Social Aspects of Sustainable Dryland Management Book

	List of Contributors
	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
1	An Overview of Desertification as Dryland Degradation	3
2	Social Dimensions of Desertification: A Review of Key Issues	21
3	The Active Method of Participatory Research and Planning (MARP) as a Natural Resource Management Tool	83
4	Supporting Local Natural Resource Management Institutions: Experience Gained and Guiding Principles	93
5	Departure Points: Researchers, Rural Communities and the Transfer of Technology	105
6	Rajasthan's Camel Pastoralists and NGOs: the View from the Bottom	115
7	Sustainable Growth in Machakos, Kenya	131
8	Natural Resource Management in Pastoral Africa	145
9	Indigenous Peoples, Resource Management, and Traditional Tenure Systems in African Dryland Environments	153
10	Listening to the People: The Use of Indigenous Knowledge to Curb Environmental Degradation	179
11	Protection of Forests and Other Natural Resources: a View from Central America	189
12	Using Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Dryland Management: A Global Perspective	193
13	Gender and Participation in Environment and Development Projects in the Drylands	213
14	Rural Middle Eastern Women and Changing Paradigms	239
15	The Impact of Social and Economic Change on Pastoral Women in East and West Africa	253
16	A View from Within: Maasai Women Looking at Themselves	267
17	Environmental Degradation and Public Policy in Latin America	277
18	Government Policies to Promote Good Dryland Management	289
	Workshop Recommendations	303
	Index	311