Assessing natural resource management through integrated environmental and social-economic accounting: The case of a Namibian conservancy

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  • Huon Morton
  • Etti Winter
  • Ulrike Grote
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)396-425
Seitenumfang30
FachzeitschriftJournal of Environment and Development
Jahrgang25
Ausgabenummer4
Frühes Online-Datum19 Sept. 2016
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Dez. 2016

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Local natural resource management in its diverse manifestations holds core to its principles that the marginal and vulnerable households are empowered to manage valuable natural resources to improve social and economic equality and conserve biodiversity. Yet studies aiming to identify the impacts often show inconsistent results. Through constructing an integrated Environmental and Social Accounting Matrix (ESAM), we aim to assess how natural resources are used in different sectors and by different livelihoods, thus delivering different direct and indirect benefits to the community. The study was conducted in Namibia’s Sikunga Conservancy, which manages wildlife and fish resources in the Zambezi region. Our village-level ESAM shows an economic structure that strongly disadvantages remote households and identifies a small sector of the economy that benefits significantly from the use of natural resources. The ESAM approach is able to isolate undesirable socioeconomic developments such as unequal benefit sharing, which hinders community development.

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Assessing natural resource management through integrated environmental and social-economic accounting: The case of a Namibian conservancy. / Morton, Huon; Winter, Etti; Grote, Ulrike.
in: Journal of Environment and Development, Jahrgang 25, Nr. 4, 01.12.2016, S. 396-425.

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