Preface Introduction Co-management of natural resources: the concepts and aspects of implementation Gerard Persoon and Diny van Est Part I Working at local levels: Multiple voices from Asian Communities 1. Co-management of forest resources: the Bugkalot experience Dante Aquino 2. Institutional resilience of marine Sasi, a traditional fisheries management system in Central Maluku, Indonesia Ingvild Harkes and Irene Novaczek 3. Co management in protected areas: the case of Cat Tien national park - SouthernVietnam Gert Polet 4. Exploring the right blend between government facilitative role and farmers' initiative in forest regeneration Paulo Pasicolan 5. Pasture land management in post reform China: grazing on ambiguously owned land Wei Hu 6. Pala'wan managing their forests (Palawan Island, the Philippines) Marieke Hobbes Part II Reflective and comparative approaches to the co-management debate 1. Years of transition in coastal Japanese fisheries, 1868-1912 Arne Kalland 2. Fisheries co management: key conditions and principles drawn from Asian experiences Robert Pomeroy, Brenda Katon and Ingvild Harkes 3. The road to community- based resource management in the Philippines: entries, bends, tolls and dead-ends Percy Sajise, Francisco Fellizar and Gil Sanguiguit 4. Conflicting Boundaries:The role of mapping in the co-management discourse Manon Osseweijer 5. Co production of forests in Andhra Pradesh, India: theoretical and practical considerations Gautam Yadama 6. Imagined models vs historical practices: Tana Ulen and community- based management of natural resources in the interior of Indonesian Borneo Christina Eghenter 7. Biophysical Perspective on co-management of natural resources, with special reference to the Northern Sierra Madre Mountain Region (Philippines) Denyse Snelder, Lilian Spijkerman and Jan Sevink Part III Conclusions 1. Trends in diversity and preferred futures Roy Ellen Index
