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Poteete, Amy. "How National Politics Affects Natural Resource Policy: The Case of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Botswana" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA, Feb 28, 2007 <Not Available>. 2008-12-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p179990_index.html>

Poteete, A. R. , 2007-02-28 "How National Politics Affects Natural Resource Policy: The Case of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Botswana" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA Online <PDF>. 2008-12-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p179990_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) is a decentralized strategy that has been adopted throughout the developing world. Botswana's version is more decentralized than many and has been portrayed internationally as relatively successful. Despite its international reputation for success, CBNRM has a complicated political position in Botswana. The policy has become a focal point for several distributional struggles. Tourism revenues associated with wildlife have sparked competition between wildlife rich and wildlife poor districts, wildlife communities and District Councils, and District Councils and the national government. Critics of CBNRM have drawn comparisons between divergent systems of rights over wildlife resources and diamonds. The designation of diamonds, other mineral resources, and land as resources for the nation played an important role in building political support for the new national. Suggestions that diamond revenues should be decentralized like wildlife revenues calls into question a founding principle of nation-building and challenges the national government’s main source of revenues. The politics of the situation threaten the survival of CBNRM, but also makes elimination of the program politically inflammatory. Informed by fieldwork in 2004 and 2005, the paper draws out the link between increasing political competition, rhetorical strategies for national coalition-building, and policies affecting CBNRM.

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