Community‐Based Natural Resource Management

Abstract

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 core principles of social justice and socioecological sustainability.