Merging a Landscape Management Planning Approach With the Community Capitals Framework: Empowering Local Groups in Land Management Processes in Bocas del Toro, Panama

Isabel Gutierrez-Montes, Jackeline Siles, Patricia Bartol and Alejandro C. Imbach

Community Development, 2009, vol. 40, issue 2, 220-230

Abstract: Community management of natural resources is well supported by many field experiences as an effective way to improve people's well-being while maintaining their natural resource base. The approach has been reasonably achieved within community groups and the community as a whole. Nonetheless, there are fewer experiences at multi-community or regional levels (landscape). In this article we describe a participatory action research project that led to a successful multicommunity regional management plan. Using the Community Capitals Framework to help community members see their region as a system with assets and the managed landscape approach to focus on key decision points, the process led to an inclusive and successful planning process with high potential for implementation. We highlight the lessons learned from this experience and identify potential limitations to its use.

Date: 2009
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/15575330903004418 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:comdev:v:40:y:2009:i:2:p:220-230

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/RCOD20

DOI: 10.1080/15575330903004418

Access Statistics for this article

Community Development is currently edited by John Green, Rhonda Phillips and Anne Heinze Silvis

More articles in Community Development from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().