Bram,
A classic and still
much-disputed work is:
John Oates, MYTH AND
REALITY IN THE RAIN FOREST: HOW CONSERVATION STRATEGIES ARE FAILING IN WEST
AFRICA (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
Also stimulating and
controversial, although for different reasons is:
James Fairhead and
Melissa Leach, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND POWER: ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND POLICY
IN WEST AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2003).
The previous work was
preceded by:
James Fairhead and Melissa Leach, MISREADING THE
AFRICAN LANDSCAPE: SOCIETY AND ECOLOGY IN A FOREST-SAVANNA MOSAIC (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996).
James Fairhead and
Melissa Leach, REFRAMING DEFORESTATION: GLOBAL ANALYSES AND LOCAL REALITIES --
STUDIES IN WEST AFRICA (London: Routledge, 1998).
Given the focus of the
graduate program you'll be trying to develop, look also
at:
Grazia
Borrini-Feyerabend et al., SHARING POWER: LEARNING BY DOING IN CO-MANAGEMENT OF
NATURAL RESOURCES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD (Tehran: IIED and IUCN/CEESP/CMWG and
Cenesta, 2004). The book is available through the World Conservation
Bookstore.
Stephen Bass et al.
(eds), REDUCING POVERTY AND SUSTAINING THE ENVIRONMENT: THE POLITICS OF LOCAL
ENGAGEMENT (London: Earthscan, 2005).
Christo Fabricius et al.
(eds), RIGHTS, RESOURCES AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT: COMMUNITY-BASED NATURAL RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA (London: Earthscan,
2005).
Arielle Levine and
Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith (eds), Wildlife, Markets, States and Communities in
Africa, 7 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE LAW AND POLICY 135-216
(2004).
I also strongly urge you
to spend time gleaning the publications sections of the web sites of the
Overseas Development Institute in London and the Institute for Development
Studies at the University of Sussex. Fairhead and Leach have had a long
association with the latter.
Geoffrey.
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Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith
Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith
Emeritus Professor of Political Science
University of California
Associate Editor/Reviews Editor
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Subject: Africa, local governance and sustainable development?
In december I will go to Ghana to assist the University of Cape Coast's Centre for Development Studies in developing a module on 'governance and local level development' within a broader Masters on 'governance and sustainable development'. Specifically geared towards environment / conservation, the course should cover issues around decentralization (institutional, legal, policy, different forms of governance e.g community based natural resource management), stakeholders and structures (incl. assemblies), process dynamics, expected (policy) outcomes (e.g. water, health, access, MDG issues), challenges/ constraints at the local level, resources (financial, material, human) of local governance, and power relations local <-> national <-> international.
I would very much appreciate suggestions for references / texts on these (broad) issues, especially in the West African / Ghanaian context.
Thanks,
Bram
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Affiliated to the University of Pretoria
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