In recent years, knowledge systems have become a key area of concern for researchers, policy-makers, and development activists. Knowledge Systems and Natural Resources is a unique collection of case studies from Nepal. It provides rich and incisive insights into critical social processes and deliberative governance. It analyzes how knowledge is produced, disseminated, and applied in various aspects of natural resource governance in Nepal.

The book challenges the dichotomy between traditional and scientific knowledge. It proposes to differentiate among systems of knowledge on the basis of the political standing of social actors engaged in natural resource governance. It further proposes that change in governance hinges on how the diverse systems of knowledge come into deliberative interface and to what extent the unequal distribution of power and knowledge resources in society constrain the process of deliberation.

This book will be of great interest to development policy-makers, governance specialists, researchers, academics, development advisors, social activists and students of social and political sciences and natural resource management.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1
Knowledge Systems and the Deliberative Interface in Natural Resource Governance: An Overiew
Hemant R Ojha, Ram B Chhetri, Netra P Timsina, and Krishna P Paudel

Chapter 2
Agricultural Technology Development in Nepal: Critical Assessment from a Knowledge System Perspective
Netra P Timsina and Hemant R Ojha

Chapter 3
Contested Knowledge and Reconciliation in Nepal's Community Forestry: A Case of Forest Inventory Policy
Krishna P Paudel and Hemant R Ojha

Chapter 4
From Grassroots to Policy Deliberation: The Case of the Community Forest Users' Federation in Nepal
Hemant R Ojha and Netra P Timsina

Chapter 5
From Isolation to Interaction: Increasing the Knowledge Interface in the Chhattis Mauja Irrigation System of Nepal
Laya Prasad Uprety

Chapter 6
Action Research Experience on Democratizing Knowledge in Community Forestry in Nepal
Mani R Banjade, Harisharan Luintel, and Hari R Neupane

Chapter 7
Culturally Embedded Knowledge in Irrigation: People's Ways of Thriving in a Himalayan Village
Ram B. Chhetri

Chapter 8
The Deliberative Knowledge Interface: Lessons and Policy
Hemant R Ojha, Krishna P Paudel, Netra P Timsina, and Ram B Chhetri

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