Institutions and natural resource management

Projects organized by the Christian Michelsen Institute, Norway during 1997, focusing on institution development and natural resource management are examined. These are: NODE (Norwegian Consortium for Development and Environment); tropical agriculture and deforestation: economic theories and a study from Indonesia; review of economic models of deforestation; poverty and environment; alternative strategies for forest resource development; livelihoods and environmental change in the hills of Nepal; what's love got to do with it? household modelling in a gendered principal-agent perspective; management, co-management or no management? major dilemmas in sustainable exploitation of inland fisheries in SADC countries; the Borana (Ethiopia) land use project; development issues and challenges for the future in Borana; environmental impacts of refugee re-integration in Eritrea; international migration, institutions and access to resources in continental fisheries: the case of Malian fishermen; research and fisheries management: the uneasy relationship, review of the Zambia-Zimbabwe SADC fisheries project (Lake Kariba); resource management, local knowledge and cosmology in the Palas Valley, North Pakistan; collective ownership and forest conservation: a comparative study from Pakistan; land reform in Ethiopia; poverty, institutions and environmental degradation in tropical agriculture: theories and a study from Indonesia; an analysis of multi-agent exploitation of fishery resources; optimal joint harvesting of a cannibalistic stock: the case of north east arctic cod; economics of the Namibian hake fishery; and trends in economic and social development in Malawi.