Against a background of institutional fragmentation and lack of coordination among the respective role players, the notion of co-management of natural resources has emerged in many countries around the world as the most ...

In South Africa, like elsewhere in the world, the complexities of natural re- source management and the postmodern reality of a fragmented institutional landscape complicate efforts to develop effective institutions for ...

The emergence in the late nineties in South Africa of new environmental governance systems as decentralised sets of formal and informal agreements among diverse groups and organisations in the form of networks and partnerships ...