Co-Management: Concepts And Practices In Vietnam

co-management: concepts and practices in vietnam

These various related terms form a spectrum, or continuum, of collaborative stakeholder engagement in natural resource management as depicted in Annex I: moving from isolated state management (far left), through to transferral of authority and responsibility to a non-state stakeholder (far right). For the purposes of this discussion paper, co-management is defined as a ‘situation in which two or more social actors negotiate, define and guarantee amongst themselves a fair sharing of management functions, benefits, mandates, and responsibilities for a certain area or a set of natural resources’ (Borrini-Feyerabend et al.