Perspectives in Resource Management and Climate Change Adaptation in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean. MEDPRO Policy Paper No. 6, March 2013

This policy paper focuses on the sustainable management of some key natural resources in southern and eastern Mediterranean countries (SEMCs) under climate change and anthropogenic pressures. In a business-as-usual and even more so in a failed cooperation scenario, water resources, ecosystems and biodiversity in the region are under stress, with negative consequences for agriculture, food security, tourism and development. However, proper adaptation strategies are shown to be effective in reconciling resource conservation with GDP, trade and population growth. These need be implemented in different ways: technological, institutional, behavioural; and at different levels: regional, national and international. There is ample room for fruitful cooperation between the EU and SEMCs in this area, which can take the form of EU direct financial and technical support when resources in SEMCs are scarce, and of multilateral and bilateral cooperation programmes to improve resource efficiency. The EU could also take on the role of coordinating these different bilateral actions and, at the same time, support SEMCs to establish a structured programme focused on the communication and dissemination of emerging best practices.

'Institutional Shopping' for Natural Resource Management in a Protected Area and Indigenous Territory in the Bolivian Amazon.

Focusing on an overlapping protected area and indigenous territory in the Bolivian Amazon, this article discusses how indigenous people continue to negotiate access to natural resources. Using the theoretical framework of New Institutionalism, ethnographic data from participatory observations, and interviews with Takana indigenous resource users and park management staff, we identified four phases of institutional change. We argue that under the current institutionally pluralistic setting in the overlapping area, indigenous users apply “institutional shopping” to choose, according to their power and knowledge, the most advantageous institutional framework in a situation. Indigenous users strategically employed arguments of conservation, indigeneity, or long-term occupation to legitimize their claims based on the chosen institution. Our results highlight the importance of ideologies and bargaining power in shaping the interaction of individuals and institutions. As a potential application of our research to practice, we suggest that rather than seeing institutional pluralism solely as a threat to successful resource management, the strengths of different frameworks may be combined to build robust institutions from the bottom up that are adapted to the local context. This requires taking into account local informal institutions, such as cultural values and beliefs, and integrating them with conservation priorities through cross-cultural participatory planning.

Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), land and resource management plan : environmental impact statement.

F also available on the internet.

Baker resource management plan : draft : environmental impact statement /

"BLM-OR-ES-86-011-1792"--P. [4] of cover.

Study design for resource management decisions : OCS oil and gas development and the environment.

"October 1, 1978."

Workshop on Integrated Crew Resource Management (CRM) /

"May 1992."

Draft environmental impact statement : proposed land and resource management plan : Rogue River National Forest.

Includes index.

Draft environmental impact statement : proposed land and resource management plan : Malheur National Forest.

Includes index.

Record of decision, Siskiyou National Forest : Land and resource management plan : final environmental impact statement.

Running title: Siskiyou National Forest plan, record of decision.

Recycling ground water in Waushara County, Wisconsin : resource management for cold-water fish hatcheries /

Mode of access: Internet.

Overview of the draft environmental impact statement and the proposed land and resource management plan for the Toiyabe National Forest.

Cover title: Land and resource management plan, overview, Toiyabe National Forest.

A compendium of references to publications on spatial analysis applied to natural resource management as authored by U. S. university faculty members /

Cover title: Spatial analysis applied to natural resource management.

Environmental impact statement : land and resource management plan.

Cover title.

Draft environmental impact statement : land and resource management plan : Pacific Southwest Region, Klamath National Forest, Siskiyou County, California, Jackson County, Oregon.

Cover title: Draft environmental impact statement, Klamath National Forest.

Record of decision : final environmental impact statement, Hoosier National Forest land and resource management plan /

Cover title.