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Natural Resource Management Principles

Natural Resource Management Principles. Session Objectives: Identify institutional implications of natural resource management principles Suggest measures to create necessary conditions for implementing the principles. Agenda. Objective of natural resource management Economic principles

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Natural Resource Management Principles

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  1. Natural Resource Management Principles Session Objectives: • Identify institutional implications of natural resource management principles • Suggest measures to create necessary conditions for implementing the principles

  2. Agenda • Objective of natural resource management • Economic principles • Environmental principles • Social principles • Institutional implications • Discussions

  3. Objective of Natural Resource Management Sustainable Use: Use of natural resources in ways that ensure a non-declining stream of benefits for all, especially the poor, without weakening ecological functions of the resources.

  4. Economic Principles • Undistorted price • remove government subsidies for resource use • Cost internalization • resource users pay for external effects • Constant income • estimate & invest user costs to maintain income-generating capacity of the resource Full-cost pricing is the essence of economic principles

  5. Environmental Principles • Sustainable harvest • do not mine renewable resources • Constant stock • increase renewable resources to make up for loss of non-renewable resources • Precautionary principle • safeguard ecological functions in the face of uncertainty

  6. Social Principles • Fair distribution • distribute secure property rights or use rights to the poor • Community management • rely on community institutions for managing their common resources • Critical support • provide info, technology, training, & credits to enable sound resource management

  7. Principles: Illustration

  8. Institutional Implications • What institutional arrangements are required to: • implement full-cost pricing? • ensure sustainable harvest? • prevent irreversibility? • redistribute rights over use of resources • make community resource mgt effective? • What are the difficulties?

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