Transcript The NRM journey - Xavier Institute of Management

The NRM journey
PGPRM 1
Pedagogy
• Learning as ‘Serious Fun’
• How to make learning quicker (collective
learning), (wider), deeper, more enduring
and fun
• Learning by Doing
• Learning how to learn through
assignments, field visits and term papers
• Start, Stumble, Self correct and Share &
listen to others
NRM Modules
• Context and introduction -
• Environment and NRM Basics
• Watershed management
• Field Visit and GIS Training
• NRM and institutions
• Policies and Impacts (through term
papers)
Various classes
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Introduction
Context of NRM
Global environmental crisis
Thinking through the environment
Ecosystems Basic concepts
Films – AD 2048, Drinking the Sky, Village
Republics, Kothapally success story
(watershed of Myrada) did not see
Raincatchers...
Presentations by students
• Energy, forest, water resources, biodiversity and
conservation, Chipko, pollution various forms,
seed balls etc Dhabolkar, carbon trading,
introduction to watersheds ….
• GIS special session
• Field visit to Agragamee
• Mid Term exam
• Motivating professionals for rural India
• Attitudes to learning ..... followed by mass
bunking of class
Immersing in watersheds
• case study of vana samrakshana samiti
• Introduction to watersheds
– what are they, watershed management,
objectives, terms related to watersheds,
principles, benefits etc.
• ICRISAT watershed story (ies) – NRM and
institutional change
• Stakeholder analysis
Term Papers
• Multilayered learning – abstract, term
paper draft, comments, presentations, final
draft....(where is the reading material?)
• water conflicts and debates 5 groups
• NRM general – wetlands, floods,
irrigation etc – 9 groups
• Issues and policies – peoples
participation, sustainable development,
watersheds
Readings shared
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Indian road to sustainability
Motivating professionals for rural India
Combating land degradation and drought
participatory watershed development and soil
conservation – Anirudh Krishna
• Sustaining success and learning from failures –
Anil Gupta
• Delineating the discipline of NRM – manoj
Thomas
• Also Towards Green Villages
Delineating discipline of NRM
• The profile of the NR manager is varied
• NRM involves high level of complexity, many variables
beyond the control of the manager.
• conventionally seen as extension of traditional manager,
now realised that it is a higher objective
• economics is on uncertain grounds. Multiplicity of
objectives.
• Most complicated problems in CPRs and open access
resources.
• Conflict resolution... & cooperation
• the challenge of biodiversity
• Addressing poverty
The Discipline of Natural Resource Management (NRM)
Constituent Disciplines
Physical and biological
sciences
Engineering
Forestry Management
Agricultural sciences
Social Sciences
Levels
Global-national-regionalvillage- community
level Specific resource-integrated NRM
Resource-sociopolitico-economic
Agencies involved
Government
NGOs
For profit private firms
Statutory bodies
International Agencies
Farmers and Individuals
Others
Task Environment
Legal regime
Property rights
State interventions
Policies
Traditions and institutions
International laws
Domain of problems
Managing CPRs
Conflict resolution
Managing other
related needs
Socially nested issues
Biodiversity
Coordinating agencies
Tools and approaches
Range of approaches
Influencing property
rights
Managing community
participation
Innovative approaches
Institutional histories – timelines,
stakeholder analysis
The Discipline of Natural Resource Management (NRM)
Constituent Disciplines
Physical and biological
sciences
Engineering
Forestry Management
Agricultural sciences
Social Sciences
Levels
Global-national-regionalvillage- community
level Specific resource-integrated NRM
Resource-sociopolitico-economic
Agencies involved
Government
NGOs
For profit private firms
Statutory bodies
International Agencies
Farmers and Individuals
Others
Task Environment
Legal regime
Property rights
State interventions
Policies
Traditions and institutions
International laws
Domain of problems
Managing CPRs
Conflict resolution
Managing other
related needs
Socially nested issues
Biodiversity
Coordinating agencies
Tools and approaches
Range of approaches
Influencing property
rights
Managing community
participation
Innovative approaches