Natural Resource Governance in Asia

Natural Resource Governance in Asia: From Collective Action to Resilience Thinking identifies key leverage points where interventions can be made surrounding current and future impacts of ongoing environmental and sociopolitical challenges. The book utilizes case studies from Asia, a key demographic for natural resource management, that can be applied globally in understanding solutions and the current state of knowledge in natural resource dynamics. Users will find valuable sections on community forestry and socioecological systems, community irrigation, competing water demand, robustness issues, climate change, and natural resource dynamics and challenges. This interdisciplinary tome on the topic is invaluable to researchers and policymakers alike.

• Combines collective action and resilience thinking to help readers understand complex issues and challenges in natural resource management
• Presents methods and case studies to validate theory in practice
• Includes up-to-date research applied to current issues to address both current and future risks and uncertainties

Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in environment, sustainability, ecology, and natural resource management (primary)

1. Managing Natural Resources in Asia: Challenges and Approaches

Part 1:
2. Decentralization of Forest Governance in Peninsular Malaysia: The Case of Peatland Swamp Forest in North Selangor
3. Agroforestry Management Practices in relation with tenure security in Koto Tangah Sub-district, Padang, West Sumatera
4. Evaluating the Rehabilitation Potential of Calliandra (Calliandra calothyrsus Meissn.) in Degraded Areas through Landscape Function Analysis in Manolo Fortich, Budiknon, Philippines
5. Provincial Autonomy and Forest Management Unit (FMU) Legislation in Aceh Province, Indonesia: A Review of Regulatory Asynchronies
6. Adaptive System's Coupling in the Development of Community Forest
7. Evaluating Forest Rehabilitation Policies in Southeast Asia: A Case Study from Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines
8. Governance of Mangrove Ecosystems in Northern Vietnam with Consideration of Impacts of Sea-level Rise and Climate Change

Part II: Community Irrigation and Robustness Challenges
9. Trust and Cooperation in managing small-scale irrigation systems of Nepal
10. An Institutional Analysis of Gundalav Lake Governance
11. Complexity of property rights reformation in fishery resource governance in China
12. Role of local institutions in irrigation management at the rural-urban interface in Thailand
13. Diagnosing Multiple Disturbances to Irrigation Systems in Nepal
14. Analysis of Water Management Institutions and Systems of Pakistan Using Key Debate, Controversies and Changing Future Landscapes
15. Factors Affecting Farmer’s Choice of Tubewell Ownership in Punjab, Pakistan

Part III: Climate Change, Natural Resources Dynamics and Land Use Challenges
16. An Adaptive Framework for Follow-up of Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA)
17. Indigenous People in the Dynamics of Land Use Changes, Forest Fires and Haze in Riau Province, Indonesia
18. Crop Insurance Purchase Decisions of Small-Scale Irrigation Farmers in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand
19. Environmental Regulations and Agricultural Product Trade: A case of Thailand
20. Land Use Change, Climate Change and River basin Management: A Preliminary Study in the small river basin of Batang Paninggahan, West Sumatra, Indonesia
21. Climate-induced water scarcity and the effectiveness of community-based water resource management
22. Irrigation Water Management under Climate Change: Local Perceptions and Adaptation
23. Theoretical Implication of Current Social Problems in Japan to the Studies of the Commons
24. What will it take to make Indian cities Water Resilient? Case of Integrated Lake Basin Management at Indore
25. Using System Archetypes to Understand Natural Resource Management Issues in Asia