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Participatory research has emerged as an approach to producing
knowledge that is sufficiently grounded in local needs and
realities to support community-based natural resource management
(CBNRM), and it is often touted as crucial to the sustainable
management of forests and other natural resources.This book
analyzes the current state of the art of participatory research in
CBNRM. Its chapters and case studies examine recent experiences in
collaborative forest management, harvesting impacts on forest
shrubs, watershed restoration in Native American communities, civic
environmentalism in an urban neighborhood and other topics.
Although the main geographic focus of the book is the United
States, the issues raised are synthesized and discussed in the
context of recent critiques of participatory research and CBNRM
worldwide. The book's purpose is to provide insights and lessons
for academics and practitioners involved in CBNRM in many contexts.
The issues it covers will be relevant to participatory research and
CBNRM practitioners and students the world over.
Engaging and opinionated, charming and forceful, Norma Paulus was
widely covered in statewide and national newspapers and television
during her eventful, sometimes controversial political career. She
ran successfully for the Oregon House of Representatives in 1970.
After three terms in the House, where she championed environmental
causes, women's rights, and government transparency, she was
elected Oregon's Secretary of State in 1976-the first woman to be
elected to a statewide office in Oregon. She was the Republican
candidate for governor in 1986, served a stint on the Northwest
Power and Conservation Council, went on to become Oregon's
superintendent of public instruction, and headed the Oregon
Historical Society. The Only Woman in the Room documents her life
and work in a lively, anecdotal history that will appeal to
historians, political scientists, newshounds, and ordinary citizens
alike.
When you live in an old house, the remodeling and
rehabilitatingnever end. I guess the same is true when you belong
to a family. A ruined old schoolhouse and a loving, troubled family
are at theheart of The Little Lucky, a reflec tion of the many ways
in which aplace can shape and be shaped by family. In discerning
and nimbleprose, Gail Wells tells the story of how she and her
husband movedfrom their tiny Seattle apartment to her grandfather's
house, formerlyan abandoned schoolhouse, near the Little Luckiamute
River ofwestern Oregon.They work earnestly to transform the
slantwise structure into a homeand discover both joy and
frustration along the way. With wry clarity,Wells reveals the
tangled dream of living in rural Oregon, chronically flooded
basement, mouse skeletons inside the bathroomwalls, and the
relentless struggle to fix the unfixable, ll while raisinga family
and salvaging a place alive with memories.Amid the angst of tearing
down and building up, Wells discoverssomething unexpec ted: a sense
of honorable struggle and the grace ofgetting what you need rather
than what you want. These stories revealan intimate geography and
the dynamic between family and ahomeplace. And these are also
stories of acceptance, of doing whatyou can and letting the rest
go; of learning what is precious and whatis expendable; of the
surprising solace of surrendering to the possible;and of gratitude
for incredible good luck.?
Participatory research has emerged as an approach to producing
knowledge that is sufficiently grounded in local needs and
realities to support community-based natural resource management
(CBNRM), and it is often touted as crucial to the sustainable
management of forests and other natural resources. This book
analyses the current state of the art of participatory research in
CBNRM. Its chapters and case studies examine recent experiences in
collaborative forest management, harvesting impacts on forest
shrubs, watershed restoration in Native American communities, civic
environmentalism in an urban neighborhood and other topics.
Although the main geographic focus of the book is the United
States, the issues raised are synthesized and discussed in the
context of recent critiques of participatory research and CBNRM
worldwide. The book's purpose is to provide insights and lessons
for academics and practitioners involved in CBNRM in many contexts.
The issues it covers will be relevant to participatory research and
CBNRM practitioners and students the world over.
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