Communication and Natural Resource Management Experience/Theory

Prepared by The Communication Initiative in collaboration with the Communication for Development Group
Extension, Education and Communication ServiceResearch, Extension and Training DivisionSustainable Development Department
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
About the authors
Introduction
Using This Book
A World of Finite Resources
Critical Perspectives
Changing Approaches to Natural Resource Management
Communication for development and Social Change
Insights and Direction
Experience 1 - Community Based Natural Resource Management - Namibia
Theme: Principles and Action
Learning Objective: To improve participants' understanding of the relationship between differing communication principles for effective change, and the planning and organisation of their actions.
Experience 2 - Pastoralist Communication - Kenya
Theme: Voices and Action
Learning Objective: To advance participants' understanding of effective communication strategies, where substantive action is sourced in the voice and perspective of the people most affected.
Experience 3 - Indigenous Forest Management - Cambodia
Theme: Issue Analysis for Action
Learning Objective: To expand participants' skills at analyzing the issues to be addressed by the communication initiative.
Experience 4 - Recovering from Conflict - Viet Nam
Theme: Contextual Analysis for Action
Learning Objective: To improve participants' skills at analyzing the contexts for change.
Experience 5 - Internet Radio - Sri Lanka
Theme: Culture and Action
Learning Objective: To expand participants' awareness of the relationship between culture, context and strategy, in developing effective communication initiatives.
Experience 6 - Regional Networking - Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Theme: Behavioural or Social Action
Learning Objective: To develop participants' ability to understand the relation between individual behaviour change and structural/social obstacles or supports to that change.
Experience 7 - Creating Local Organic Markets - Turkey
Theme: Education or Dialogue for Action
Learning Objective: To improve participant's ability to understand key differences between approaches emphasising education or dialogue and the programmatic implications of those emphases.
Experience 8 - Environmental Education and Communication Project: El Salvador, The Gambia, and Jordan
Theme: Innovation and Action
Learning Objective: To heighten participants' critical skills at matching the requirements for action with the context for that action.
Drawing Your Own Conclusions
Theme: Planning for Action
Learning Objective: To prioritise the lessons of the previous 8 experiences and reflect on how they will impact your future communication for development and NRM work.
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