainable. But equally any attempt to establish resource management without resource use is likely to be futile…
The evidence is that communities can become effective institutions for sustainable resource management, but only if they are granted genuine proprietorship, that is, the right to use resources, determine the mode of usage, benefit fully from their use, determine the distribution of such benefits and determine rules of access.
Murphree, M. W. (1993). Communities As Resource Management Institutions. IIED Gatekeeper Series No. SA36, 1993. London, UK
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