| Best Practice in Institutional Analysis
Guidelines for analysing institutions with reference to natural
resources research.
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Background |
Understanding
the institutional context is a key component of the Sustainable
Livelihoods Approach. Institutional analysis is therefore an important
part of a broader livelihoods analysis. Institutions are defined
as organisations or sets of conventions, policies or legislation
which regularise social behaviour. They operate at all levels from
household to international, and in public and private spheres.
These
Best Practice Guidelines offer practical assistance for researchers.
They focus on the renewable natural resources (RNR) sector. They
provide an overview of key institutional issues in this sector,
and describe some frameworks, approaches and research tools which
have been developed for institutional analysis.
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Guide to the tool |
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Section
One outlines
the purpose and scope of the guidelines. |
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Section
Two
highlights key institutional issues in renewable natural resources
research. |
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Sections
Three
considers different types of institutional analysis for RNR
research and some methods which may be used. |
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Section
Four and Five review
further research and future developments and offer a list of
suggested reading. |
This tool was written by Harriet Matsaert for the Natural Resources
Systems Programme (NRSP) series: Socio-economic Methodologies for
Natural Resources Research and Best Practice Guidelines (http://www.nri.org/publications/bpg/bpg11.pdf).
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