Chasca Twyman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1406401 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Chasca Twyman |
| NOMBRES | Chasca |
| APELLIDO | Twyman |
| FIRMA | TWYMAN C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 346 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Community‐Based Natural Resource Management
Community‐based natural resource management (CBNRM) encompasses both a broad approach to the community management of natural resources as well as a defined project format or program that is implemented through specific policies and practices. Emerging in the 1980s, it was seen as the panacea to conservation and poverty alleviation. However, CBNRM has come under fire recently for departing from its central ethos and even contradicting some of its …
A place-based approach to payments for ecosystem services
We introduce and define a place-based approach to Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES). • The approach incorporates multi-level governance, bundling and shared values for ecosystem services. • The approach is evaluated using case study research to develop the Peatland Code. • Place-based PES schemes may mitigate negative trade-offs between ecosystem services. • They may more effectively include cultural ecosystem services and empower stakeholders…
What is carbon? Conceptualising carbon and capabilities in the context of community sequestration projects in the global South
Carbon has been described as a ‘surreal commodity.’ While carbon trading, storage, sequestration, and emissions have become a part of the contemporary climate lexicon, how carbon is understood, valued, and interpreted by actors responsible for implementing carbon sequestration projects is still unclear. In this review paper, we are concerned with how carbon has come to take on a range of meanings. In particular, we appraise what is known about th…
Research and Fieldwork in Development
pt. 1. Planning development research -- pt. 2. Collecting and analyzing data -- pt. 3. Presenting and writing up research
NGOs, elite capture and community-driven development
This article examines the problems of elite capture in community-driven development (CDD). Drawing on two case studies of non-governmental organisation (NGO) intervention in rural Mozambique, the authors consider two important variables - (1) the diverse and complex contributions of local elites to CDD in different locations and (2) the roles that non-elites play in monitoring and controlling leader activities - to argue that donors should be cau…
Flooding, resettlement, and change in livelihoods
Post-disaster development policies, such as resettlement, can have major impacts on communities. This paper examines how and why people's livelihoods change as a result of resettlement, and relocated people's views of such changes, in the context of natural disasters. It presents two historically-grounded, comparative case studies of post-flood resettlement in rural Mozambique. The studies demonstrate a movement away from rain-fed subsistence agr…
Climate Science, Development Practice, and Policy Interactions in Dryland Agroecological Systems
Twyman, C., E. D. G. Fraser, L. C. Stringer, C. Quinn, A. J. Dougill, F. Ravera, T. A. Crane, and S. M. Sallu. 2011. Climate science, development practice, and policy interactions in dryland agroecological systems. Ecology and Society 16(3): 14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04261-160314
Evaluating Successful Livelihood Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change in Southern Africa
Osbahr, H., C. Twyman, W. N. Adger, and D. S. G. Thomas. 2010. Evaluating successful livelihood adaptation to climate variability and change in southern Africa. Ecology and Society 15(2): 27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03388-150227
Resilient or Vulnerable Livelihoods? Assessing Livelihood Dynamics and Trajectories in Rural Botswana
Sallu, S. M., C. Twyman, and L. C. Stringer. 2010. Resilient or vulnerable livelihoods? Assessing livelihood dynamics and trajectories in rural Botswana. Ecology and Society 15(4): 3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03505-150403
Adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification
Effective livelihood adaptation to climate change disturbance
Learning from the South
Small-scale farmers all over the world face a number of common biophysical and socio-economic challenges. In this paper we draw on data from a workshop held in the UK in 2005, to assess whether experiences in addressing these challenges, as gained in the global South, may be used to inform solutions to similar challenges in the UK. In doing so, we contribute to a growing body of literature that seeks to challenge predominantly North-South flows o…
Adaptation to climate change and variability
Combating Land Degradation through Participatory Means
This paper examines a community grazing project to rehabilitate degraded land in Swaziland. Using data from interviews, questionnaires, and focus groups, we show that the ways in which participatory, decentralized approaches to natural resource management play out at the local level are closely linked to national-level power structures. The successes and issues that emerge at different stages of the grazing project reflect local socioeconomic pri…
From global politics to local land users
This paper explores the relevance of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and its related National Action Programmes (NAPs) to people affected by land degradation and change in Swaziland. Household data collected from three chiefdoms are examined, together with policy analyses and information from interviews with policymakers and NGO representatives, as the barriers that inhibit successful implementation of the UNCCD at…
Hidden livelihoods
Natural resources and their contribution to livelihoods have been widely explored within rural contexts yet have received relatively little attention within urban contexts. However, natural resources can contribute significantly, if modestly, to urban livelihoods in a number of often ‘hidden’ ways. This paper explores these ‘hidden’ livelihoods using livelihoods frameworks to enhance our understanding of the dynamics of urban-based natural resour…
Equity and justice in climate change adaptation amongst natural-resource-dependent societies
Where is the life in farming?’
Sustainable development in drylands
Upington, on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, 70 scientists, many geographers, participated in an international conference entitled 'Dryland Change 2001'.The delegates came from 15 countries, and all were either participants of International Geological Correlation Programme project 413, 'Understanding future dryland change from past dynamics', or the International Geographical Union Land Degradation Commission.The meeting, in which …
Soil degradation assessment in mixed farming systems of southern Africa
Soil degradation assessments for mixed farming systems of the Molopo Basin (North West Province, South Africa and Southern District, Botswana) are provided from farmer-based research, designed to quantify nutrient fluxes across the farming system and to analyze the social, economic, political and environmental factors affecting nutrient management practices. This paper discusses the practical difficulties of how to use participatory farmer-led st…
Community fencing in open rangelands
This article examines the cross‐cutting debates of empowerment, vulnerability, sustainability and livelihoods within the local and global contexts relevant to the people of Okonyoka, a settlement of less than 150 people situated in the heart of Eastern Namibia's southern communal lands. Here, people are adapting their livelihoods flexibly in response to both environmental natural resource variability and to changes in social institutions and land…
Participatory Conservation? Community-based Natural Resource Management in Botswana
This paper examines the complexities of participatory conservation through a case study of the process of participation in a government funded community-based natural resource management programme in Western Botswana. The paper argues that different stakeholders have very different views on the levels of participation taking place in particular projects. Furthermore local people find it difficult to voice their concerns about the environment and …
Livelihood Opportunity and Diversity in Kalahari Wildlife Management Areas, Botswana
Metadata only record
The final fifth
This paper addresses concerns about the complexities of cross‐cultural field‐ work, and the importance of the positionality of researchers and translators in the research process. These concerns build upon debates within the social sciences about autobiography, reflexivity and the research process, as well as notions of validity, reliability and ‘truth’. The paper re‐examines these debates in the context of cross‐cultural research by focusing on …
Rethinking community resource management
Increasingly complex discussions concerning North-South relations and global environmental strategies are producing debate about the links between poverty and the environment. This paper looks specifically at societal-environmental interactions under the simultaneous impacts of climatic variability and structural land-use changes. The context of these changes is provided by the establishment of Wildlife Management Areas in Botswana in 1986. The p…
Equity and justice in climate change adaptation amongst natural-resource-dependent societies
Effective livelihood adaptation to climate change disturbance
Participatory Conservation? Community-based Natural Resource Management in Botswana
This paper examines the complexities of participatory conservation through a case study of the process of participation in a government funded community-based natural resource management programme in Western Botswana. The paper argues that different stakeholders have very different views on the levels of participation taking place in particular projects. Furthermore local people find it difficult to voice their concerns about the environment and …
Adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification
Flooding, resettlement, and change in livelihoods
Post-disaster development policies, such as resettlement, can have major impacts on communities. This paper examines how and why people's livelihoods change as a result of resettlement, and relocated people's views of such changes, in the context of natural disasters. It presents two historically-grounded, comparative case studies of post-flood resettlement in rural Mozambique. The studies demonstrate a movement away from rain-fed subsistence agr…
The final fifth
This paper addresses concerns about the complexities of cross‐cultural field‐ work, and the importance of the positionality of researchers and translators in the research process. These concerns build upon debates within the social sciences about autobiography, reflexivity and the research process, as well as notions of validity, reliability and ‘truth’. The paper re‐examines these debates in the context of cross‐cultural research by focusing on …
Resilient or Vulnerable Livelihoods? Assessing Livelihood Dynamics and Trajectories in Rural Botswana
Sallu, S. M., C. Twyman, and L. C. Stringer. 2010. Resilient or vulnerable livelihoods? Assessing livelihood dynamics and trajectories in rural Botswana. Ecology and Society 15(4): 3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03505-150403
A place-based approach to payments for ecosystem services
We introduce and define a place-based approach to Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES). • The approach incorporates multi-level governance, bundling and shared values for ecosystem services. • The approach is evaluated using case study research to develop the Peatland Code. • Place-based PES schemes may mitigate negative trade-offs between ecosystem services. • They may more effectively include cultural ecosystem services and empower stakeholders…
Evaluating Successful Livelihood Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change in Southern Africa
Osbahr, H., C. Twyman, W. N. Adger, and D. S. G. Thomas. 2010. Evaluating successful livelihood adaptation to climate variability and change in southern Africa. Ecology and Society 15(2): 27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03388-150227
Where is the life in farming?’
Learning from the South
Small-scale farmers all over the world face a number of common biophysical and socio-economic challenges. In this paper we draw on data from a workshop held in the UK in 2005, to assess whether experiences in addressing these challenges, as gained in the global South, may be used to inform solutions to similar challenges in the UK. In doing so, we contribute to a growing body of literature that seeks to challenge predominantly North-South flows o…
Rethinking community resource management
Increasingly complex discussions concerning North-South relations and global environmental strategies are producing debate about the links between poverty and the environment. This paper looks specifically at societal-environmental interactions under the simultaneous impacts of climatic variability and structural land-use changes. The context of these changes is provided by the establishment of Wildlife Management Areas in Botswana in 1986. The p…
NGOs, elite capture and community-driven development
This article examines the problems of elite capture in community-driven development (CDD). Drawing on two case studies of non-governmental organisation (NGO) intervention in rural Mozambique, the authors consider two important variables - (1) the diverse and complex contributions of local elites to CDD in different locations and (2) the roles that non-elites play in monitoring and controlling leader activities - to argue that donors should be cau…
Community fencing in open rangelands
This article examines the cross‐cutting debates of empowerment, vulnerability, sustainability and livelihoods within the local and global contexts relevant to the people of Okonyoka, a settlement of less than 150 people situated in the heart of Eastern Namibia's southern communal lands. Here, people are adapting their livelihoods flexibly in response to both environmental natural resource variability and to changes in social institutions and land…
Livelihood Opportunity and Diversity in Kalahari Wildlife Management Areas, Botswana
Metadata only record
Combating Land Degradation through Participatory Means
This paper examines a community grazing project to rehabilitate degraded land in Swaziland. Using data from interviews, questionnaires, and focus groups, we show that the ways in which participatory, decentralized approaches to natural resource management play out at the local level are closely linked to national-level power structures. The successes and issues that emerge at different stages of the grazing project reflect local socioeconomic pri…
From global politics to local land users
This paper explores the relevance of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and its related National Action Programmes (NAPs) to people affected by land degradation and change in Swaziland. Household data collected from three chiefdoms are examined, together with policy analyses and information from interviews with policymakers and NGO representatives, as the barriers that inhibit successful implementation of the UNCCD at…
Soil degradation assessment in mixed farming systems of southern Africa
Soil degradation assessments for mixed farming systems of the Molopo Basin (North West Province, South Africa and Southern District, Botswana) are provided from farmer-based research, designed to quantify nutrient fluxes across the farming system and to analyze the social, economic, political and environmental factors affecting nutrient management practices. This paper discusses the practical difficulties of how to use participatory farmer-led st…
What is carbon? Conceptualising carbon and capabilities in the context of community sequestration projects in the global South
Carbon has been described as a ‘surreal commodity.’ While carbon trading, storage, sequestration, and emissions have become a part of the contemporary climate lexicon, how carbon is understood, valued, and interpreted by actors responsible for implementing carbon sequestration projects is still unclear. In this review paper, we are concerned with how carbon has come to take on a range of meanings. In particular, we appraise what is known about th…
Hidden livelihoods
Natural resources and their contribution to livelihoods have been widely explored within rural contexts yet have received relatively little attention within urban contexts. However, natural resources can contribute significantly, if modestly, to urban livelihoods in a number of often ‘hidden’ ways. This paper explores these ‘hidden’ livelihoods using livelihoods frameworks to enhance our understanding of the dynamics of urban-based natural resour…
Rethinking community resource management
Increasingly complex discussions concerning North-South relations and global environmental strategies are producing debate about the links between poverty and the environment. This paper looks specifically at societal-environmental interactions under the simultaneous impacts of climatic variability and structural land-use changes. The context of these changes is provided by the establishment of Wildlife Management Areas in Botswana in 1986. The p…
The final fifth
This paper addresses concerns about the complexities of cross‐cultural field‐ work, and the importance of the positionality of researchers and translators in the research process. These concerns build upon debates within the social sciences about autobiography, reflexivity and the research process, as well as notions of validity, reliability and ‘truth’. The paper re‐examines these debates in the context of cross‐cultural research by focusing on …
Participatory Conservation? Community-based Natural Resource Management in Botswana
This paper examines the complexities of participatory conservation through a case study of the process of participation in a government funded community-based natural resource management programme in Western Botswana. The paper argues that different stakeholders have very different views on the levels of participation taking place in particular projects. Furthermore local people find it difficult to voice their concerns about the environment and …
Livelihood Opportunity and Diversity in Kalahari Wildlife Management Areas, Botswana
Metadata only record
Community fencing in open rangelands
This article examines the cross‐cutting debates of empowerment, vulnerability, sustainability and livelihoods within the local and global contexts relevant to the people of Okonyoka, a settlement of less than 150 people situated in the heart of Eastern Namibia's southern communal lands. Here, people are adapting their livelihoods flexibly in response to both environmental natural resource variability and to changes in social institutions and land…
Sustainable development in drylands
Upington, on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, 70 scientists, many geographers, participated in an international conference entitled 'Dryland Change 2001'.The delegates came from 15 countries, and all were either participants of International Geological Correlation Programme project 413, 'Understanding future dryland change from past dynamics', or the International Geographical Union Land Degradation Commission.The meeting, in which …
Soil degradation assessment in mixed farming systems of southern Africa
Soil degradation assessments for mixed farming systems of the Molopo Basin (North West Province, South Africa and Southern District, Botswana) are provided from farmer-based research, designed to quantify nutrient fluxes across the farming system and to analyze the social, economic, political and environmental factors affecting nutrient management practices. This paper discusses the practical difficulties of how to use participatory farmer-led st…
Where is the life in farming?’
Hidden livelihoods
Natural resources and their contribution to livelihoods have been widely explored within rural contexts yet have received relatively little attention within urban contexts. However, natural resources can contribute significantly, if modestly, to urban livelihoods in a number of often ‘hidden’ ways. This paper explores these ‘hidden’ livelihoods using livelihoods frameworks to enhance our understanding of the dynamics of urban-based natural resour…
Equity and justice in climate change adaptation amongst natural-resource-dependent societies
Adaptation to climate change and variability
Combating Land Degradation through Participatory Means
This paper examines a community grazing project to rehabilitate degraded land in Swaziland. Using data from interviews, questionnaires, and focus groups, we show that the ways in which participatory, decentralized approaches to natural resource management play out at the local level are closely linked to national-level power structures. The successes and issues that emerge at different stages of the grazing project reflect local socioeconomic pri…
From global politics to local land users
This paper explores the relevance of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and its related National Action Programmes (NAPs) to people affected by land degradation and change in Swaziland. Household data collected from three chiefdoms are examined, together with policy analyses and information from interviews with policymakers and NGO representatives, as the barriers that inhibit successful implementation of the UNCCD at…
Effective livelihood adaptation to climate change disturbance
Learning from the South
Small-scale farmers all over the world face a number of common biophysical and socio-economic challenges. In this paper we draw on data from a workshop held in the UK in 2005, to assess whether experiences in addressing these challenges, as gained in the global South, may be used to inform solutions to similar challenges in the UK. In doing so, we contribute to a growing body of literature that seeks to challenge predominantly North-South flows o…
Adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification
Evaluating Successful Livelihood Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change in Southern Africa
Osbahr, H., C. Twyman, W. N. Adger, and D. S. G. Thomas. 2010. Evaluating successful livelihood adaptation to climate variability and change in southern Africa. Ecology and Society 15(2): 27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03388-150227
Resilient or Vulnerable Livelihoods? Assessing Livelihood Dynamics and Trajectories in Rural Botswana
Sallu, S. M., C. Twyman, and L. C. Stringer. 2010. Resilient or vulnerable livelihoods? Assessing livelihood dynamics and trajectories in rural Botswana. Ecology and Society 15(4): 3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03505-150403
Climate Science, Development Practice, and Policy Interactions in Dryland Agroecological Systems
Twyman, C., E. D. G. Fraser, L. C. Stringer, C. Quinn, A. J. Dougill, F. Ravera, T. A. Crane, and S. M. Sallu. 2011. Climate science, development practice, and policy interactions in dryland agroecological systems. Ecology and Society 16(3): 14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04261-160314
NGOs, elite capture and community-driven development
This article examines the problems of elite capture in community-driven development (CDD). Drawing on two case studies of non-governmental organisation (NGO) intervention in rural Mozambique, the authors consider two important variables - (1) the diverse and complex contributions of local elites to CDD in different locations and (2) the roles that non-elites play in monitoring and controlling leader activities - to argue that donors should be cau…
Flooding, resettlement, and change in livelihoods
Post-disaster development policies, such as resettlement, can have major impacts on communities. This paper examines how and why people's livelihoods change as a result of resettlement, and relocated people's views of such changes, in the context of natural disasters. It presents two historically-grounded, comparative case studies of post-flood resettlement in rural Mozambique. The studies demonstrate a movement away from rain-fed subsistence agr…
Research and Fieldwork in Development
pt. 1. Planning development research -- pt. 2. Collecting and analyzing data -- pt. 3. Presenting and writing up research
What is carbon? Conceptualising carbon and capabilities in the context of community sequestration projects in the global South
Carbon has been described as a ‘surreal commodity.’ While carbon trading, storage, sequestration, and emissions have become a part of the contemporary climate lexicon, how carbon is understood, valued, and interpreted by actors responsible for implementing carbon sequestration projects is still unclear. In this review paper, we are concerned with how carbon has come to take on a range of meanings. In particular, we appraise what is known about th…
Community‐Based Natural Resource Management
Community‐based natural resource management (CBNRM) encompasses both a broad approach to the community management of natural resources as well as a defined project format or program that is implemented through specific policies and practices. Emerging in the 1980s, it was seen as the panacea to conservation and poverty alleviation. However, CBNRM has come under fire recently for departing from its central ethos and even contradicting some of its …
A place-based approach to payments for ecosystem services
We introduce and define a place-based approach to Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES). • The approach incorporates multi-level governance, bundling and shared values for ecosystem services. • The approach is evaluated using case study research to develop the Peatland Code. • Place-based PES schemes may mitigate negative trade-offs between ecosystem services. • They may more effectively include cultural ecosystem services and empower stakeholders…
Geography (22 obras) · Agriculture (16 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Economics (15 obras) · Environmental resource management (15 obras) · Business (13 obras) · Ecology (13 obras) · Livelihood (13 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 obras) · Environmental planning (11 obras)